{"id":96260,"date":"2026-10-29T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96260"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:52:01","slug":"a-2-storey-chongqing-residence-gains-2-half-floors-in-vertical-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96260","title":{"rendered":"A 2-storey Chongqing residence gains 2 half floors in vertical rethink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/28\/016eb85b-0085-41ab-af90-315efe86c6f4_757ad9b7.jpg?itok=WAlTppn4&amp;v=1793176845\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In most homes, the entry opens onto a living room, perhaps a kitchen. Zhou Shu arrives to find her wardrobe and wide-open bathroom just beyond the foyer, with her glass-walled bedroom between them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is no tight city flat but a 2,000 square foot (185 square metre) residence in a leafy pocket on the outskirts of Chongqing, in southwest China. Upstairs are a full-size kitchen, dining and living areas, plus a garden at the top.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This inversion of the conventional domestic plan is only half the story. <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Liu Shuo of Shiye Architects<\/span> also split the original floors into half-levels, turning two storeys into four interlocking planes, plus an accessible roof.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/homes\/article\/3372419\/2-storey-chongqing-residence-gains-2-half-floors-vertical-rethink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most homes, the entry opens onto a living room, perhaps a kitchen. Zhou Shu arrives to find her wardrobe and wide-open bathroom just beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26058,14821,15626,8555,19168,5026,9516],"class_list":["post-96260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-2storey","tag-chongqing","tag-floors","tag-gains","tag-residence","tag-rethink","tag-vertical","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}