Bamboo Workshop

Anshi Village in Yibin, Sichuan, is an ordinary village backed by Nianpan Mountain. The village is connected by lanes, with scattered fields and ponds, houses and trees interwoven—a typical southern Sichuan settlement. The Bamboo Craft Workshop is located in a crescent-shaped terraced field deep within Anshi Village. The natural texture of the terraced fields and the triangular site boundary formed by the country road naturally outline the building. Combined with the business programming plan for Anshi Village's rural revitalization, the Bamboo Craft Workshop is conceived as a workshop focused on bamboo weaving craft research. In traditional Chinese villages, family workshops often followed a front shop, back factory model, integrating retail and production. Similarly, the Bamboo Craft Workshop encompasses research, production, exhibition, and sales functions, all unified under a gently sloping, rounded-corner triangular roof. It forms an experiential workshop for urban visitors while also serving as a study space where villagers can learn skills. Along the path through the terraced fields, a lightweight roof supported by slender columns suddenly comes into view. Contrary to most enclosed courtyard roofs that channel water toward a central atrium, at the center of the Bamboo Craft Workshop, a two-story circular glass lighthouse rises above the roof, forming a reception space with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside without interfering with the ground-floor spatial organization. The rounded-corner triangular roof lifts slightly toward the central lighthouse, revealing beneath it a woven-like T-shaped steel plate grid. T-shaped elements formed from 300-millimeter and 100-millimeter-high steel plates interweave, much like local bamboo weaving techniques, forming the structural skeleton of the roof in an alternating rhythm. Compared with more rustic rural buildings, the workshop uses a refined structural language that honors local craft tradition while bringing contemporary architectural precision to the village.