In Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, a change of ecology, culture and technology is quietly staged in Muqiaotou Village. This traditional village, once famous for its thousands of acres of pristine waters, is now building a cultural landmark cluster linking history and the future as the core of the “All-Region Joint Creation” rural revitalization demonstration project.
The project in Muqiaotou Village is a giant in the project of “All-Region Joint Creation” - with a total planning area of nearly 200 acres, covering three core buildings, namely Shuiyang Memorial Hall, Wetland Culture Center, and Gymnasium, and supported by the construction of ecological trails, intelligent parking lots and other infrastructures. The most notable one is the main project of Wetland Culture Center, which is under construction, and in sharp contrast to it, it is the Shuiyang Memorial Hall and Gymnasium, which have completed the main construction and entered the stage of finishing, and the whole project is expected to be fully completed in March 2026, which is a great achievement in the project of “Territory-wide Joint Creation”.
The architects of ShuiYang Memorial Hall took the folded book page as a prototype, and through parametric modeling technology, the traditional sloping roof is tilted at the angle of the “book page”, and through hydrodynamic simulation, not only to ensure that the rainwater flows down smoothly, but also to form a unique rhythm of light and shadow. This design not only echoes the history of porcelain making in Deqing, but also implies the profound metaphor of “civilization inheritance is like the turning of a book page” in the Cultural Pavilion.
But what really gives the building a futuristic look is the Sangobuild solar roof tiles that cover it. This TÜV-certified green building material transforms the entire roof into a miniature power station by generating 180-190W per square meter. Even more subtle is its modular design: designed for the different sizes of book page roofs, it realizes millimeter-level adaptation of each PV tile to the building's curved surface. The classic match of black glaze and grey matching tiles not only maintains the solemnity of the cultural pavilion, but also increases the power generation efficiency of the roof by 17% through customized arrangement.
The technological breakthroughs of Sangobuild solar roof tiles go far beyond that. Its original “sandwich” structure integrates the power generation layer, waterproof layer and heat insulation layer into one, with Class A fireproof performance and Class 15 wind resistance, completely solving the problem of leakage on traditional tile roofs. In the high temperature environment of Deqing County in summer, the special spectrally selective coating of the tile can reflect 83% of solar radiation, reducing the indoor temperature by 5-8℃. More noteworthy is its full life cycle carbon management: each square meter of tile can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2,223-2,900kg in 30 years, equivalent to the carbon sequestration of planting 15 fir trees.
Standing in front of the cultural center cluster in Muqiaotou Village, what we see is not only a building, but also a philosophy of constructing the future countryside. When the black glaze of the Sangobuild solar roof tiles reflects the light of the millennium water ripples, and when the folded lines of the book page roof form a marvelous resonance with the trajectory of the flying birds, this place is interpreting the eternal dialectics of tradition and modernity, ecology and technology, conservation and development.
The practice of Muqiaotou Village also proves that rural revitalization does not need to be a multiple choice question between tradition and modernity. When the cultural roots become a source of innovation, when the ecological background into the development of kinetic energy, a sense of both historical importance and the future sense of science and technology of the countryside new form is taking shape. What is written here is not only the story of Deqing County, but also the future answer to China's rural revitalization.
