Five Scattered Houses, Ningbo, Experimental building complex in Yinzhou Park, Ningbo, China

Five Scattered Houses is a group of five experimental buildings in Yinzhou Park, Ningbo, designed by Wang Shu with Lu Wenyu: two tea houses, a gallery, a café and an administrative building, totalling 2,000 square metres. Each uses a different construction method, including a "tile-panel wall" of broken local bricks, rammed earth and cast-in-place concrete.

Commissioned by the Yinzhou District government, the five experimental buildings were completed around 2005 and received the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction Asia-Pacific that year. In 2006 they were handed to the district's landscaping office, and in 2007 rented to four operators. After Wang Shu won the 2012 Pritzker Prize, media found the buildings altered; the gallery passed to the Ningbo Museum in 2013 and became the Li Yuan Photography Art Museum.

The five buildings are not dwellings but a gallery, two teahouses, a café and an administrative building, commissioned by the Yinzhou district government. The gallery, taken over by the Ningbo Museum in 2013, became the Li Yuan Photography Art Museum, hosting exhibitions, lectures, competitions and training. The second teahouse, a long bar-shaped volume with rammed-earth walls, was designed around a Zen mood, with an artificial pond to its south reached by a small bridge.

The site offers walking paths between the houses and through the surrounding park, allowing visitors to explore the buildings and landscape at their own pace. Natural trails and open spaces make the grounds easy to navigate.

The gallery building's concrete-and-broken-brick walls were the test bed for the "wa pan" brick-wall technique later used at the Ningbo Museum and the Shanghai Expo Ningbo case pavilion. The gallery was handed to the Ningbo Museum in 2013 and became the Li Yuan Photography Art Museum.