The project tries to intervene at the intersection between landscape design and forestry. The idea is to invite and intergrate the locals in the Xumu village in Zhejiang Province in the practice of manipulating dead bamboo canes and planting live bamboo and allowing them to participate at various degrees in the building process of their civic center.
There is a second layer playing with the superposing of mass and void in the project. I was trying to create the visual experience of spatial rhythm.
The project's aurthorship not only belongs to the architect since this is a growing one that never has an end. It is about evolving parctices in construction and their democratic accessibility. As long as the technique exists, the practices as a form of knowledge can be transmitted from person to person and generation to genration. The cooperation of working together hopes to be a transformative force in the community to bring people together again and again.

Site Plan

Section of the Food Hall

Project Plan

Tea House

Roof Detail



Bend bamboo into a space for tea chatting

Interior View of the Food Hall
