Village Lavatory
- Year
- 2022
- Status
- Built
- Location
- Anhui, China
There are usually no public lavatories in Chinese villages. This project is reconstructed from the villagers' own lavatories. It is a micro-public building serving the village museum, a 500-year-old house redesigned by the same architects team in the neighborhood, The base contour of the building completely follows the demolished one. Through the roof form named "four water return to the hall", the concept of "lavatory" in Chinese traditional culture is expressed: dialogue with heaven and earth. In terms of roof form, there is both expression of language of local houses in Anhui and also the deconstruction and reorganization of modern formal language by disassembling and shrinking towards the site center.
There are usually no public lavatories in Chinese villages. This project is reconstructed from the villagers' own lavatories. It is a micro-public building serving the village museum, a 500-year-old house redesigned by the same architects team in the neighborhood, The base contour of the building completely follows the demolished one. Through the roof form named "four water return to the hall", the concept of "lavatory" in Chinese traditional culture is expressed: dialogue with heaven and earth. In terms of roof form, there is both expression of language of local houses in Anhui and also the deconstruction and reorganization of modern formal language by disassembling and shrinking towards the site center.