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Li–Xiao Road Visitor Centre

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Li–Xiao Road Visitor Centre

A new cultural-tourism visitor centre on the Li–Xiao mountain road — an unfolding roof plane that frames the valley and shelters the traveller.

Overview

A new cultural-tourism visitor centre on the Li–Xiao mountain road — an unfolding roof plane that frames the valley and shelters the traveller.

Story

The Li-Xiao road links the valleys of Li County to the Xiaojin passes — a route of gorges, terraced villages and high orchards. The visitor centre gives this journey a threshold: a folded roof plane lifts toward the valley view, sheltering an open hall where orientation, local produce and rest areas share one continuous space.

Materials are drawn from the route itself — stone from the gorge, timber from the forest belt — so the centre reads as a built continuation of the road’s landscape rather than an imported object.