The Tourist Center is located just outside Chetian Village (???), on the main road arriving from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province. The stone village, famous for its houses built with local blue-stones, has more than 400 years of history and its population is mainly composed by Miao (?), one of the oldest ethnic minority groups in China. 

© Jingsong Xie / West-line studio

Architects: West-line studio

Location: Shang Che Tian, Huaxi Qu, Guiyang Shi, Guizhou Sheng, China

Design Team: Haobo Wei, Jingsong Xie

Area: 6620.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Jingsong Xie / West-line studio

© Jingsong Xie / West-line studio
The Tourist Center is located just outside Chetian Village (???), on the main road arriving from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province. The stone village, famous for its houses built with local blue-stones, has more than 400 years of history and its population is mainly composed by Miao (?), one of the oldest ethnic minority groups in China. 

© Jingsong Xie / West-line studio

The Village runs parallel to a river and the local traditional architectural style is characterized by single units (stone houses with open air courtyards) repeated in a parallel way. Each unit is linked to the others and all these parallel bands form separated groups.

© Jingsong Xie / West-line...