Adaptive Reuse of Factory Dormitory in Pingshi Street, Nanjing, China
Pingshi Street, seemingly forgotten by modern urban rhythms, lies quietly in the folds of Nanjing’s historic fabric. Once the city’s most vibrant commercial street—known as "Lantern Market Street" for the Qinhuai Lantern Festival—it echoed with Kunqu opera and bustling trade. Our intervention is not with a single building, but with a neglected urban fragment—reviving its theatrical past and traditional crafts through contemporary design.
The whole research follows five key steps: What is it now? What was it before? What is needed now? What to preserve? What will it become? Through site study, historical review, and user analysis, we formed a holistic understanding of the site and identified key directions for renewal.
The final step, "What will it become?", marks the shift from research to architectural design—where history, space, and culture begin to take form through installation, insertion and intervention.
