Identification
Projects were identified by surveying national and international architectural repositories using descriptors related to administrative level, policy keywords and countryside topological features.
Dataset
Contemporary Chinese Rural Architectural Database
FIELD-WORK records contemporary rural architecture projects in China through project-level geospatial data, combining location, typology, construction, temporal and source information for comparative research.
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Projects
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Provinces / municipalities
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Project categories
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Completion years
Projects by category
Completion timeline
Leading provinces
Area distribution
Construction method
Dataset structure
The public interface uses project name, designer, province, city, district, completion year, project category, type, construction method, area and source website.
Quality notes
Internal quality-control fields are retained in the dataset for review and maintenance, but are kept secondary in the public map interface.
About
Field-Work: Contemporary Chinese Rural Architectural Database
Field-Work is an extensive database dedicated to contemporary rural architecture in China, developed as a geospatial research interface for documenting the spatial distribution, design categories and transformation patterns of rural architectural practice.
Project overview
Originating from research conducted for the exhibition Chinese Countryside in Practice: Exploratory Grounds, part of the event Horizontal Metropolis Yangtze River Delta: Entangling Capitals, this pilot platform provides a detailed view of rural architectural practices within the extended Yangtze River Delta metropolis, targeting Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang Provinces, as well as the Shanghai Municipality.
Field-Work identifies, categorizes, and quantifies a diverse range of architectural projects developed over the last two decades, a period marked by transformative rural development policies in China. Dynamic maps display the spatial distribution and exact locations of architectural projects, while structured data reveal trends and patterns in rural architectural outputs.
Data sources
Records are assembled through a staged desktop research workflow and checked against project-level spatial information.
Screening
Popular architecture accounts on Chinese social media platforms were reviewed to identify projects not available in traditional repositories.
Verification
Potential schemes were selected and their locations verified, filtering for designs situated in areas classified as rural or urban fringes.
Research team
Chenyan Zhao - data sourcing and classification
Ao Cheng, Yutong Dai, Chenxing Du - data sourcing
Yichun Hu and Leiyu Chen - data visualization and website design
Funding
This project was made possible by support from the General Program Approval Number 42071190 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Seed Funding for Small Research and Knowledge Exchange Project Scheme of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
Data Manager
Edit the in-browser dataset, then export a new file. Browser security prevents this page from silently overwriting the original project files.
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