This village house project is the first collaboration project between 1U1V and Habitat for Humanity China. Habitat for Humanity is committed to improving the living environment of the villagers and solving their housing needs, and providing support for the villagers to build houses. In the past projects, they provided financial subsidies to the villagers who built their houses by themselves. Now, they want to apply 1U1V's building technology and tools on this project. Meanwhile, 1U1V and Habitat for Humanity jointly provide financial subsidies to the villagers and technical advice on anti-seismic rammed earth construction. The training and learning process during the construction will help to further promote such new builidng technologies in the region.

Dashuijing Village is located in the mountainous area on the north side of Kunming City. Transportation is inconvenient. In the village, the old houses are broken with poor condition mainly built by rammed earth with wooden structure. New houses are built by brick and concrete.

Investigation
Design
Construction

Jul 2019 - 2nd Investigation Trip

The team entered the village for design work in the end of July. Two of the village households did not decide whether to participate due to funding problem. Thus, the team tried to firstly discussed the design layout with the household willing to participate and planned to start the construction work in Sep.

Jun 2019 - 1st Investigation Trip

In June, the team carried out an investigation trip to learn the situation of the village. Please click here to see the relevant work report (in Chinese version only)

Design layout for Mr Long's family:

Jan 2020

The house was sucessfully built in early Jan 2020.

Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

In Sep, the team launched the project and almost completed all rammed-earth construction work in Dec. Please click here to see relevent work report (in Chinese version only).