Houses made from salvaged building materials

Toilet

Pavement

Guard shack

Culture wall

China today is undergoing a rapid urbanization. In the process, a lot of construction waste was generated, then abandoned or buried in soil, polluting the environment and destroying the planet for the next generation.

How to handle the construction waste has become a major social problem.

Yungang Grottoes, located in the city of Datong, Shanxi province, is a treasure site of Buddhist art created by our ancestors 1,500 years ago.

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yungang Grottoes left half a mountain after the cave was dug out. The remaining rocks were used for capital construction, life and art recreation.

The ancient people’s extraordinary creativity and environmental awareness by recycling natural resources can be seen.

In March 2009, the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute volunteered to construct the Yungang Grottoes wall. We built a sandstone wall using waste rock as the material.

In 2013, the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute recycled the waste rock and abandoned cement concrete blocks to construct the surrounding wall of the office building. Finally, the Yungang Cultural Wall, a wall filled with historical charm and modern elegance, was created.

The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, combined with the Yungang Cultural Wall, presents the concept of advocating nature and environmental protection.

In addition, we designed and built some stone houses to be used as guard shacks and restrooms. And we used the saw plate waste to lay the parking lot for the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute.

The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute has high respect for nature and the ecological environment, recycling waste to be used for buildings and roads.

We hope that Yungang Grottoes will lead the whole society to embark on a path of sustainable development, creating a pure planet for future generations.