Architects:THAD

Area :635 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Yingnan Chu, Xinxing Chen

Lighting designer :Professor Xin Zhang design team，School of architecture, Tsinghua University

Project Architects : Yehao Song, Xiaojuan Chen

Design Team : Dan Xie, Jingfen Sun, Yingnan Chu, Tianyu Kuang, Zhihao Huang, Yuyan Xia, Wenbo Yue

Engineers : Zheng Gong, Yue Zhang, Zhongpeng Tian

Construction Drawing : Infinity Junction Design

City : Changheng

Country : China

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Yunzhai Village of Changyuan City in Henan Province, where the project is located, is an ordinary village with typical features of rural area in Central China. During the past decades, the villagers’ well-being has been drastically improved thanks to social development, but a series of social problems emerged, too. For example, the outflow of labor resulted in hollowness in local demographic structure; the traditional bonds of families and neighbors been weakened, with problems of ageing and left-behind children remaining unsolved. Correspondingly, public ritual spaces here, either waning or disappearing, are in dire need of reconstruction. As a result, the village decided to build a community center for public gatherings.