Students: Wang Bin, Guo Ruisheng
Tutors: Zhou Cong
Project: The Cultural Experience Center Of Miao
School: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shandong Jianzhu University

Architecture itself is a paradox: Although the building has as a real object exists in the environment, but the architect still want the building not so noticeable and gone in the environment. As the disappearance of the building, its most important element is empty, this is an "empty" concept, together with the construction space in order to have different forms, different performance methods.

Temple on the West Village is located in the south of Chang Shan County towns, where the unique pit homes are located. Pit homes close historical ties, geographical characteristics, obviously, known as the "underground courtyard". Pit homes belong to a cave. it is in the flat land pit dug down, and then on the walls of the pit dug caves used as dwellings. Local folk describe their residence characteristics by "see the wood for the trees village, the village but not room, heard but not people".

The design uses an underground cave as the carrier, through the building volume into the ground, combined with the traditional pit homes, the building ablation, and with regional integration, building and between regions obscured, between tangible and intangible, and the presence of absence between line. In addition, our organization into the villages in the original flat texture, retain part of the old cave and explore new cave in fusion how to remove its disadvantages, which reflects its superiority ways to increase the authenticity of architectural experience. Our concern in the design of the traditional houses in the expression of contemporary architecture to explore the relationship between architecture and space, as well as traditional architecture re-application and promotion.