Cuisuba Yi Cultural and Visitor Center

The cultural and visitor center stands on a grassland plateau as a wordless monument in homage to the Yi people, the local ethnic minority group. West-line Studio, through a long-term practice and observation of the subculture circle, developed a working method which combines the mnemonic of the ‘rite’, which shapes the traditional society, with the order of the ‘site’: the building resembles Yi culture through symbolism and in creating a ritual atmosphere, reproducing the genius loci.