Yucun Impressions Youthful Library / SJTU School of Design – Du Chunyu workforce
Textual content material description supplied by the architects. Yucun Impression Youth Library is located in Anjiyu Village, Zhejiang, the birthplace of the “two mountains” thought of “inexperienced water and inexperienced mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains”. The two preserved manufacturing facility buildings bear witness to the inexperienced enchancment path of Yucun from “industrial birds” to “ecological pastoral”. The enterprise was formally achieved in June 2022. After its opening, Yucun Impression Youth Library integrates various capabilities to show into most likely essentially the most dynamic and creative rural place.



“Yucun Impression” reactivates the agricultural industrial heritage buildings and reintegrates them into the financial enchancment of rural areas inside the ecological interval with the memory of the financial interval, with a purpose to point out the open and inclusive enchancment perspective of China’s rural areas beneath the background of rural revitalization approach. Yucun’s world affiliate program has attracted additional youthful entrepreneurs to affix, bringing cultural collision to the countryside, which moreover makes rural public buildings need to have additional superior capabilities and further inclusive cultural values.

The renewal of the establishing focuses on the continuation of the collective memory of the world, starting from the pastoral constructing of memory areas, using the crops planted on the positioning to repeat the texture of the distinctive manufacturing facility establishing, Tian Wei Avenue continues the transportation road of the earlier manufacturing facility establishing, people seek for the memory of the earlier manufacturing facility establishing on Tian Wei Avenue, and browse the earlier of Yucun.

The establishing adopts the renewal strategy of “combining assure and use”, which retains the distinctive memory of the establishing’s amount and window opening methodology, and the enclosure of the upper part of the establishing is opened, making the establishing additional permeable and interpenetrating with the inexperienced mountains and inexperienced water. Blended with localized progressive Bamboo mildew concrete provides and furry bamboo enclosure, it completes the collective memory penetration from the positioning to the establishing.


The within of the establishing creates a gentle and open public home, breaking the one carry out of the traditional rural bookstore and enhancing the composite use of the inside home. And improve the sunken courtyard and excavate the use price of the establishing. In order to affix the two isolated buildings, a two-story corridor was added to the design, and ultimately, the event of the three-dimensional circulation line was achieved, so that the final connection between the establishing and the environment was established. The impression of the positioning prime distinction on the establishing is resolved. Lastly, the renovated establishing turns right into a rural cultural place integrating finding out, exhibition, and launch, which could be shared by villagers, new youth, and vacationers.


Yucun Impression has tried various low-carbon provides and utilized sciences to comprehend carbon neutrality in rural buildings and explored carbon-neutral utilized sciences for wise buildings in rural areas by means of observe.
