|a new trial -chinese cave|
China: High in the misty hills of southwestern China, an hour's hike from any road, the lowing of livestock echoes through Zhongdong village, where a group of 18 families live inside an enormous natural cave. The final hold-outs of the country's "last cave-dwelling" village have had modern conveniences, like electricity, for years. But their only access to the outside world is a footpath winding through Guizhou province's rugged mountain terrain.Now a local tourism development company has built a 15 million yuan ($2.2 million) cable car that residents will be allowed to use for free.The funicular will make their daily lives easier and furnish new business opportunities, it says. It will go into operation May 1. Currently, villagers must haul in all food and products that they can't make or grow themselves -- even large items like furniture -- from the nearest town, a three hour commute each way. While some residents are excited by the economic prospects of more tourists, others are unconvinced that the new transport will improve their lives in one of China's poorest regions.The cable car isn't convenient for the rural people of Zhongdong, said 22-year-old Wang Xingguo, since poultry and unwieldy cargo will not be allowed in cabins. "They said they'd build us a road 15 years ago, but then they discovered this was a place they could make money off and so chose not to build it," he said, ushering a herd of goats into a pen near the mouth of the nearly 200-metre deep cave.
I tried to spatialize the life in the cave in accordance with the context of the region. I Tried to synthesize the parameters of the work of the mistress and the people living there. I tried to design the living space according to a pararemetric understanding without moving away from the texture of the room. Behavioral parameters and cave texture.Parametric design is compatible with the parametric understanding of nature.The cave was previously occupied by bandits. But when the People's Liberation Army drove them out, Wang's family seized the opportunity to make it their home. Twenty years ago, he became the first in Zhongdong to convert a portion of his home into a small guesthouse and now makes some 18,000 yuan ($2,600)a year housing tourists. Caves that have been living organically became a tourist area after a while. The actual peasantry from the new function must be preserved. Organic structure formed in the cave facilitates life. The new space formed by the cave texture has been formed with a parametric design.
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