Temporary community services center of Yuanheguan village—Continuation of abandoned site 元和观村临时村委会———废弃工地的新生

The special Economic zone of Wudang Mountain is developing the bed and breakfast (B&B) industry. Yuanheguan village has become a prioritized village because of its prominent location which is so close to the Wudang mountain’s scenery attraction. The current village service center is now located in an area where is planned to build the reception center of a village hotel. As an important part of the overall development, a rapid construction process is requested. After visiting and researching the site in the village, we proposed to build a temporary community center on the plot which is abandoned for years, also allowing rapid construction work and an upgrade of the adjacent abandoned area. An irregular column network exists on site. Our strategy for this project is to design a building based on those existing columns. New timber beams are first connected with these existing columns. Clustered columns are then added on top of the existing columns by using the “cluster wooden post” technique. The open space we created in this new community center not only offers the village committee an open working atmosphere but also makes the building thoroughly recyclable and reusable.

武当山特区在发展民宿经济，元和观村紧邻景区入口成为优先试点的村落。现村委会位于将要被改造成民宿接待中心的片区。村委会的腾挪，成了整体改造必须要做的工作。新建一个村委会的建设需要很长时间，如何快速的建造成为一个重要议题。通过对于村落的调研观察，建议将原来荒废已久的区域改造成村委会，可以极大的节省时间，而且可以很好的更新废弃片区。遗弃工地留有无规律的柱网，根据这些现有的柱子，连接新的“木梁”，在笨重的混凝土柱子上生长出的“集束木柱”，增加必要的封闭和围合，得到一个新生的开放空间，让村委会有开放社区状态，也满足日后的功能再转变利用。