The Driftwood Village Center is located on the bank of a reservoir in Liugang Village, Xinyang, Designed as a shared space for villagers during the farming off-season, the Village Center includes a tea room, reading lounge, and a villagers’ assembly hall. The spatial arrangement is conceived in response to the agricultural environment and the periodic changes in reservoir water levels. Through its form, the architecture establishes a dialogue with the surrounding mountains and farmland, becoming a medium that connects agrarian life with the natural landscape.
The “grain of the fields” shaped by fine farming practices is the site’s most distinctive feature. The architecture integrates humbly into the agricultural landscape, preserving existing field ridges and native vegetation. The building form is derived directly from the surrounding environment.
A stretch of the dike path along the reservoir was chosen as the cue for the architectural circulation, allowing the floor plan to naturally extend from both ends, making the building an organic continuation of the dike road.
