House G / Interval Architects

BackgroundThe countryside of China has in recent years undergone rapid changes due to the national policy to encourage development of rural areas.  Large amount of boutique hotels, B&Bs, tourist centers, Instagram-able cafes, bookstores were erected amidst the beautiful scenery of China's suburb.  These tourism-driven projects generally existed as products that add values to developers' investments and depict a rural utopia.  They have recently become the typical model of rural rejuvenation in China.  Contrary to this typical and utopian model, House G is an atypical mode of rural intervention in the way that it is an architecture designed for a local family, rather than for investors.  The design is honestly based on the true and fundamental needs of users and their living experiences.  It is a house that reflects the daily domestic lives and activities of the family, as opposed to be a spectacle inserted in the suburban landscape.