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Concrete Pavilion

Yunnan, China

in architecture proudly unveils
Concrete Pavilion, a pump station
Lin the countryside outside Eryuan
Botou Village, in Yunnan, China.
Outside the village, a beautiful field
clears the ears and eyes with chirping
frogs in the rice bushes, the whirling of
the rice stalks, and the dripping of light
rain. As far as the eye can see, there are
rolling curves, both of the mountains
and of the rice paddies. However, looking
down from the opposite side of the hill,
the fields show a different story, with
canals and paths dividing the fields into
various shaped fragments that are quite
distinctive.
It is the task of the museum to make
use of the identity of the space to provide
villagers and tourists with both endless
and fragmented views of the fields at
the same time. In recent history, very
few buildings have been placed in the
landscape of this field, other than a small
pump house, the predecessor of the
concrete pavilion, where villagers used to
collect water and electricity.

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