The Suiyuan Elderly Care Center facade renovation in Beijing’s Fangshan District gave an existing public welfare complex a two-tone red, brick-pattern exterior. This source-checked case record separates the formal project timeline and building scale from LOPO’s dated product archive and preserves all five complete project photographs.
The facility’s elder-care use is project context only. It does not prove any fire, health, thermal, durability or safety performance for the cladding; current requirements must be checked against item- and assembly-specific evidence.
- Formal project
- Beijing Suiyuan Elderly Care Center; also reported as Fangshan District Social Welfare Center
- Location
- Fangshan District, Beijing, China
- Project route
- Existing publicly built complex renovated for private operation with Beijing Vanke
- Public preview
- Completed and opened for visits in September 2018
- Operation
- Trial operation from May 2019; formal opening 20 August 2019
- Public/operator scale
- Approximately 50,000 m² site; 40,000 m² building area; seven buildings and more than 700 beds
- Design attribution
- TDS (Tsushima Design Studio); Tsushima Toshio as lead, supplier-reported in 2021
- Archived product
- LOPO flexible brick slips in two red shades; 60 × 240 mm; 2.5–3 mm thick
- Facade quantity
- Area and piece count not published in reviewed records
One project, several names and three dated milestones
A Beijing municipal-government article published on 22 August 2019 calls the project Beijing Suiyuan Elderly Care Center and says it was also known as Fangshan District Social Welfare Center. It reports that the centre was completed and opened to visitors in September 2018, began trial operation in May 2019 and formally opened on 20 August 2019.
These dates describe building readiness, preview and operation—not a documented facade installation programme. The reviewed sources publish no facade design year, installation start, completion certificate or handover date for the brick-slip work, so none is invented here.
The government record describes the centre as a large government–enterprise cooperation project, with a portion of beds allocated through the district civil-affairs authority and the balance operated socially by Beijing Vanke. LOPO’s later supplier archive says the site had previously been used for a social-welfare project and that the existing complex was redesigned and renovated for the new operation.
Team credits with a clear source boundary
The LOPO company archive dated 17 March 2021 credits TDS (Tsushima Design Studio) as architect and Tsushima Toshio as lead architect. It names Beijing Vanke Happy Home Elderly Service Co., Ltd. as client. These are supplier-published credits; no reviewed first-party design-studio project sheet independently confirmed the complete team.
Public owner/operator route
Government reporting supports an existing public welfare complex and a cooperation model with Beijing Vanke for operation. It does not publish a construction-contract team list.
Supplier archive
LOPO’s dated record supports its product identification, two red shades, archived dimensions and design/client attribution. It is not a signed supply contract or completion record.
Unverified roles
No reviewed source names the local architect of record, landscape architect, facade consultant, main contractor, adhesive/system supplier or brick-slip installer.
The photographs show the completed exterior and grounds, but they cannot allocate design, engineering, procurement or installation responsibility. The replacement therefore does not expand LOPO’s role beyond the dated company record identifying LOPO flexible brick-slip products.
Keep site, building, landscape and cladding records separate
The 2019 Beijing government article reports a 50,000 m² site, seven buildings, more than 700 beds, approximately 4,000 m² of public amenity space and approximately 16,000 m² of landscaped space. The current Beijing Vanke elder-care project page likewise lists a 50,000 m² site, 40,000 m² building area and more than 700 beds.
LOPO’s 2021 supplier archive instead lists 26,000 m² of land and 33,000 m² of above-ground construction. The reviewed records do not harmonise their plot boundaries or area definitions. The smaller supplier figures may describe a different accounting boundary, but that is an inference and is not presented as fact.
| Value | What the source calls it | Use in this case record |
|---|---|---|
| 50,000 m² | Site/land area in public and current operator records | Project-site context only; not building or facade area |
| 40,000 m² | Building area in the current operator record and copied 2021 article | Building scale only; not cladding quantity |
| 33,000 m² | Above-ground construction area in LOPO’s 2021 supplier archive | Retained as a separately defined supplier figure, not substituted for gross building area |
| 26,000 m² | Land area in LOPO’s 2021 supplier archive | Retained as an unresolved supplier boundary, not substituted for the 50,000 m² public-site figure |
| 16,000 m² | Landscape/garden space | Landscape context only |
| About 4,000 m² | Public amenity/supporting space | Interior/common programme context only |
| Not published | Flexible brick-slip facade area and piece count | No quantity is inferred from total building area or photographs |
What the dated product archive actually establishes
LOPO’s 17 March 2021 retrospective identifies a flexible brick-slip product in two red shades, with a nominal face size of 60 × 240 mm and a reported thickness range of 2.5–3 mm. It describes installation over walls treated for crack resistance. The archive does not publish an item/model code, colour codes, finish code, facade area, number of pieces, adhesive, reinforcement, substrate build-up, junction drawings, test reports or warranty.
The close view below supports the visual record: slim red units, grey joints, a running-bond arrangement and visible shade variation. It does not establish the hidden build-up, material classification, dimensional tolerance, bond strength, fire classification, water behaviour, emissions, thermal contribution, service life or maintenance interval.
- current item/model, material declaration, face dimensions, thickness, finish, colour codes and approved range samples;
- surveyed substrate condition, preparation, levelling, reinforcement, adhesive/bedding, joint, corner, opening and movement details;
- project-specific quantities by item and colour, special pieces, waste, spares, batch traceability and replacement strategy;
- evidence required by the project jurisdiction for the exact product and complete wall build-up, without inferring it from this building’s use;
- full-scale mock-up, visual acceptance criteria, adhesion/installation checks and documented responsibilities; and
- access, cleaning, inspection, repair and maintenance requirements for the installed elevations.
Use LOPO’s current Terracotta Tile page only as a product-family starting point. Confirm current availability, identity, drawings and evidence for the proposed system rather than treating this 2021 archive as a reusable specification.
Plan a brick-pattern facade renovation
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