Homestay+

The project begins with a study of a 3,659-square-meter site beside Liwan Lake Park, tracing the dense tourist streets, narrow residential alleys, water edges, and recurring 4.8 × 18-meter housing modules around the site. Rather than treating the plot as an isolated parcel, the design reads it as part of Guangzhou’s historic urban fabric, where crowded streets, courtyard scales, waterfront transitions, and the repetition of slender dwellings become the starting points for spatial reinterpretation.

The design reworks two traditional residential types — the three-story bamboo-tube house and the Xiguan mansion — into a series of guestroom layouts for individuals, couples, and families, ranging from 32 to 58 square meters. Instead of simply inserting hotel functions into historic forms, the proposal preserves the logic of central light wells, side corridors, daylight, and ventilation, carrying forward the inward-looking, transparent, and breathable qualities of Lingnan domestic space into a contemporary short-stay experience.