Crack Light

Rural revitalization is an important goal of China’s next stage of development. In the past five thousand years, the countryside has been an important carrier of economic and cultural development. After entering the process of modernization, more and more people have left the countryside and flocked to the city. The maintained countryside gradually declined. Now, the ruins can be seen everywhere back to the village. Dilapidated makes them no longer brilliant, but also left a different kind of historical memory.We do not intend to rebuild , but hope to enrell the residual bricks and tiles into the bright future of the village, and use the residual walls as the cracks of the old village to welcome the new vitality in the future. “Everything has cracks, because that’s where the light comes in.” The dilapidation of the ancient buildings has created a new vacancy for the building to embrace sunlight.The design takes Gangtou Village, an ancient village in Guangzhou as an example. His village structure is relatively complete, but there are also many collapsed and damaged dwellings. We plan to use these residual walls for protection and utilization, and design a residual wall museum to connect the broken houses in the village. , while preserving historical traces, exploring the new vitality of traditional knots.