The village of Xing is located in a sugar can cultivation region. The production of brown sugar is therefore the village’s primary source of income, and counts as a traditional handicraft industry.
Immediately adjacent to the sugarcane field, the north side of Brown Sugar Factory is enclosed by red bricks
The production area of Brown Sugar Factory is built with light steel material
The floor of the exhibition area is paved with red bricks to match the color of brown sugar.
As a common local building material, bamboo is introduced into the design as the top material of the annular corridor in the production exhibition area to define the spatial scope.
villagers invited students of art school to draw the five chapters such as Sugarcane Planting and Traditional Brown Sugar on the glass walls in and out of Brown Sugar Factory.
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The village of Xing is located in a sugarcane cultivation region. The production of brown sugar is therefore the village’s primary source of income, and counts as a traditional handicraft industry.
Building structure location-production area
About Brown Sugar Factory
The village of Xing is located in a Sugarcane cultivation region. The production of brown sugar is therefore the village’s primary source of income, and counts as a traditional handicraft industry. However, the old brown sugar factories didn’t meet modern requirements, so a new one was built with modern construction technology and lighting, though still using local materials like red bricks and bamboo. Brown Sugar Factory serves multi purposes as the production plant, activity center, and cultural exhibition space. As a living museum, the workshop exhibits ancient sugar making. There is a glass wall overlooking the idyllic scenery outside. The villagers admire the views while working in the workshop, which doubles as a leisure area for people during breaks from farming on the land. Visitors may stay and get an experience of the idyllic rural life here.
