RuralArchitecture Studio

Wang Shu was born in 1963, Urumqi, Xinjiang. He has master and bachelor degrees of architecture from Nanjing Institute of Technology. In 1997 he established the Amateur Architecture Studio. Currently Wang Shu is professor, director of Architecture Department and dean of the Architecture School of the Academy of Arts in Hanzhou. His recent projects include the Ningbo Tengtou Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Ningbo Historic Museum, Xiangshan Campus of the Academy of Arts( phase I & II ), Ningbo Museum of Fine Art, Hangzhou Vertical Residence and the Library of Wenzheng School of Soochow University. Wang Shu was the recipient of the 2010 Schelling Architekturstifung, and his "Decay of a Dome" for the 2010 Venice Biennale was awarded Special Mention. In 2007 he was given the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture by the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. In 2006 Wang Shu presented Tiled Garden in the China Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, and in the same year, he exhibited in the China Contemporary Architecture, Art and Visual Culture staged by the Netherlands Architecture Institute( NAI ).

In Chinese dictionaries, the characters “爿” and “片” are paired. In other words, they always appear together, sometimes obviously and sometimes in a more concealed manner, but they sketch the basic characteristics of the homes I create.

Hsieh Ying-Chun has been working as a contractor for many years before he went back to be the role of architect. Ever since the devastating earthquake in 1999 of Taiwan, he has been helping people rebuild their homes after nature disasters. His reconstruction project for the Hsao Tribe was noticed internationally. In recent years, Hsieh Ying-Chun has also helped people building their own houses in remote Chinese villages and those who suffered from the Tsunami in South East Asia etc. He was one of the participated architects of Taiwan Pavilion at 2006 and 2009’s Venice Biennale Exhibition as well in the final list of “UN-HABITAT’s Best Practice” award 2009.

I usually give three concepts to my students in their message books: unrefined, awkward, slightly disordered.
Unrefined—Maintaining unrefined stokes in highly skillful painting to demonstrate the sincere, tranquil and unflattering nature of art (Huang Bin-Hung)
Awkward—Expressing real feelings with minimal strokes; getting rid of redundant materials
Slightly Disordered—An unrefined and awkward framework covered by an organic system that is slightly disordered.

Roan Ching-Yueh

Associate Professor & Department Head, Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University Roan Ching-Yueh has curated "Legend of Changan West Road" and "City of Sticky Bacteria：Essentiality of Taiwanese Modern Architecture " in 2002, co-curated with Ann Yu-Chien "The Rumor of China Towns" in 2004. In 2006, he organized the Taiwan Pavilion "Paradise Revisited: Micro Cities & Non-Meta Architecture in Taiwan" for the Venice Architecture Biennale. In the same year he co-curated with Jack M.S. Hsu "“Long Time No See, Mr. Wang Dahong!”

 
Wang Shu ─  Squarely Sphering
The award winning "The Decay of A Dome" in the 12th Venice Biennale was a tersely structured wooden dome. Wang Shu explained that his architectural practice is to make good use of Chinese legacy in today's building as his creative inheritance of tradition. In Taipei, Wang Shu continues his principles of minimum construction and simple dismantling to reduce the environmental burden caused by building. Through applying plain wood and artless construction methods, Wang Shu presents a buoyant and mobile work that nonetheless is elegant. The architect pays his homage to the unregulated structures everywhere in the urban spaces. It is also his response to the ever changing modern cities.

Hsieh Ying-Chun ─  Arcadia in the Back Alley
Back alleys are the obscure spaces between residential buildings whose characters would be dramatically transmuted and greatly enriched by all kinds of innovative usage of people living around. Such diversity and creativity are not seen in the well regulated spaces planned by housing developers. Compared to the lively back alleys, the permitted residences by definition are boring and dumb.

Hsieh Ying-Chun makes use the steel scaffolding tubes that are commonly applied in buildings. He creates a stage of life in the back alley where visitors are led to share the daily experience with locals. This stage could further extend as a platform for the community activities to transform the illegal occupation of back alleys into a project contributed by all.

Perhaps people's imagination that mirrors the truthful urban life and survives from any regulation could be expressed only in the murky alleys.

Ownership structure: cold rolled steel seismic structure \ aerated concrete block \ partial wall to avoid filling the template \ local materials (stone \ wood \ meadow layer)

Construction methods: herders in

Floor area: 60 \ 70 \ 40

Construction period: 50 days

Strategy: Simplify Construction of \ local re-use \ duration control

Times Architecture Magazine’s editor in chief and crew

Early morning on June 11, editor in chief of the Times Architecture Magazine Zhi WenChun, Teacher Dai Chun and Teacher Yan ChinJuan of the architecture department of Southwest JiaoTong University came to visit our No. 15 JiangXi Street studio and to comprehend the follow up projects.

Back in June, 2008 Times Architecture Magazine and Southwest JiaoTong University organized architects and groups around the country to deliberate upon issues relate to the May 12 SiChuan Earthquake reconstruction; they help many groups to activate in the reconstruction projects, and also have been very interested with the works hosted by Hsieh YingChun and the Rural Architecture Studio. Teacher Dai Chun had already been to this studio in July, 2008. Zhi WenChun and Teacher Dai Chun had even visited the cooperative construction project of the Thao Tribe resettlement after the September 21 Earthquake in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.    

Enabling Solidarity into the Steel: Rethinking Innovation from East Asian Cases

Chia-Ling Wu

Received: 28 April 2009 / Accepted: 28 April 2009 National Science Council, Taiwan 2009

What is the exemplary architectural innovation in contemporary East Asia? The skyscraper Taipei 101, or the Watercube in the Beijing Olympic Park? Take a look at this issue’s cover, as EASTS invites you to enter a new world of East Asian innovation based on insights from Hsieh Ying-Chun’s (謝英俊) years of post-disaster reconstruction efforts in rural Taiwan and China.

In September 1999, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Taiwan, killing more than 2,000 people. Several aboriginal tribes suffered most seriously and were among the groups who had the least resources to rebuild their communities. Taiwanese architect Hsieh Ying-chun and his team Atelier-3 Worldwide came to those tribes to help, but he aimed to achieve a vision that went beyond a temporary resettlement. He believed that making new living spaces after a disaster could instill new hopes in a community by promoting such ideals as solidarity, democracy, and sustainability. Hsieh once reflected that “it is indeed the earthquake that gave me the chance to put the theory of green architecture, public participation, and sustainable development into practice” (Hsieh and Roan 2003, 4). Could it be possible to develop a new housing project among the ashes and at the same time empower the local residents, exalt the cultural heritage, increase employment, and restore the ecosystem—all within a limited budget? The answer for Hsieh was a definitive Yes, but the question for us is how was it done?

A technical innovation—the lightweight steel construction—plays a significant role in Hsieh’s inspirational project, whose major elements include “simplified construction” and “open architecture” (Roan 2007). Lightweight steel construction is expensive in some industrialized countries due to the high patent fees for building complicated connecting points. Hsieh, however, was about to reduce the number of connection points to 10%, a feat that considerably cut down the costs of construction. To involve aboriginals and volunteers in rebuilding communities, Hsieh created a do-it-yourself method so that even people without formal training could get their tools to work without too much effort. The flexibility of Hsieh’s invention is further shown in the fact that residents could employ locally available resources such as bamboo, wood, and bricks when building walls, façades, and roofs. Hsieh, thus, inscribes the core values of social relationships—solidarity, public participation, and local knowledge—into bolts, lightweight steel, and his open architectural system. STS scholar Hsin-Hsing Chen (2004) calls this rebuilding effort “the first large appropriate technology project” in Taiwan, for it consciously designs progressive social values into technological innovation and social organization.

Hsieh’s Taiwanese lessons proved critical when similar challenges arose in a new setting. In May 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit China’s Sichuan Province, taking 70,000 lives and damaging three million houses. With the experiences gained from his reconstruction work in Taiwan and previous projects in China, Hsieh Yingchun and his colleagues traveled deep into mountainous areas in hopes of rebuilding the devastated villages. Compared to Taiwan, the scale of the destruction in Sichuan was considerably higher and the financial resources far more limited, but the challenges of preserving ethnic minority cultures, incorporating local labor, encouraging community participation, and protecting sensitive ecology remain the same. The lightweight steel again proved to work well this time. Hsieh points out that this invention serves as a “complex adaptive system” that can meet multiple tasks and goals (Rural Architecture Studio 2009). In Hsieh’s field notes, he observes that while residents in different villages may vary in how to respond to the designer’s blueprint, how they sing folksongs during construction, and how they utilize local materials, the lightweight steel serves as an interface that is flexible enough to enable locals’ diverse engagement and creativity. We choose the newly emerging Yangliu (Willow) Village in Sichuan—one of the projects that Hsieh Ying-chun Architects and Rural Architecture Studio are currently working on—as the cover for the opening issue of the EASTS’s third volume.

Although not as high-profile as Taipei 101 or the Watercube, Hsieh’s postearthquake reconstruction projects over the past 10 years demonstrate an important facet of architectural innovation in Taiwan and China. But more stories need to be told and more questions addressed. How do local residents as users uate these housing projects? How does expert culture transform when place knowledge, local knowledge, and situated knowledge become important during the place-making process? EASTS welcomes investigation into these inspiring issues, so as to help us rethink, redefine, and reflect on the meanings of innovation and expertise.

To celebrate the birth of this new volume, we present our own innovation in a new section called “STS Research in East Asian Languages: Selected Translation.” In addition to providing multilingual abstracts, EASTS seeks to break down the language barrier and enhance the visibility of the achievements of non-English speaking East Asian STS communities through translation. The editorial board formally nominates and selects important STS work for translation. The pieces chosen represent significant contributions to East Asian STS research that have been published in non-English languages like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, but for language reasons have not been available to a wider international audience. We are all aware that relying solely on English publications might lead to a systematic bias in understanding non-Anglophone societies. This problem is particularly severe as much of East Asian STS research is published in languages other than English.

Before the ideal of a multilingual readership becomes common, EASTS seeks to contribute to this endeavor by introducing a selection of influential East Asian STS “classics” to the broader academic community. We hope that this “editor’s choice” section will expand our horizons of the richness of East Asian scholarship. The debut of this new section is Chung-hsi Lin’s “The Silenced Technology—The Beauty and Sorrow of the Reassembled Cars.” This widely read (and possibly the most loved) STS article from Taiwan discusses how the specific socio-cultural contexts shape the production and use of reassembled cars. Lin challenges the mainstream perception that reassembled cars used on sugarcane fields and oyster collection sites are risky, low-tech, and outdated. Through meticulous historical investigation and fieldwork, he demonstrates that they, in fact, display numerous qualities such as efficiency, effectuality, safety, and flexibility in their local context. His work, thus, urges us to question and redefine, once again, what innovation and expertise mean.

In addition to the special issues that EASTS readers may be more familiar with, we joyfully present you four independent papers that form the major content of the current issue. Stepping into the third year, we would like to take this opportunity to announce that EASTS always welcomes independent submissions. The diverse topics covered in this issue range from laboratory study to pharmaceutical regulation, from hygienic modernity in Korea to scientific controversies in China. Still long for more fresh issues and debates? Then, enjoy the book review section, and hopefully, its five reviews will quench your thirst of the work of East Asian and international STS.

References

• Chen, H.-H. (2004). Cong shidang keji yundong jiaodu kan 921 zhenhou xieli zaowu yundong (The post-

September-21-earthquake collective reconstruction movement: a view from appropriate technology). In Y. F. Wang (Ed.), Jishu, wenhua yu jia: Tannan xieli zaowu zhi xingsi yantaohui lunwenji (Technology, cultural and family: reflection from the Tannan collective construction conference proceedings) (pp. 84–98). Kaoshiung: National Science and Technology Museum.

• Hsieh, Y.-C., & Roan, C.-Y. (2003). Wudingshang de shihulan: Guanyu jianzhu yu wenhua de duihua

(Orchids on the roof: dialogues on architecture and culture). Taipei: Ecus Publishing House.

• Roan, C.-Y. (2007). Xie Yingjun yi shehuixing de jieru zhiyi xiandai jianzhu de fangxiang (Hsieh Yingchun

challenges modern architecture with its social engagement). Shidai jianzhu (Time Architecture), 2007(4), 38–43.

• Rural Architecture Studio (Xiangcun Jianzhu Gongzuoshi) (2009). Fuza shiying yu huwei zhuti: Xie

Yingjun jiawu tixi de chongjian jingyan (Complex adaptive system and intersubjectivity: Hsieh’s house building system from the experience of reconstruction). Paper presented at the annual conference of Cultural Studies Association 2009, Taipei. Rethinking Innovation from East Asian Cases

C.-L. Wu

Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

e-mail: clwu@ntu.edu.tw

RECONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION

Cercidiphyllum japonicum Qingchuan TOILET village dam construction to promote the sub-set of sanitary latrines in the affected areas to take root, "to build the toilet," has become the main industry in many organizations.

XIANG SHU BA VILLIAGE XIANG SHU BA VILLIAGE  Cercidiphyllum japonicum Qingchuan dam Old bricks, new tile, a Street

Since the Wenchuan earthquake, the handsome and to thank the team he led have been all over the footprint of more than a dozen villages and towns in Sichuan Province, by virtue of the last decade a large number of accumulated experience, they very quickly to help the disaster areas of the villagers built a growing The more houses, the houses sturdy and beautiful, easy construction and low cost, the villagers happy to say that they have never lived in such a good house.

When residents of a community can be personally involved in the process of construction, it broke the significance of what we usually market-oriented globalization. He can do, you can complete the building mutual aid, to reduce dependence on the market; open architecture is very simple the tools needed, so he is dependent on the tool reduced; the dependence on the monetary system is also reduced. In fact, this is an anti-globalization process.

DOMUS: you hit a lot of houses built, this building that you referred to as "inter-subjectivity of the building," or "open architecture", explain your thoughts? 
Hiseh: our traditional architectural education as the main body is based on the perspective of architects to design the user's lifestyle, users seemed to be down on the ground waiting for the architect's pregnant.

Earthquake-stricken areas have more than 200 million, more than 2000 million people, how can you go from top to bottom in this manner to treat the construction of the user?  They are the object of your services, you do come, however.  So you can only do limited things, but not unlimited.  You only have to do your part, and the rest is open and can be done by the user. More than 2000 million people's creativity, labor, can be achieved.

DOMUS: That is what you do part?  They can play which part is it?

Hiseh: We have to do is an open framework, in this framework, based on the conditions of their own to play.  It's like we traditional structure, it is just a model. We are thousands of years, generations of people living in the house are so covered up.  These chuandou-style structure is changing, but it has a order.  Do we have today is a new "chuandou-style" architecture.

DOMUS: how the people who played it?
Hiseh： We have several to choose the structure to them, they are the basis of this framework can be modified, but also decided to connect a different way, such as the way we use the lock, and he can also choose to use self-tapping screws or welding, etc. and so on.  In addition, he can decide what materials, our designs are ultra-simple, very simple lines, are one-way plan, which is a set of our design language. Cover, we will normally take about them, such as a village to cover a few other villagers to observe, and then they can then teach others to cover very quickly.  This is the traditional way, one or two apprentices or master with a few semi-apprentice. 
There are important social significance. When residents of a community can be personally involved in the process of construction, it broke the significance of what we usually market-oriented globalization.  He can do, you can complete the building mutual aid, to reduce dependence on the market; open architecture is very simple the tools needed, so he is dependent on the tool reduced; the dependence on the monetary system is also reduced. In fact, this is an anti-globalization process. In fact, we should rethink: 9 million farmers with the house why we seem to have nothing to do?

DOMUS: not only house 900 million farmers, a large number of cities in general seem to have a house or a house that had little to do with the architects, architects have almost all the energy spent on a small number of some public building, landmark buildings.

Hiseh: right ah, why?  Why is this so? Non-people in this area we can not imagine so many of our architects are working day and night doing? Now more than 2,000 victims of domestic issues, architects do not even step into the doors, you do not want to step into every step, this is definitely a problem.  Today, our role and Michelangelo the architect of that era do not have much difference in fact, is the service of kings and nobles, a small number of classes.

DOMUS: modernist revolution had been raised to allow construction services to the general public. 
Hiseh: But the revolution was not complete, it had degenerated into.  You can see more short-lived Bauhaus. It disintegrated when a two incense spread to the United States, a spread to the former Soviet Union.  To get rid of by Stalin, and the United States was a capitalist "zhaoan" the. Through industrialization could reduce construction costs so that the situation did not materialize, the former Soviet Union that there will be no pre-fabricated system. Moreover, in our non-industrialized countries, a large number of residential construction is built by hand!  Wang they only try to do something.  The United States looks very beautiful house, is also very cheap, to a certain extent, it succeeded in the industrialized housing, this system in the United States is the most mature. In fact, it is not really cheap, you want to count the real cost, then your dead. Financing system because they are good, everyone can buy a house loans, house prices look very cheap, but you might have in a lifetime loans. no credit If you are out of its financial system, there is no credit, then you may not be living in the house.  Therefore, there would be no blacks in New Orleans live in the house.  Bauhaus end this way.

DOMUS: That is not to say that China is now the architect of the problem is not it?
Hiseh: I think the problem is the architect. Because if China does not have industrialized, and that architects should be thinking on the situation of de-industrialization of how to do the construction, rather than to learn the set of the West In fact, O'Brien was on the "open system", an open system was later turned into systematic production, its background is the standardization of industrial production, of modulus. And we are not industrialized, they should think our problem. Of course, I feel we all can not be like me.

DOMUS: the whole environment, including the construction of education is one such, a Tsinghua University, Tongji or students, from school to come into contact with his environment, education, follow the instructors or fellow students to do so on the project experience, to enable him to form the understanding of the career , it is not likely to come to rural areas to explore. 

Hiseh: ah so we have to revolution. Bauhaus is a revolution in that year.

DOMUS: now there are some attempts to start the construction of schools and education in traditional architecture in different directions, but the basic architecture is still in the exploration of professional and are not in the construction of the social dimension on how far out.

Hiseh:We have "architecture" it?  (Laughter) feet first touch still do not know, do not talk about boxing a (laughter). In fact, say some blame, after all, only the Chinese reform and opening up 30 years. I have always felt that child to learn how to housing, about 500 years, generations of people better, as we live in an apartment that would not sub-housing, do not believe you can look into some apartments, there must be many of them are chaotic, do not know how to use that space.

DOMUS: the house we now live is life only a few decades, some may be 20 years will be removed.

Hiseh: yes ah.  So many broken homes, but it may take a lifetime of savings to buy a house that bad. Not a traditional than what the old house like Zaha Hadid building smart too much.  Traditional architecture we do not know who the architect, which by the way, when people do not know who the architect, the experience can be accumulated from generation to generation, constantly optimize.

 High barriers under the shining days of dazzling white, Xie handsome light up their houses wedge steel Qiang Zhai in those mountains between Han. 
This is Qingchuan city, Village village on horseback, in May in the normal days, "Xie handsome studio rural building" architects of the busy again. Their main job is to help the villagers in accordance with the architectural drawings on inter-frame structure, and sometimes have to take his hand and helped the villagers to improve the substandard size of the length of the steel.
"Although we are only responsible for design, however, and villagers have to contract, there is still risk." ” Design Assistant Yang Pengfei said, "because it is to build their own houses, their money, the villagers have their own idea of the total." 
Xie handsome studio responsible for the basic structure of the main building, but to villagers in the Village, leaving enough open space, light steel structure system for the whole fabric of the process, and local traditional wooden framework of the door wearing a very close, when a basic and well-considered framework established, the local villagers is natural to give it life experience and wisdom.  Lane Village will be spread over the slopes of the original farmers focus on moving, because fewer people and more, each room not only to expand the area of agricultural and homestead expect less waste of space, at the same time to worry about where to raise the livestock."They generally will not rely entirely on our design, but the main structure must listen to us and can not be arbitrary, this is what we signed the basic contents of the contract." 
The mouth of the villagers have to call from Taiwan, some gray hair, character and provide them with steady and guide the design of the architect as "the old Xie" in the villagers, the old grateful to the so-called 8 earthquake resistant structure of the HA-like to them, since after the aircraft is the matter of their own.  Traditional skills to create rich Qiang villages of northern Sichuan in the Han Chinese to create a French actually have their own unique perspective. 
Xie handsome in accordance with the "energy-saving carbon reduction", "third-party house-made" design philosophy, the entrance to the village of high-slope Gao five brothers first built in the local light steel structure house. "Old Xie is the original design so that we can do with bamboo and thatch house facades, which may be why yesterday, not to mention our little bamboo here, even with bamboo wood cut into the mountain walls, rats have to holes. certainly not, so take a brick or cement to wall. "Gao said the boss. A light steel structure built house cost is not particularly cheap, but the disaster at the local brick-concrete structure of all new, pure wooden structure in the housing construction program is the cheapest. 
"Canada Wood Association is trying to house pure wooden structure, the local people a little money in general is willing to build the original brick structure, we have chosen to thank the old program, because it really is the cheapest, I have spent about 50000 built this way on the. "Gao told reporters brothers.50000 money, 1.9 million of relief assistance to the local government funds, money is 30000 Gao loan in the local rural credit cooperatives, the "benchmark interest rate, 3-year, do not easily secured mortgage loan to, but time still to be also. " 
"The old design of the house to thank greatest advantage is that the manual does not require fees, and labor between the neighborhood, not so, since our original house, day 100, but also possession of three meals of rice, a bag of a human hair ' Show the world 'of cigarettes, two bottles of beer, the classic rules, and would like to invite ten month period, it is necessary to more than 20,000 of the 10,000 labor costs. "said Gao brothers. Cost per square meter less than 400 money, about 50,000 of money so that Gao five brothers live in designers from Taiwan to thank the design of light steel structure handsome room.If the idea of in accordance with the Gao brothers, two to three-floor (170 square meters) of the row structure of the Housing simple decoration completed, Gao Brothers have nearly about 80,000, but the money they no longer had Now, the whole family can also live in a simple decoration of the ground floor, second floor, is still exposed steel frame. Gao brothers very confidently say that the "old house to thank the design seems to be able to live a hundred years." However, to cover the house, they come, rain, thunder and lightning, and steel structure will be conducting house?  Although the village building a studio of designers talk to explain to them, "certainly not, we have long made anti-seismic, mine design considerations," Gao brothers or some suspicious looks. 
5 last year? 12 earthquake in the village so that the majority of young people are coming back.  Maoxian the willow in the village of Wenchuan, some took part in the Beijing Olympic Games Bird's Nest construction workers into the home of the post-disaster housing reconstruction process.  Gao brothers had to work in Guangdong and Zhejiang, but now, in order to 25 for all the family to live on their own to build the house, they also abandoned plans to go out this year. 
Home from Beijing, bird's nest and the CCTV building outweigh the migrant workers out of their welder technology licenses, racing to the light steel frame for the home contribute to a housing; in Qingchuan, Kitagawa, the collapse of farmers to the wall smash body out to, in the slack hours of sitting under the eaves, while if the home side fail to see how patiently as polished pieces of broken wall to restore the use of a block of bricks can be recycled.
"China's cities are built them, now they come back to build their own house, we must fully use their strength." Handsome once said Xie. 
Early in August, Xie Yingjun of Maoxian, Wenchuan beginning, Qingchuan and other places to participate in the local post-disaster reconstruction, is now in the construction of dozens of villages from about 500 light steel structure house.  "He is an idealist, but very much understand the art of compromise." This is a handsome man to thank for his aides called "social architect" uation of the agreement.
Despite the collaboration to create a handsome thank and give full play to the enthusiasm of the local indigenous people's "inter-subjectivity" construction mode, but let the people of a region can collectively accept his idea of all, there must be "complex adaptive" for process. 

 "Especially in the Han, Tibetan and Qiang villages gather, Xie handsome and even to take their sense of cultural anthropology to adapt." Handsome thank the team to follow the track taken Shandong Arts and Cultural Development Center love young documentary photographers Jiang To told reporters, "For example, a Qiang village, the village of his most authoritative figure is more than the local address, he is the executor of the local rituals, like Priest or shaman's role, the villagers generally listen to him. where you want to build a house, it is necessary to persuade him to accept this concept first. " 
October 27, 2008, Maoxian Willow Village (Qiang) held a funeral, the village people to participate in "to see them off," to bid farewell to the village was a 73-year-old just coming to the elderly. At 16 o'clock on the 27th, a funeral procession started from the ranks. The village men take turns carrying the coffin, in front of red.  Hosts and the village women, the children were told in the first. The village people, regardless of men, women and children, and running the way, rushed to the hillside, and its specialson shouted.  Xie Yingjun the scenes so that the mainland team of young designers in their deep feelings. “ "Xie had originally thought that the teacher is to help to build a house that is very simple to build the house, materials ready, can play on the plane two days, but did not expect is a question that is more than half a year, often because of such a thing." 
Qingchuan village on horseback in the Village, even though it is mainly a Chinese village, but the handsome team of designers to thank the status of this village may not only geomancer. 

 "They have to wait to build a house can be added to our catalog on auspicious days, in order, such as the auspicious days, dragged on for half a month, said Mr. Feng Shui, there are hundreds of years of traditional construction built to the hill, Qiang buried in the village into the hills to , we must act in accordance with this concept towards the design of housing, location of the house by the villagers have set him to come only after we asked, which is very difficult to change things. "

Rural architecture studio 
In 1999, Xie handsome in "9? 21" after a major earthquake in Nantou County in Taiwan will be its own studio, where the tribe moved to the village, where a question is ten years. The so-called "inter-subjectivity and work together in building a home" is actually thinking of the community building from the local mountain Xie handsome indigenous culture "-for-work" the understanding and application. Xie handsome design in building communities, in addition to local materials, as well as on respect for cultural traditions of ethnic minorities. 
"For example, teachers will be grateful to the local design of a village to retain the ritual space, these elements must be considered now in Sichuan, while in the Sino-Tibetan Qiang between national tradition has been a lot of Chinese, but the local people to culture held up in the traditional period of the matter and has to be fully understood. "love arts and cultural center for the dissemination of the documentary produced for persons said Jiang. Obviously, Xie handsome house, in addition to technology and tenon Mao ethnic minority of Southwest China's Mao mortise technology, Han d mortise different process, it is also "as a cultural wedge" very "stubborn" and "complex adaptive" of Wenchuan, Qingchuan inherent in these regions, as well as building the concept of cultural customs. 
The most typical example of this is to thank handsome "infiltration" into the experience of the village of Maoxian willow, the village is one of the few local Qiang also retain the village language. 
When handsome Xie came to the village and found that they have started to organize post-disaster housing reconstruction, "drawing a line, have been the basis of half-dug." Village of the local village two organizations have in accordance with the villagers out of the collective opinions of opinions planning.  However, "to create a system that is a problem. Like tofu cut like a piece of the house next to the house, a bit like the Government of a unified construction of the district board room." 
Surprisingly, however, after listening to thank the planning intention of handsome design, the whole Walled Qiang people accepted his ideas.  Xie later in accordance with the handsome sum up: only in a very good basis for such an organization where his house was built more easily.Xie handsome in accordance with the planning, with an axis of the village collective will of the region to move the cutting and functional, and set aside a "green belt."  "107 residents in the aftermath of the earthquake, using the form of construction planning to build a new system of ethnic relations." When saying this, the architect of Taiwan with his ideals, but also with a solution of his question problems.

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