Village Opera / IILab.

Cultural backgrounds: Rural Revitalization, Rural Construction and Human Intervention - Modern society has released people from the contract with their land, and the human heart is no longer bound to the earth. When people are no longer attached to the land for granted, villages face the dilemma of what shall it use to grow and retain people. With the rapid development of cities, the countryside has become a selfless supplier of production factors such as land resources and human capital. Those villages that are not rich in arable land, like Beigou Village, can only export young and middle-aged labor to the outside world. This loss of population desertified the land and dilapidated dwellings. What cannot be bypassed in revitalizing the countryside is to reverse this one-way flow of people from the village to the city, allowing people to return from the city to the village, whether it is for short-term consumption or long-term living and working.

Village Opera / IILab.
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  • architects: IILab.
  • Location: Beigou Village, Huairou, Beijing, China
  • Project Year: 2022
  • Photographs: Weiqi Jin
  • Photographs: Courtesy of IILab.
  • Area: 660.0 m2

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