Established in 2017, Hapitat Architects is a Beijing-based multidisciplinary design studio founded by Li Weihan (alumnus of the Technical University of Munich's School of Architecture, Germany) and Xiao Luran (graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia). As an open collaborative team, the studio places ecological and social sustainability at the heart of its practice.
Guided by a design philosophy rooted in locality and openness, Hapitat Architects prioritizes the dynamic interplay between space and time, emphasizing how design actively engages with the evolving context of a site. Their work explores the enduring transformation of environments, advocating for solutions that remain sensitive to both natural and societal narratives.
By adopting an objective yet progressive approach to environmental construction, the studio bridges the relationship between nature and human communities. Their methodology focuses on incremental, context-driven interventions that foster resilience and adaptability, ensuring designs remain responsive to the ever-changing fabric of landscapes and societies.
Hapitat’s projects reflect a commitment to creating spaces that harmonize ecological integrity with cultural relevance, redefining sustainability as an active dialogue between place, people, and time.
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峡谷中的乡村教室，北京
Nestled in the narrow valley, the rural classroom follows the mountain's contours, adopting an extended, flowing form. The design treats walls and roof as a unified three-dimensional whole, creating varying mountain-like silhouettes from different perspectives. Along the mountain path, multiple entrances connect diverse spaces, seamlessly integrating with both near and distant landscapes, inviting villagers to discover and enter freely at any time.
Creativity serves as the project's core educational offering, inspiring both individual and collective growth while fostering village-based innovation. As a public initiative, it cultivates villagers' creative capacities, promotes educational equity in rural areas, and functions as a cultural tourism destination - ultimately enhancing the vibrancy of public community spaces.
一间乡村教室匍匐在狭长的山谷中，顺着山的状态，成一种绵延的形式。设计将外墙和屋顶看作统一的三维整体，在不同的角度可以看到不同的山一样的形状。在上山的小路边，有几个不同的空间入口，连接着不同的地方，与远近的环境景观，让村民可以随时看到，随时走进。创造力作为该项目提供给村民知识的学习方案，启发个性与集体，激发乡村内容及创新导向的力量。公益性的培养村民的创新能力，维持乡村教育公平性，同时作为民俗村落的旅行目的地，提升公共文化空间的活跃度。
Year of Completion: 2024
Client: Shandongzhuang Government
Photographers: QY, RY
Location: Beijing, China
Book Retail Complex, 23 Chahuayuan Road NANNING
茶花园路23号图书零售综合体，广西南宁
Design highlights: As a book and merchandise outlet, the design concept focuses more on the customer's shopping experience and memory in the venue. The design takes the experience of wandering in a Chinese garden and substitutes it into the overall space design. This is because the Chinese literati gardens are concerned with seeing the scenery at every step and gaining a sensory experience in a leisurely manner. The focus in this design process is to allow customers to linger and wander instead of passing through. By integrating the products with the walls and using the original architectural framework to divide the space in an organic form, customers can have a different spatial experience in different product areas.
作为书与商品的卖场，设计概念更多的关注顾客在场地中的购物体验与记忆。设计把中国园林中游走的经验，代入到整个空间设计中。因为中国园林关注的是步步见景，闲庭信步中获得感官经验。在此设计过程中的重点是让顾客停留、游走代替通过。将产品与墙体融合，利用原本的建筑框架以有机的形态进行空间分割，让顾客在在不同的产品区域，获得不同的空间感受。
- Area: 2146 sqm
- Project year: 2020-2021
- Client : Guangxi XinHua Book Co.
- Location : Nanning, Guangxi, China
新社区校园，北京
As a definition of a new community campus, this project explores more about the environment in which people can live together. In the spatial vision, the structure of a tree forms the centre of the neighbourhood and activity. The enclosed houses and outward-facing spaces, inspired by rural settlements, form a clear spatial structure. The building skin and the traditional seated tables and chairs simultaneously act as a medium of communication, evolving the community form on the site and allowing the operation of various activities to be attached to the spirit of the place.
作为新社区校园的定义，项目对于人与人之间的相处环境做了更多的探索。在空间视觉中，一棵树的结构构成邻里与活动的中心。从乡村聚落的灵感中发展出的围合的房屋与外向的空间，组成了清晰的空间结构。建筑表皮与传统的围坐的桌椅同时作为交流的媒介，演化出场地上的社区形态，也让各种活动的运营附着在场所的精神中。
- Area: 1000 sqm
- Project Year: 2019
- Client: BIFT University
- Location: Innovation Park, Zhongguancun,
- Chaoyang District, Beijing
- Visual Design: Mint Design
Chengdu, Public Space
成都马鞍街道公共空间改造
The Ma'an Community is located in the Simaqiao Subdistrict of Jinniu District, covering an area of 0.436 square kilometers. It is home to 10,800 households and over 26,760 permanent residents, making it a typical aging-structure community. The market consists of five or six interconnected narrow streets on Ma'an North Road, where hundreds of vendors and farmers sell vegetables. Many of the vendors relocated from the former Caojiaxiang Market, with some operating in storefronts while most set up stalls along the streets. The redesigned Ma'an streets now feature vertical greenery and benches where residents can rest and socialize.
马鞍社区位于金牛区驷马桥街道，辖区面积0.436平方公里，常住居民10800户，26760余人，属于典型的老龄结构社区。菜市是马鞍北路五六条相互连接的狭窄街道组成，这里有数百家商家、菜农卖菜，商家很多是从原曹家巷市场转移过来的，部分商家有门店，大部分商贩、菜农沿街摆摊。重新设计的马鞍街道，设置了垂直绿化，安置了可供居民歇脚交流的长凳。
- Area: 436 sqm
- Project Year: 2021
- Client: Jinniu District, Chengdu
- Location: MA'AN, Jinniu District,Chengdu
Substation Gallery, BEIJING
电站美术馆，北京
Occupying 600 square meters with three buildings and two courtyards, the Substation Gallery was transformed from a village substation that once served local residents. The site's unique position at the village entrance carries symbolic significance—much like the traditional big tree that historically marked rural gathering points. With its open courtyards and vernacular aesthetic, the completed gallery feels familiar rather than alien to villagers, becoming a public space organically rooted in its context. From the outset, the design strategy consciously avoided monumentality. Instead, it adopted a humble posture—a spatial manifestation of collaborative efforts between village administrators, local residents, and architects. The gallery emerged as a starting point for community interaction and a demonstration of possibilities. It represents the first step toward cultivating new local identities and potentials—not as a memorial structure, but as an open invitation for gathering, illustrating how context-sensitive architecture can gradually strengthen the relationship between people and place.
电站美术馆位于平谷鱼子山村村口，占地600平米。美术馆的出现是对村庄节奏的安静回应，由废弃的小变电站改造后，成为村口的文化中心。保留了老房子的历史记忆，同时加入现代化的功能，创造一个村民聚会，开展乡村文化活动的场所。 这个画廊不会宏伟壮观，而是一种姿态，由乡村管理者、村民和建筑师并肩工作的共同努力而产生的空间。电站美术馆成为一个起点，一种与社区互动并展示可能性的方式，是一个让人们聚集的邀请，展示了建筑在现场设计的情况下，如何慢慢在加强人与地方之间的关系。
- Area: 600 sqm
- Year of Completion: 2023
- Client: Shandongzhuang Government
- Events: CCE Curatorial Center
- Location: Beijing, China
Er Dui Qiao Bus Stop
二队桥公车站
The design employs a minimalist steel-and-polycarbonate canopy structure, elevated slightly above the original bus stop footprint. Its translucent roof filters sunlight into dappled patterns reminiscent of tree shade, consciously evoking the nostalgic ambiance of a traditional village gathering spot beneath an old tree. Low wooden seating wraps around the station’s perimeter, encouraging lingering without obstructing pedestrian flow. Crucially, the open-sided design maintains sightlines for bus operations, preserving the station’s functionality while enhancing community safety through passive observation—a subtle yet effective form of "eyes on the street."
作为重要的乡村交通枢纽，“二队桥公共汽车站”在原来只有一个不锈钢车牌的基础上，使用轻型建筑结构，改造成了村里老人在这里晒暖，打盹，观察游客和路人的地方，团队戏称为“乡村信息点”，让村里老人有遮风避雨的户外空间，既不打扰到别人，又让乡村更加安全。就像一个过去的村口大树下，老人们聚在一起闲聊的地方。
- Area: 600 sqm
- Year of Completion: 2023
- Client: Shandongzhuang Government
- Location: Beijing, China
建立于2017年，Hapitat是位于北京的一家多学科设计工作室。创始人李伟浛毕业于德国慕尼黑工业大学建筑学院，肖璐然毕业于墨尔本大学艺术学院。作为一个开放的设计团队，生态社会永续是他们始终关注的核心，依靠地方性，保持开放性的设计策略，关心空间时间的持续性变化，强调设计始终活跃在场地感知之中。使用客观视角下循序渐进的环境建造方式，处理自然与社会之间的联系。
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