Tangzhuang Village Community Centre, New Yunnan Building, Rural Chinese Architecture Photos
Tangzhuang Village Community Centre, Yunnan province
13 December 2021
Tangzhuang Village Community Centre
Architect: SHEN yue
Location: Tangzhuang village, Yunlong County, Yunnan Province, China

One of the 2021 Brick Award winners
Tangzhuang Village Community Centre Building
Located in Tangzhuang village in Jiangsu province that is surrounded by dense waterways, Tangzhuang Village Community Centre carries a complex mission to not only link the city and countryside but also revitalize the less developed rural land. With its design rooted in the region?s traditional culture, the building is built to create a rich cultural activity space for villagers and tourists, to boost neighbourhood relations, and to alleviate the current situation of rural population loss.
The project interprets the unique life atmosphere and a sense of historic belongs residents in Tangzhuang Village in a contemporary manner. Composed of a group of buildings from one story to two stories high, the Village Community Centre mix uses fair-faced brick and wood as the representation of the humanistic environment and nature.

Black bricks as the most extensively used material in the village reflect the history of Tangzhuang?is mainly used on the first floor. The upwards sloping roofs, grey tiles, tessellated flowered wood doors, embedded red bricks, hollow brick walls, and corbels all together with courtyards and ...