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Revival of Pingtian Village in Songyang County Sun, et al.

characters, but also in harmony with the County Magistrate, Jun Wang, has devoted
village. himself to the renovation of historical villages.
In 2013, Binlong Jiang, Pingtian-born,
1.5 Rural landscape with natural charm returned to his hometown of Songyang. Mr.
Landscapes play an important role in the Jiang’s family used to be a village cadre, and
cultural, ecological, and environmental fields he had the courage and ability to be an
and can also contribute to local economic operator of the project. As a local villager, Mr.
development and rural development [12] . Our Jiang is an extremely suitable person for rural
emotional ties with rural area largely stem revitalization. The county government invests
from the rural landscape which is full of the fund for rural construction here, so that it
natural charm. However, most landscape can have the reasonable social and economic
design methods are for urban squares, gardens, effects. In the end, Mr. Jiang managed to take
or artificial spaces. Landscape design in rural tenures of 18 old houses in the village and
areas needs to avoid “over-design” that cooperated with the government to carry out
damages the natural charm of the villages. the renovation. Therefore, Pingtian Village
Therefore, designers must learn from nature was selected as the key village.
and from the villagers. The work of several The planning team started this project in
renowned designers in Pingtian all used 2014. At that time, Pingtian Village was just
natural landscape in the background to create an unknown small village surrounded by the
a harmonious environment. mountains. The village is small in scale, and
Landscape designers extracts design the buildings are not very delicate. Most of
elements from the stone walls, vegetable the houses are traditional rammed earth two-
gardens, and bamboo forest, adapted them story buildings. Although the buildings in
and used them in the design. For example, the Pingtian Village are well preserved and have
triangle patch mentioned above was designed rich cloud landscapes, the scenery and the
into a neatly aligned vegetable garden to set history do not stand out from the surrounding
off surrounding buildings. Another example villages, which was obviously not attractive
is the vacant lot behind Muxiang Caotang. It enough for outsiders. The conventional rural
was transformed into a small theater made of tourism cannot bring breakthrough
bamboo and was used to hold all kinds of development to the village. The renovation of
activities. Pingtian Village requires the injection of new
functions, reflecting the contrast between
2. DISCUSSION: PARTICULARITY OF modern and traditional, bringing new
PINGTIAN VILLAGE elements and vitality to the village. So, a
China has gradually shifted from high-speed group of architects with unique and
economic development to quality-oriented innovative ideas were gathered in Pingtian
development, and the imbalance between Village. Compared with the traditional single-
rural and urban areas has become a prominent person design, cluster design can gather the
problem. Therefore, rural revival and collective wisdom. The unique ideas of each
development is an inevitable result, and some architect have brought new possibilities to the
villages will inevitably start to change first. development of Pingtian Village. The similar
The Songyang government is far-sighted very houses have been transformed by different
much concerned about rural issues, and designers, showing different styles, resulting
strongly supports the renovation and in a very interesting diversity. Collecting a
development of the villages. Therefore, large number of works of well-known
Songyang has become a pioneer in rural architects in a small village, these excellent
development. design works will definitely enhance the
Since 2012, Songyang County has been popularity of Pingtian Village, attract
committed to the protection and development attention and bring up topics, and then
of traditional villages and rural revitalization. promote the development of the entire village.

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