The Split House is approximately 450 square meters, it is part of the developer Pan Shi Yi's Commune by the Great Wall project.
Concept design: two symmetrical houses joined by a glass bridge basically it is Conceived as a single volume split in two, wherein the house hugs the hilly ground in terraces and forms a generous but intimate and private courtyard.
Yung Ho Chang (Chinese: 张永和; pinyin: Zhang Yonghe) is a Chinese-American [1] architect and the Head Professor of MIT Architecture.
He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before moving to the US. Then he received his M.Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley and taught in the US for 15 years before returning to Beijing to establish China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. He has exhibited internationally as an artist as well as architect and is widely published, including the monograph :
Perhaps China's most internationally acclaimed architect,
Yung Ho Chang is particularly concerned with architecture's role in
expressing and reflecting the indigenous culture. He advocates the wide
use of bamboo as a building material in Chinese urban design, as put
forth in his Bamboo City, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2000, but
while he focuses attention on the changes taking place in Beijing, he is
mindful of the globalizing context in which the city is developing. In
the past decade, Chang and his Atelier FCJZ (fei chang jan zhu, or
"unusual architecture"), which he founded in the early 1990s as
Beijing's first private architectural firm, have created a wide range of
intellectually provocative urban projects in China that continue to
receive acclaim.
