Project by Jason Li @jasonli11
Mingyangli Residence is an adaptive reuse project sited in a heritage lane in the old core of Daliang, Shunde, a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy and the heartland of Cantonese cuisine. The project preserves the existing Lingnan grey brick shell, timber beams, glass roof tiles, and Republic era detailing, treating them as fixed ingredients rather than obstacles. Within this shell, fixed walls give way to a continuous pleated soft partition system that operates as seat, table, and spatial divider at once. Every room opens to the next through a consistent portal, allowing the system to flow, stretch, and bend across the plan. A single dining room can reconfigure into omakase bar, dim sum hall, banquet round, communal tapas table, or private dining suite. Architecture no longer hosts the meal; it produces it. Each fold rewrites the social and culinary contract of the table.
