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400 words. The Shangwei Plugin Houses are renovated houses that are hundreds of years old, left vacant and in ruins for decades as Shangwei Village suffered from heavy disinvestment. The rapid urban expansion of nearby Shenzhen engulfed villages like Shangwei, turning them into urban villages, or rural islands surrounded by a sea of new development. Half of the properties in Shangwei lay abandoned as villagers fled in search of higher standards of living in neighboring areas. Middle Density, People’s Architecture Office (PAO), Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms China, Comfort, development, Efficiency, Energy, Exploring Housing, Housing, Hybrid neighborhoods, Neighborhood, Prefabrication, Project, Renovation, Shenzhen, Urban Legacy Photography: People’s Architecture Office, Zhan Changheng Architecture House-design Project Shenzhen, China China 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/shangwei-plugin-house/ https://urbannext.net/shangwei-plugin-house/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20230301130021.0 eng