Artist：Hao Dapeng
Date： 2004-2010
Location： Chongqing University Town, Chongqing
Media/Type： Landscape Planning / Public Art
Commissioner： Sichuan Academy of Art
Researcher： Pan Li
Huxi Campus of Sichuan Fine Art Institute has combined regional culture and campus’identity together. Attending to the traditional garden layout, the design of Huxi Campus has remained the natural landform and topography, with the 11 hills perfectly retained by conforming to the lie of the mountain. Scattered around the hills, the buildings embody the original landform with their varied shapes and simple materials. The entire campus is full of quiet and natural feelings.
The campus also reserves some of the original farmhouses, ditches and farmland to keep the origin of the city. The daily life of the farm is kept the same as before in the quiet campus, and a variety of farm implements along the poolside corridors become memory symbols. The layout of the buildings fully takes the natural condition of Chongqing into account and represents the design philosophy of “being surrounded on all sides”.
As a whole, the buildings are randomly scattered around the hills as different settlements which are the typical architectural tradition in Chongqiong, the mountain city. Huxi Campus initiates the exploration of combining art and technology into the construction of the campus with its own cultural characteristics, but also has guiding significance to the modern urban construction in China. |
