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Pages Afloat / f-a-n architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Located along the riverbank at the entrance to Huizhou Village of Letters, Pages Afloat marks the beginning of the visitor's journey through the site. Facing a thousand-year-old banyan tree across the water, the installation acts as a spatial threshold, introducing the literary narrative embedded within the village landscape.

Osmanthus Yard / Atelier Wen'Arch

Valeria Silva — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Zhongxin Village, Longmen County, Huizhou, as one of the art projects for the "Nankunshan-Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone (Huizhou) Architectural Art Project" organized by Fengyuzhu. The site of Osmanthus Yard is a marginal terrace situated between the village and the mountain forest. On the west side, a Feng Shui wall from the late Qing Dynasty remains, adjacent to an ancient well and a century-old Osmanthus tree. Connected to this wall are the remnants of a retaining wall winding along the mountain, forming intermittent fragments of the old village boundary. The terrace lies to the east of this old boundary; two former residences collapsed and were repurposed as temporary chicken coops, with traces of old foundations and ruins still visible. To the north and east lies a dense Lingnan forest, where moss and ferns cling to the crevices of the cliff faces. The terrain rises approximately one meter from west to east, terminating at three tall trees at the eastern end.

Old Study in Solitude / Atelier Wen'Arch

Valeria Silva — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Located at the eastern end of Zhongxin Village in Longmen County, Huizhou, this project transforms an old late Qing Dynasty study building into a meditation-themed art space in the village. It serves as a project for the "Nankunshan-Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone (Huizhou) Architectural Art Project" organized by Fengyuzhu. The original building features a U-shaped courtyard layout with a traditional construction technique known as "Gold Wrapped in Silver"—consisting of an exterior grey brick skin and an interior earthen wall—punctuated by staggered window openings. Internally, fragments of wooden mezzanine components remain, sheltered by a traditional timber roof with grey clay tiles.

Tree Tavern & Cave Teahouse / ARC Z Architects + Practice on Earth

Andreas Luco — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Familiar Novelty | Nostalgic Naivety — Under Fengyuzhu's overall curation, the village has been repositioned as the Ancient Banyan Literary Village. As a node within this larger framework, the project needed to do more than produce an architectural expression; it had to balance curatorial narrative, intensified new programs, and the memory of the site. From the outset, we approached the intervention with caution: the two houses still maintained a quiet relationship with the ancestral hall, and their original character deserved to be preserved. Yet the village fabric had already been fragmented by surrounding new villas, while the old houses themselves could hardly support the incoming programs of a tavern and a tea room.

Ancient Banyan Plaza Renovation / Atelier XÜK

Valeria Silva — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Zhongxin Village is located in a mountain basin in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, where a river flows through a valley. The village has a history of over 700 years and is marked by two ancient banyan trees at its entrance. Most existing buildings were built in the 1990s using brick-concrete construction. In recent years, they were uniformly renovated with painted facades and added metal eaves, giving the village the texture of contemporary rural daily life of China.

Xutian Village Community Center / line+ studio

韩爽 — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Xutian sits at the southern foothills of Mount Luofu, a 300-year-old Hakka village. Designated as a pilot under a provincial rural development program, the project transforms an abandoned primary school into a "Village Gateway"—a public hub that activates local vitality within the Nan Kunshan–Luofu Mountain development corridor.

Xutian Market / Multi-Architecture

Andreas Luco — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000

At the foothills of Luofu Mountain, numerous streams formed, with one flowing southwest toward the plains, irrigating the farmlands.The early settlers gathered and settled against the hills, facing the stream, and ancient structures such as Wujingkui and Side Hall still remain today. From the area along Wujingkui and the fengshui-pond, the main peak of Luofu Mountain is visible. Following the launch of the Nankunshan-Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone Architectural Art Project , Xutian Village was selected as our site due to its typical characteristics. It is carved out of the disparate leftover spaces behind the houses of 14 villagers. These spaces are linked along the fengshui-pond to form a continuous, narrow belt over 120 meters long and about 1,000 square meters in area. While sequentially connected, each of these 14 plots exists in its own unique state,currently filled with temporary sheds and toilets built by the villagers.

Noon Repose Pavilion / CLAB Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Background — The Noon Repose Pavilion is located on the bank of a rural river in Huizhou, a city in southern China, along the scenic route encircling Nankun Mountain and Luofu Mountain. Huizhou was once a place of exile for the Northern Song scholar Su Shi. During his years there, exile did not result in withdrawal from life, but rather intensified his attention to its everyday rhythms. In his writings, he identified what he called the "sixteen pleasures of life," one of which he described as "resting at noon on a simple rattan pillow." The pavilion takes its name from this phrase. It is not intended as a nostalgic reference, but as a way of anchoring contemporary experience to a different understanding of time—one that allows for pause, slackening, and repose. What is recalled here is not a historical figure, but a mode of living that remains possible in the present.

Su Dongpo’s Pleasures at Banhu Ridge / AOMOMO Studio, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Valeria Silva — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

The Site, A Poetic Dwelling Woven by Arcs - The post station is nestled at a hairpin bend of Banhu Ridge, where the site conditions are highly challenging: adjacent to a highway on one side and flanked by steep slopes and dense bamboo forests on the other. By cleverly leveraging this unique terrain, the building unfolds along the curve of the bend, not only conforming to the alignment of the highway but also resolving the elevation difference of the steep slopes through cantilever design. The natural barrier formed by the surrounding bamboo forests endows the post station with a serene ambiance of "being hidden in the mountains", while the golden trumpet tree piercing through the roof serves as a visual focal point, infusing vitality into the rugged landscape.

Resting Loop with Views / HCCH Studio

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

Resting Loop with Views is located on a platform surrounded by Mount Luofu. The site is situated between the highway and a parallel river, originally serving as a buffer zone and a parking area at a sharp turn. The pavilion serves as a rest stop and vista point for cycling enthusiasts, offering services for parking and beverage.

Xuebei Home / Republic Construction Architecture Studio

Andreas Luco — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

"Xuebei Home": The Native Homeland in an Urban Village，This project involves the reconstruction of a 44-square-meter collapsed ancestral home in the old city of Qiaodong, Huizhou.

The Grand Canopy / MLA+

Andreas Luco — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Xialang Village, and the village lives up to its name – the Lanshi River meanders down from the folds of Luofu Mountain, flowing past the site and stirring up layers of waves. Our first site visit took place at the end of the Spring Festival, but winter is not the "wave season" for Xialang. Both the water volume in the dry season and the number of visitors in the off-season seemed to still be rousing from their winter slumber. From snippets of conversations with local residents, we learned that unlike the loneliness we saw before, every summer, thousands of tourists flood here to wade in the stream and escape the heat – Xialang Village truly "lives off the waves".

Floating Canopy Grove / People's Architecture Office + Ziwei Xu

Andreas Luco — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A rest stop for bicyclists, with café and floating canopies within native woodland—blending architecture, art, and ecology. Floating Canopy Grove is an architectural intervention in the forest—an ensemble of small public structures that bring together architecture, art, and nature to create a place of pause and reflection for bicyclists.

Five-Finger Pavilion / YXDesigners

Andreas Luco — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Building a Station for "Boluo Sea" — The Xiangang Reservoir at the foot of Luofu Mountain in Boluo County, Huizhou, is surrounded by lush mountains and forests. Its vast water surface has earned it the nickname "Boluo Sea." The 27-kilometer loop road around the lake is designated for non-motorized vehicles only, and is typically bustling with cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians. However, a lack of existing stations means there are few places to stop and rest.

Moon Pavilion / Atelier Guo

Andreas Luco — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The "Moon Pavilion" was conceived in response to an ancient Chinese verse depicting a poet, intoxicated and smiling amid a field of flowers. Rather than translating this imagery literally into architectural form, the designers used an abandoned greenhouse as their point of departure, layering onto it abstractions and recombinations of spatial and figurative motifs—water, moon, flower, and boat.

Flower Room / Office for Roundtable + JXY Studio

韩爽 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Flower Room is an intimate dialogue between elements of nature. Nestled at the intersection of the countryside and the forest in Huizhou, China, it forges an ecological framework of care, becoming a micro-laboratory of symbiosis between plants and insects. Unlike conventional greenhouses that manufacture closed and controlled environments, Flower Room is posited to be open and porous, allowing sunlight to dance, rain to flow, and wind to bring shifts in micro-climate, along with birds, bees, and butterflies to wander within.

Floral Wander Loop / DL Atelier

Valeria Silva — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located on the banks of the Tiegang River in Longtan Town, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province. A thousand years ago, the renowned Northern Song literary giant Su Shi was banished to Huizhou and might have paced back and forth along this very river, drawing on the Lingnan landscape and customs to pen his "Sixteen Joys of Life in Huizhou." A millennium has passed, and people today have drawn inspiration from Su Shi's "Sixteen Joys of Life in Huizhou" to build sixteen pavilions along the circuit road between Nankun Mountain and Luofu Mountain. These pavilions form a collection entitled the "Nankunshan-Luofushan Rim Pioneer Zone Architectural Art Project". Our project "Floral Wander Loop", is one of these pavilions—the Tiegang River Pavilion.

Half-Mountain Cloud Station / Qing Studio + Li Nu

Andreas Luco — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Located at the foot of Nankun Mountain in Huizhou, Guangdong, Half-Mountain Cloud Station serves as a key node in the "Two-Mountain Architectural Art Program". Inspired by Su Dongpo's "Sixteen Joys of Life in Huizhou", specifically the verse "viewing mountains after rain from a tower", the project responds poetically to the delicate tensions between city and nature, memory and future. Nestled within a mountainous forest, three lightweight constructions pose three quiet questions to the landscape. These constructions neither occupy the center nor dominate the height, rather, they find their own order within fault lines, crevices, and along the shifting path, transforming topographical undulations into a rhythm of space. The three constructions—Mountain Post, Hometown Pavilion, and Cloud Pavilion—are like gentle knocks on the door of time, initiating a dialogue spanning millennia and a journey cradled by nature.