The Chinese Academy of Art (CAA) in Hangzhou has two campuses. One is in the city center, near West Lake, and a new larger campus is in the outskirts. The presence of the architect Wang Shu is ubiquitous on the new campus: most of its buildings were designed by him. When we started on this work, he had not yet received the 2012 Pritzker Prize. The help that we received from both of him and his architect wife Lu Wenyu during the early stages of our work ? and even today -, were and continue to be fundamental.

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Architects: Carlos Castanheira, Álvaro Siza

Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Portugal Office: CC&CB, Arquitectos

Principal In Charge: Pedro Carvalho

Local Office: The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture, China Academy of Art
Architecture: Liu Ke, Zhao Yaunpeng, Jiang Weihua

Area: 16000.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Collaborators: Adalberto Dias, Carolina Leite, Catarina Rodrigues, Diana Vasconcelos, Elisabete Queirós, Francesca Tiri, Germano Vieira, Joana Soeiro, João Figueiredo, Jorge Santos, Nuno Campos, Pedro Afonso, Rita Ferreira, Sara Pinto, Susana Oliveira

Struture: Shentu Taunbing, Chen Yongbing

Engineering: Zhu Weiping, Yu Xiaofen (Hydraulical), Jin Guogang, Wang Yonghong (Electrical) Chen Chunji, Teng Liang (HVAC)

Intelligent Desing: Sun Mingliang, Sin Minjun (int...