Rural Aesthetics of Qingshan Village

During their eight-year residency in Qingshan Village, Rong Design Library and PINWU Design Team realized that China's rural revitalization is a long-term and arduous process. We believe that the highest goal of rural revitalization is to enable people to live and work in peace and contentment.

How can we help rural areas achieve living and working in peace and contentment through environmental protection and local aesthetics? Qingshan Village has innovatively established environmental consultants (Qingshan Village Nature School) and aesthetic consultants (Rong Design Library). Based on Qingshan Village's traditional farming lifestyles, traditional architectural construction methods, and traditional crafts, we explore the design practices of future villages, publicly invite designers and artists to carry out practical projects in Qingshan Village, and promote natural and aesthetic education for rural children.

In practice, we adhere to three rural construction principles: making the best use of materials, using local resources, and practical beauty, as well as two "non-intervention" principles: minimizing intervention in villagers' lives and minimizing intervention in the natural environment. Following the direction of "restoring traditional construction methods and creating with contemporary design language", we have innovatively carried out the protection of rural cultural context and architectural texture in Qingshan Village. In the process of finding the most appropriate paradigm for future villages, we will build a future rural local aesthetic system with local characteristics based on diversified industries.