Xibaipo China Resource Hope Town

Location Pingshan, Hebei Province
Floor Area 53,000m2
Design Time 2010
Completion Time 2011

A demonstration project of New Village granted by China Resources Group, the Hope Town accommodates 238 families from three villages. Surrounded by water on three sides and facing a reservoir, the site is naturally divided into three groups by a central landscape belt which is reformed from an existing flood discharge. Several public facilities, such as thevillage government building, villagers’ home, clinic and kindergarten and shops are settled along it to form a public activity center here. Trees and some courtyard farmhouse are retained to remind the history of the new settlement. In addition, the house groups, public buildings, roads and courtyards are well designed to create a variety of routes and view angles. Based on the spatial characteristics of traditional local houses, each house consists of an L-shaped main building and a repeatable enclosed courtyard.

A demonstration project of New Village granted by China Resources Group, the Hope Town accommodates 238 families from three villages. Surrounded by water on three sides and facing a reservoir, the site is naturally divided into three groups by a central landscape belt which is reformed from an existing flood discharge. Several public facilities, such as thevillage government building, villagers’ home, clinic and kindergarten and shops are settled along it to form a public activity center here. Trees and some courtyard farmhouse are retained to remind the history of the new settlement. In addition, the house groups, public buildings, roads and courtyards are well designed to create a variety of routes and view angles. Based on the spatial characteristics of traditional local houses, each house consists of an L-shaped main building and a repeatable enclosed courtyard.