Several artists rented vacant farmer houses on Dongtou Island, forming an artist village. The artists live here as the local farmers do, and their artistic activities are enlivening this small, deteriorated village, whose younger generation is trying its luck in big cities. Therefore, the artists and local government are ambitious to improve and renew the environment and basic infrastructure.   

The design started with planning. Because of the excessive construction of traffic infrastructure in recent years, especially the island ring that changed the village structure completely, made the ends of the village reverse. The new scheme underlined the village structure in East-West direction and added two South-North hiking ways, creating a cross-shaped landscape sequence. On the one hand, the village is connected with the modern island ring, and on the other hand, it keeps successfully its self-sufficient spirit. The landscape design aimed at rearrangement, avoiding interference on natural environment as much as possible. For example, only small landscape scenes were added to reconstructed public houses like boardinghouse and gallery in order to indicate their new functions. Local building materials and vegetation were widely used, which is the method preferred by the architects to recover the original landscape of island villages.