Starting from the small conference room as a prototype, whose importance is manifested through its spatial independence and centrality, the entire building emerges as a group of “rooms” including offices, classrooms, lecture halls as well as traffic spaces connecting the above, all of which are fully expressed, and thus contribute to the external form of the building with their own characteristics. Here, the once monolithic whole gives way to the mass of the group, and "one building" becomes "a group of rooms".
This group of rooms is organized in a courtyard fashion. Building volumes form an extended and blurred interface of concave and convex shapes, which generates a series of smaller semi-enclosed outdoor spaces. Coupled with a south wing atrium as an indoor courtyard and two upper courtyards that are completely enclosed on all sides, a courtyard system with clear order and diverse forms is achieved, giving people an architectural experience rich in layers, changes, and surprises.
As an external force, the main flow of people from the southeast, shapes the building volumes and triggers changes in their orientations, so that the building responds to its environment, adds a vigorous flavor to the orthogonal campus, and shows an active posture of acceptance and welcome. The tilted side walls of the seminar rooms, fitting the room layout and the direction of exterior people flow at the same time, becomes a distinctive feature of the building.
The honest and expressive representation of real requirements of all kinds, are carried through from the macro to the micro: the architectural details follow and positively express their own construction. For example, the non-structural properties of the single-brick curtain wall are suggested in the all-stretcher masonry, with the exposed full-header reveals of the openings indicating its thickness, and the metal profiles decorated at the positions of the slabs suggesting its load-bearing logic.
