Youth Hotel of iD Town, was originally served as one of the dormitory building in Honghua Dying Factory’s residential area. The renovation began with the conversion of the ground level into a public lobby space retrofitting hotel service and administrative program as well as multi-functional public spaces. Firstly equipping the central corridor with new hotel infrastructure to facilitate the new living units, and secondly installing a sequence of prefab steel opening box on the existing facade to create a more dynamic interaction between the building and the surrounding nature. The ground floor functions as a multi-purpose social space with a variety of facilities containing reception, cafe, open kitchen and common space. By a subtle alteration of the original structure this handful of functions dynamically relate to one and other. All these subtle but influential alterations creates a new breath to this once ruined structure. Newly tiled floors and painted walls revive the bedrooms.
