Dwellings in Lishui Mountains, Zhejiang, China: A Housing Prototype This dissertation is the final product of a collective work done by students and professors at the Politecnico di Torino. The research group was created with the aim of making analyzes and proposals for the new urban plan of Lishui, China - after participating with the South China University of Technology in the contest whose theme was ‘Future ShanShui City: International Urban Design Competition - Dwellings in Lishui Mountains’. Subsequently to a brief moment of group work, each student went deeper into a specific question from Lishui new urban plan - which resulted in this thesis, focused on the housing issue of the elevated part.