China Academy of Art (CAA) is one of the most influential art institutions in China. Located in Hangzhou, its new campus was completed in 2006. Designed by the dean of the architecture school of CAA, Shu Wang, the new campus took a very crude and natural appearance and borrowed a lot of elements from vernacular architectures from Southeast China.
(College of Visual Art Building, China Academy of Art)The College of Visual Art building was designed in a four-sided courtyard shape, with a big courtyard at the center with is similar to tianjing (skywell) in Huizhou and Zhejiang vernacular architecture. The verdant corridors facing toward the tianjing were closed by wooden windows, which are open most of time and can be closed during windy typhoon season.
The buildings of the architecture department are basically boat-like building built on water. They were like the stone boat in Chinese royal gardens (see the stone boat from the Summer Palace, Beijing).
(left: Stone Boat, Summer Palace, Beijing right: Architecture Building, Chinese Academy of Art)
(Architecture Building in the Sunrise)The façade of the Scultpture Department building were built in recycled materials, such as broken tiles, bricks, porcelain. It is said that one of the designers of this building, who is a faculty at CAA, took his students on sketching field trip and asked them to collect these deserted materials during the field trip. It is definitely a very avant-garde building in China both in terms of its appearance and environmentalist concept.
(The facade of the Sculpture Department Building is made of recycled tiles)
(Administration Building, China Academic of Art)
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