The Jintai Plaza terracotta facade uses three closely related fired-clay colours to give a long, horizontally ordered elevation more depth. The supplier archive identifies the Shanghai project as an office and commercial complex at Gutang Road and Jinhai Road in Caolu Xinshi Town, Pudong New District.
The facade combines blue-grey glazing with slender, natural-flat terracotta planes. This case study preserves all five original project photographs and separates the archived building area, product reference and colour descriptions from facts that the available records do not establish.
- Archived project name
- Jintai Plaza, Shanghai
- Programme
- Office and commercial complex
- Location
- Gutang Road & Jinhai Road, Caolu Xinshi Town, Pudong New District, Shanghai
- Architect attribution
- DESHIN, reported by LOPO in 2020
- Archived floorage
- 46,000 m², supplier-reported project area
- Supplier archive date
- 17 March 2020
- Archived colour family
- Orange, orange-red and light orange-red
- Archived surface
- Natural flat finish
- Related product record
- F3018630, 300 × 600 × 18 mm
Project identity and a clear date boundary
A LOPO company article dated 17 March 2020 names the project Jintai Plaza, places it at the Gutang Road and Jinhai Road junction in Caolu Xinshi Town, and attributes the architecture to DESHIN. It describes a 46,000 m² office and commercial complex intended to support nearby industrial parks.
The archive does not identify the client, lead designer, facade consultant, main contractor, panel installer or completion date. The five attachment records retain camera timestamps from 20 October 2019, but a photograph timestamp is not a completion certificate. The present page therefore uses the 2020 supplier-publication date as its firm historical boundary and leaves the unverified team and completion fields open.
The commercial areas are described as internal streets, with office buildings arranged as individual buildings, townhouses and some courtyard-like groups. These massing descriptions explain why the facade needs to read coherently across several building types; they do not turn the 46,000 m² floorage into a cladding measurement.
Three colours, one horizontally layered facade
The LOPO project gallery classifies the product type as a natural flat finish and describes orange, “jacinth” and light-jacinth terracotta. The Chinese version of the same project record resolves those colour terms as orange, orange-red and light orange-red. An older English news paragraph instead uses orange, yellow and light red.
For a historical overview, the most defensible reading is a three-tone warm range: orange, orange-red and a lighter orange-red. Those words are descriptive archive labels, not current LOPO colour codes or approved production tolerances. A new order, repair or extension requires physical range samples and project-approved references; colour should not be selected from a photograph or screen.
Visually, the slender horizontal pieces carry related tones across long elevations. The variation breaks large wall areas into finer bands while the repeating proportions keep the commercial street and office volumes connected. Blue-grey glazed areas supply a cooler field behind the warm terracotta, but the photographs do not reveal the complete wall build-up, fixing layout or drainage design.
What the product archive supports—and what it does not
The project gallery presents terracotta rainscreen item F3018630 as a related product, with a natural-clay material field and an archived size of 300 × 600 × 18 mm. This is useful traceability, but “related product” is not the same as an as-built panel schedule. It does not demonstrate that every installed piece used that code, size or thickness, nor does it identify cuts, returns, corners, specials or quantities by colour.
LOPO role
The 2020 company article and manufacturer-hosted project gallery support a dated LOPO product/supplier archive. They do not establish facade design, engineering, installation, main-contract or commissioning responsibility.
Area and quantity
The only area field is 46,000 m² of project floorage. No terracotta supply area, piece count, colour split, waste allowance or replacement stock is published in the reviewed records.
Performance boundary
The archive does not publish project-specific structural, fire, water, thermal, impact, durability or fixing-system evidence. No performance conclusion is drawn from appearance or material choice.
Information needed for a current mixed-colour facade
The Jintai Plaza archive is a useful design reference, but a current facade must be specified around its own elevations, support conditions, exposure and applicable standards. Begin with a colour-and-module schedule that keeps the design intent measurable from sampling through installation.
- elevations showing every colour, module, joint, corner, return, opening and special piece;
- current item references, dimensions, thicknesses, surface finish and approved colour-range samples;
- substrate, rails, clips, anchors, cavity, insulation, drainage, movement and fire-stopping responsibilities;
- project location, exposure, design actions, applicable standards and system-level test or calculation requirements;
- quantity by type and colour, cutting and spare assumptions, traceability, packaging and programme; and
- mock-up, inspection, installation and maintenance criteria, including an agreed process for natural colour variation.
Use the current Terracotta Rainscreen page as a product-family starting point, then compare built work in the Project Gallery. Request current samples, drawings and evidence for the actual facade rather than treating this 2020 archive as a live specification.
Develop a controlled three-colour terracotta schedule
Share the project location, elevations, panel modules, colour proportions, surface intent, support concept, evidence requirements, quantity and programme for a project-specific review.