The "mixed community" is located in Gaoshan Village, Wenjiang District, Chengdu. The site was originally a village committee compound, which was vacant due to the merger of administrative villages. The town government hopes to revitalize this compound and create an agricultural exhibition research base, providing opportunity for young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and at the same time serving as a cultural and leisure venue for the surrounding suburban communities.

Growing Settlement
There was originally a two-story office building in the yard, several tall sycamore trees on the south, and a bamboo forest on the west side. In order to fit the rural environment, we adopted the concept of small-scale settlements to form a new building community in the yard by connecting with each other and avoiding trees, as if it grew out of the original buildings and bamboo forest.

Units and Structures
The new building uses a 6x6 meter module to construct settlement units. The small square units extend from the original house and are connected into groups by rotating in different directions. The entire floor plane is controlled by two sets of orthogonal column grids with an angle of about 60 degrees. In order to hide the structure and simplify the internal space, we use a large number of special-shaped columns to connect the walls, columns, and beams into a 200mm thick whole, and use triangular plane shear walls in the voids and patios for structural stability. Four sets of triangular concrete walls and the special-shaped columns surrounding them form a complete structural system, which brings a variety of spatial forms such as indoor, outdoor, void, enclosure, etc., forming a multi-level open space with blurred inside and outside.

Materials and Atmosphere
Since the "mixed community" has functions for different groups of people, the material language and spatial tonality of each functional area are also different. The exhibition room, cafe, small book house and other public activities and cultural functions use a lot of wooden shingles and bamboo windows made on site by carpenters on the background of concrete walls; the outdoor terrace of the renovated part uses dense bamboo strips as sunshade and partition; the newly built homestay in the backyard is a group of white cottages with patios; these local materials bring people a warm and familiar experience, and their wild temperament also fits the suburban rural background environment where the project is located. We used steel plates and steel grille components in the indoor stairs, sky bridges and roof terrace areas, hoping to create a light and simple spatial feature through the use of these metal materials, combined with a large number of exposed concrete walls and floor slabs in the interior space.

Community and Operation
The project ultimately formed a mixed rural community that integrates accommodation, exhibition, study, theater, coffee and leisure functions, and hopes to explore the possibility of a new type of rural public building. "Garlic Coffee" is the first brand incubated by this project. The continuous operation of activities has also attracted many young college students to return home during the holidays to participate in local activities. The operation team hopes that this model can form a positive demonstration effect.

The original sycamore tree on the site passes through the top of the cafe, forming a lovely "tree house"; tents are set up on the spacious second-floor platform; tea tables and mahjong are set up in the glass house in the bamboo forest; children running happily everywhere in and outside the yard... The construction and use are strictly controlled and casual. Looking around in the courtyard, the different material languages of concrete, bamboo, wooden tiles and white walls collide and mix with each other, which also enhances the lively atmosphere of this rural community. When revisited it in summer after the using for more than half a year, plants inside and outside the yard were swaying and lush, as if something had grown out of the site and the house, full of vitality.

Project Info.
Project: Chengdu Wenjiang CSA Youth Community
Location: Tuanjiequ Road, Wanchun Town, Wenjiang District, Chengdu
Architecture Design: MAT Office
Contact Email: thematoffice@163.com
Design Team: TANG Kangshuo, ZHANG Miao, LIU Youpeng, HE Ningyan, WANG Feiyu, LI Xitong, LI Yue (drawing), LI Xin (drawing)
Built Area: 3000 square meters
Year of Design: 2022.04-2022.10
Year of Construction: 2022.10-2023.10
Material: concrete, wooden tile, bamboo strip, steel grille
Photograph: Arch-Exist, JIN Weiqi

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