Jianamani Visitor Center: Vernacular Architecture in Traditional Stone Masonry Style

Atelier TeamMinus, Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project

China, Context, Cultural identity, Culture, Earthquake, Educational Building, Local materials, Local techniques, Mixed-use buildings, Multifunctional building, Project, Recycled debris, Religion, Religious building, Restoration, Stone, Tradition, Vernacular, Yushu

Jianamani Visitor Center is a public visitor and community centre on historical Tibetan Buddhist religious site, which includes a local post office, clinic, public toilets, and research archive. The building, with a simple geometry and vernacular architecture in traditional stone masonry style, presents a roof terrace and observation decks made of wood and recycled earthquake debris.