MAD Architects' YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten Presents a Playfully Inorganic Landscape

MAD Architects is often driven to tinker with the space between the natural and the inorganic, exploring the roots of heritage and residential design through its builds. The firm's latest creation upholds that ideology, transforming an 18th century Siheyuan courtyard in Beijing into a refreshed space for kids, dubbed the "YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten."Three years in the making, the locale was finished at the end of 2019 and sits next to a senior citizens' apartment, reflecting this old/young ...