Low Cost, Low Technology and Reversibility Construction

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Architects: Big Smallness Studio, Wuhan ADAP Architects

Location: Zhengjia Shan, Qingshi Town, Qichun County, Hubei, China

Design Team: TAN Gangyi Daniel, XIE Long, CHEN Bo

Main Contractor: Local villagers and studio graduate (CHEN Bo, XIE Long, Daniel)

Client: Qian Yi Agriculture (Hubei) Co., Ltd.

Area: 272.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

Low Cost, Low Technology and Reversibility ConstructionThe project is located in Hubei Qichun mountain area, in the Qianyi abandoned primary school farm transformed into a hostel ?Farm inn?on a high post (See UED 2016, Issue 4). There is a vegetable field between the north side of the inn and the hills. With the increasingly frequency of activities of the inn, the farm team began to imagine on this north area which is used to be a sweet potato plantation.
The foundation, structure and roof of the building. Image Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

This piece of land which has good view of the village and terraces, was formed in the period when people excavate the site of the original construction of primary school, and in between of hill and the inn. The program extends through the length of the former hotel, hosting entertainment activities for guests...