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The design concept is to combine the needs of modern education with local planning, maximizing the preservation of the current characteristics of the site, creating a unique art campus space using terrain, while reducing earthwork and saving costs, and evolving a self generated architectural solution. We adopt the design concept of "mountain", with classrooms nestled against the mountain and libraries hidden within. Students shuttle through it, showcasing endless romantic imagination.
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The project is located in the south of Yiwu City. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north. There is a hill in the middle of the east side of the plot that is more than ten meters long, with a large overall height difference. The terrain of the site is complex, with a small hill and a low depression, with an overall elevation difference of about 14 meters. In the design, the original elevation difference within the site should be aligned, emphasizing the integration with the natural environment. The central axis of the campus should be established based on the terrain, forming the core space for artistic activities and external display. On this basis, the scattered functional volume is connected by corridors, developing into a complete tree like spatial structure.
The architectural layout conforms to the site's terrain, avoiding large-scale leveling or transformation, thus reducing terrain damage and earth excavation. Taking advantage of slopes, the project created terraced buildings and landscapes, ensuring harmonious coexistence between the architecture and nature. During construction, the site's ecosystem was protected and restored, vegetation was retained, and diverse habitats such as wetland and grassland were designed to improve biodiversity. Low-cost materials and construction methods were selected, which has lowered costs and enhanced economic feasibility during both construction and maintenance. The simple architectural forms reduced material use and prevented waste in decoration.
The central axis is connected by a pen and a line, starting from the music hall on the opposite bank of the stream to the north. It crosses the river and merges into the axis, with continuous steps passing through the campus relying on the mountain terrain. Step by step, we have added protruding vertical platforms on both sides of the continuous building interface, combining virtual and real elements, using white walls as carriers and bamboo and wood as embellishments, creating a strong material contrast and presenting a fun and accessible space. The teaching building is arranged in a folded and staggered manner along the axis, falling layer by layer and cleverly combining with the terrain. As the main clue to the planning structure, the corridor naturally extends and turns like a tree trunk within the plot, connecting different functional areas within the site. In order to encourage the exchange of students' art activities, enough Shared space is reserved at the intersection of the corridor and the teaching building to become the aggregation container of various arts, so that students can freely contact and explore the art forms of interest between the teaching buildings of various disciplines. Each functional area has a unique identification color in the red gray tone, which reflects different spatial personalities and implies belonging to a unified whole.
“Designed by UAD, the New Campus of Yiwu Art School fully meets the design brief. The architectural design is creative, well-planned, fully functional, and user-friendly, with clear circulations route. Upon completion, it has received wide acclaim from all walks of life.”
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co.,Ltd. (UAD) was established in 1953. Formerly known as Zhejiang University Architectural Design Studio, it is one of the earliest First Class Design Institutes among major national universities.
The mission of UAD is to seek “harmonious environment, global vision, design-teaching-research integration and innovation, and the highest professionalism”. UAD adopts the development strategy of “high-grade culture, broad vision, high-efficiency management, high-caliber talents, high professional technologies and high-quality works”, with the academic theory of “Balanced Architecture” as the design guideline. During the past decades, UAD has always persisted in creating fine and innovative works, contributing a large number of outstanding works in various fields. Over the years, it has won more than 1900 awards for outstanding designs, excellent projects or research outcomes at national, ministerial and provincial levels.
