A research team led by Prof. Zhu Jingxiang of the School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed an advanced architectural system for the construction of the New Bud Study Hall in Sichuan this summer, based on the experience of building the first New Bud Primary School at Xiasi village in Sichuan’s Jiange County, which can be read about here. The new Study Hall is built to outperform the first New Bud Primary school in energy efficiency and space design, while retaining critical distinguishing features of the first school, such as earthquake resistance, durability and a short construction time of only two weeks. The new Study Hall is located in a remote minority village, Dazu, a hilly region of an altitude of 2,600 m on the border of Sichuan Province.
More on this project after the break.
Professor Zhu and his team of thirty, comprised of mainland and Hong Kong university students, and architects, were supported by Hong Kong Drago Culture Charity Fund and the CUHK New Asia Sichuan Redevelopment fund as an ecological school prototype with innovative building technologies. The project was developed after the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake.
