The Eagle Artist studio is a community for artist training located in Hangzhou. The 70,000sqm campus is designed to accommodate over 3000 students as an intensive 8 month tuition preparing for college entrance exam to tier one arts institutions within mainland china. We look to the building as a ‘dream factory’ a spatial model for an arts community helping to fulfill the ambition of its temporary users.

Bringing together the social values of a campus masterplan, the idea was to optimize social experience and program exchange at any point of the campus.Where activities such as class studying, studio painting, lectures, dining, sports and resting, are interlocked and dispersed into the public realm. This way visual links and architectural gestures can act subliminally to prompt interaction / communication / and an identity through shared purpose. The building should be seen as a three dimensional grid where effort has been made to fundamentally confuse interior and exterior boundaries. Being neither inside nor outside, a permanent state of transition is

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Huangzhou Arts campus goes the extra mile to present a series of low tech of sustainable building ideas. Natural light for painting was a primary concept consideration and a priority was to harness North light which is the gold standard for painting. This was achieved through 62 skylight strips deployed over the whole painting studio Roof.North lightor reflected soft light is captured and produces a cool temperature. It allows greater control over shadows while painting. Lighting levels were further increased by using a double skinned Polycarbonate curtain wall. Polycarbonate is ideal material as opposed to plain glass due to its refractive properties and the effect it has on softening shadows.  This helped supplemented the lighting levels to a higher level during the day especially on cloudy overcast days and reduced dependency on electricity use.