Sinkhole Floor Drain, Xingyi City, Guizhou Design, Chinese Stone Architecture, Images
Sinkhole Floor Drain in Xingyi City
Chinese Architectural Development, China ? design by 5V Studio, architects
18 Apr 2017
Sinkhole Floor Drain
Architects: 5V Studio
Location: Yubulu Zhai, Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, China
Sinkhole Floor Drain

“Sinkhole Floor Drain” is a piece of land art that is associated with unique geological feature. The location of the project is in a village in south west china?Yubulu Zhai. Yubulu Zhai is a natural village of Qingshuihe town, Xingyi city, Southwest Guizhou Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China.
It is an ?untouched paradise? in Southwest Guizhou Autonomous Prefecture which is 20 kilometers away from Xingyi down town. The area where Yubulu Zhai belongs to is a place with typical Karst landscape. The village is built in a sinkhole whose relative fall reaches 610 meters. The sinkhole is trumpet-flower-shaped, and numerous century-old buildings are perfectly preserved in this village. Some of the houses are even built directly on native slate without digging deep foundations. Land around the village is fertile and wooded where fertile fields, mountain spring, stone cottages, ancient trees, old well, karats cave, tall bamboos, ancient river, ancient camp and ancient Tea-Horse Road form delightful contrast. This untouched paradise surrounded by mountains is thus formed harmoniously and naturally.

Houses in Yubulu Zhai are built along the...