Black Tiger Primary School, Mao County

The project is located in a remote mountainous area and is a reconstruction project after 2008 Whenchuan Earthquake. Black Tiger village is a famous cultural relic village of the Qiang people. Women in the village maintain a traditional lifestyle, wearing a unique white headscarf called "filial piety" on their heads. The story of General Black Tiger has been passed down from generation to generation.

In the iteration of modern life, can the use of local traditional building materials and construction methods bring more cultural confidence to the aborigines? Can the stone crafts inherited for thousands of years by the local Qiang minority be combined with the construction of modern sustainable development? The project tried to find a strategy. At least, now it has become a window for local cultural exchanges.

Maybe we don’t have enough funds for them to enjoy the same conditions as the children in the city. At least the children will no longer have to line up to pee between the classes. When they grow up into society, they will remember their simple and happy childhood as well as their homesickness.

The most prominent feature in the reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake is that we not only focus on the post-earthquake safety, the environmental friendliness and the recycling of resources, but also on the local culture context. With the interaction between architecture and education, it cares children's future mental health. Hope to inspire minority to think about how to build sustainable house based on their own culture.