Materials Dictate Form: Where Stone Cannot Reach, Use Earth

A house built with materials from underfoot. The wall material is whatever is available on that land: stone masonry where there is granite, fired brick or rammed earth where there is clay, whitewash where there is lime, and half-timbered construction where there is wood. Therefore, all houses in the same village are consistent in color, matching the surrounding rock strata and soil; in times of high transportation costs, there was no other choice.
Avoid: using exotic materials unrelated to local geology, mixing building materials within the same settlement, using veneers and imitation stone materials, making the building's color strongly contrast with the environment.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟用腳下的材料蓋的房子。牆的材料就是這塊地上有的東西:有花崗岩的地方砌石、有黏土的地方燒磚或夯土、有石灰的地方抹白、有木頭的地方做半木構。因此同一個村子裡的所有房子顏色一致,與周圍的岩層和土壤同色;運輸成本高的年代沒有別的選擇。避免:使用與當地地質無關的外來材料、讓同一個聚落裡的建築材料混雜、使用貼面與仿石材料、讓建築的顏色與環境對比強烈。