Urban Village, as a unique phenomenon in the urbanization of Chinese cities, has long been a tough issue to tackle. Numbers of the villages were wiped out to make way for higher plot ratios regardless of their inconspicuous but significant role in city. This thesis project here challenges such traditional mindsets, reveals the value, and potentials of urban village conservation, especially in the context of Shenzhen, the country’s fastest-growing city. Shixia Village is picked as a site for demonstration. Through reprogramming and spatial intervention, the scheme proactively conserves and strengthens the village’s urban quality as well as social landscape, while ensuring economic profitability, living quality, and sustainability. The incorporation of new technologies like automated delivery systems and urban farming technologies improves spatial and production efficiency. In this sense, urban villages not only support the rest of the city as nodes of an invisible infrastructural network. It can offer an alternative way of working and living, nourished from the past, no less than the massively produced “modern norm”.