We think the best solution to rural revitalization would never be building new houses over old ones. The most appropriate yet difficult way of Chinese rural construction is one that makes people feel at ease in the space without deliberate interference nor a imitation of the ancient, as described by a famous saying in Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu: “ A great sound is inaudible,and a great image is formless. In this case, we made it a priority to restore the existing building, keep the original spatial layout that existed when it was first built a hundred year ago- an ode to its past.

Yushe Design (YSD) is a Shanghai-based design firm with international vision, which provides integrated design of architecture, interior space and landscape. We focus on unban regeneration, creative and cultural space as well as tourist and residential projects, which share a good reputation for the high quality and value of design. Yushe Design believes strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues. We search for the best solution of each project as architecture isn’t a work of utopia and arbitrary, but a result of multiple restrains. We begin with a rigorous study and analysis of each site’s specific composition: the obvious and the hidden, the natural and the social environment. We study each program and how people involved want to live, work, play. We analyze materials, lights, that are ecologically responsive to the site conditions, support each program and reflect the characteristic of the space and the sensibility of people live in. We seek to synthesize all this so the outcome appears obvious, inevitable. Architecture is put into the service of making place, a place rather than good looking, but with external beauty- that we find in balance between aesthetic ideal and pragmatic function, simplicity and variety, individual artistry and social concerns, globalism and regionalism. Shanghai JAZ Build is an architecturedesign-based construction technology company with core competency that integrates design and construction. What JAZBUILD concerns is the relationship among "site, experience and construction". Every building is a container to support people'slives. JAZBUILD hopes to create a lifestyle in harmony with nature yet goingbeyond nature through intelligent design and constructiontechnology development.