Design activates the villages：Micro-intervention construction practices in rural area

The annual UIA-CBC International Colleges and Universities Construction Competition dated from 2016 provides an architectural practice platform that enables students to walk out of their classroom, face the real environment and issues, and implement the full practice from urban to rural, from design to construction, from drawings to buildings. As an important part of China’s rural revitalization plan, a different village is selected as the construction site every year, defining the theme of competition in view of the local environment and characteristics. It let students learn more about the spirit of the place in the actual building, perceive the building space, and the relationship between the building and the site. This article takes two construction works of our university as examples, to study the advanced design, local materials, suitable technologies, and rapid construction for small public buildings in rural area. Based on the principle of micro-intervention, we hope to keep the authenticity of the village and its environment to the greatest extent, and to explore a form of small rural public building, which adapted to the rural public life, local climate and natural environment. We hope to explore the fun of rural public life from the perspective of culture, design and art, especially through the interactive experience, as an entry point to enhance rural vitality, which can inject the power of design into the basic mode of rural production, driving the change and improvement of rural lifestyle and providing a paradigm for rural construction.

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978-1-944214-31-9