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Mountain House in Mist

Shulin Architectural Design

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Staircase between the entrance and the upper floor - Yilong Zhao
Peeking into the reading space inside the shelves - Yilong Zhao
Bookshelves relevant to reading status - Yilong Zhao
Staircase between the entrance and the upper floor - Yilong Zhao

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Learning Space
7.55
7.73
7.12
7.79
7.55
Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
GRAND JURY VOTES
Shortlisted - Learning Space of the Year
8.57
8.58
8.51
8.53
8.55
Client
Hongfu Tourism Group Co., Ltd.
Floor area
156 ㎡
Completion
2018

The book house building is a non-profit public welfare building, providing local villagers with communication space and reading space, bringing them new things that they have never seen in their lives. 

At the same time, it also attracts young people and children to come to this ancient village and make the village more vibrant. Secondly, the architectural design and construction respect the local traditional culture by preserving the spiritual space of the patio, using local materials, working with local villagers, and using the local carpentry. There are no complicated processes, no complicated high-tech materials, and no transportation issues. 

The design follows the important principles of organic, continuous, economical, and local, and use the simplest, most familiar and most local way to design different spaces. I think this is what designers should do.