Wang Shu | Xiangshan Campus: Walls and Gates Built with Recycled Tiles

The campus boundary is not a fence but a series of thick walls, built with a mix of recycled green tiles, red bricks, pottery shards, and crushed stones from demolished old houses. The materials vary in size, color, and age, and the laying method changes with the materials, making the entire wall resemble a compressed slice of time. The entrance openings are simple square or arched openings, without doors, with only the thickness of the wall defining inside and out. The top of the wall is covered with a row of tiles. As people pass through the opening, they simultaneously pass through this mixed material. The surroundings are unkempt grassy slopes, bamboo groves, and ponds. Shot under soft overcast light, with clear color differences in materials and variations in laying methods visible in the foreground. Avoid: using new, uniform building materials, regular laying methods, installing modern doors, painting over the wall surface to cover materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

校園的邊界不是圍籬而是一道道厚實的牆,以拆除舊屋回收的青瓦、紅磚、缸片與碎石混砌而成,材料的尺寸、顏色與年代全部不同,砌法隨材料而變,整面牆像一部被壓縮的時間切片。門洞為簡單的方形或拱形開口,沒有門扇,只有牆的厚度界定內外。牆頂覆以一排瓦。人穿過門洞時同時穿過這道混雜的材料。周圍為未修整的草坡、竹林與水塘。柔和的陰天光線下拍攝,材料的色差與砌法的變化在近景清楚。避免:使用全新統一的建材、砌法規律、加裝現代門扇、牆面塗裝覆蓋材料。