Civic+Cultural

Huaxi Stone Town Bailong Miao Village Folk Complex

This project is located in a  village characterized by typical karst landforms. The local dwellings are built with dry-laid bluestone slabs, with moss and weeds growing between the stones, giving the village a natural and rustic appearance. The project functions as a folk culture exhibition hall combined with village-level administrative and medical facilities. The design aims to explore the spatial order of the village environment through the lens of bodily perception.

Starting from the concept of “body-based construction,” the design emphasizes sensory experience, activating people’s tactile and emotional responses through the site’s unique natural and cultural elements. The architecture adopts a generalized construction method, reinterpreting traditional bluestone slabs to create an emotionally rich atmosphere. The bluestone surfaces exhibit subtle variations under different weather conditions, endowing the building with a perceivable emotional texture.

In terms of spatial composition, the architecture employs a nested hierarchy, inserting several “perceptual containers” into abstract geometric forms. These containers engage with light, sound, memory, and everyday folklore, awakening a bodily sensitivity within the architecture. The stone mass, as a fundamental unit of village construction, also participates in organizing spatial order, forming a construction language that coexists with the village’s ecological and cultural context. Overall, the design emphasizes the interaction between materials, space, and human perception, creating a complex space that embodies both cultural memory and embodied experience.



Location

Guiyang City, China

Size

405m2 / 4,360ft2

Completion Year

2012

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