Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2019

A–2
This project tackles a current social issue within the urbanisation
process in China – the increasing urban-rural disparity.
Currently the living conditions in large parts of rural China are
poor. One such place is Dongziguan Village in Fuyang Hangzhou,
where most of the farmers still live in the aged housings of various
states of disrepair. The local government decided to fund an
exemplary affordable housing project in the village with the aim
of improving the living conditions.
During the design process, the architects conducted investigations
and meetings to communicate with different families
of the relocalised farmers for first-hand information on their
living habits. The intention was to organise the buildings in the
vernacular style of the courtyard typology, a traditional local
morphology. The design of the courtyard makes it vary into four
prototypes, which can then be developed into clusters, eventually
growing into a larger rural settlement.
The layout tries to balance traditional rural lifestyles with highquality
modern living conditions. The design is not a carbon-copy
of local historic buildings, but instead abstracts and refines the
features of the traditional local architecture into a contemporary
syntax. The design team also strived for the best building quality
within a very low budget whilst exploring contemporary ways of
representing local traditional architectural characteristics.
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