Creative-industry project · archived facade record
A quiet grey terracotta grid at Fuzhou Creative Industrial Zone
Four archive photographs show grey terracotta panel fields coordinated with repeated window bays and blue-tinted glazing. The source identifies the project and cladding colour/product family, but supplies no designer, completion year, model, dimensions, area or quantity.
- Project
- Fuzhou Creative Industrial Zone
- Location
- Fuzhou, China; precise site not supplied
- Use
- Creative-industry zone; building use not specified
- Project team
- Not supplied in the source
- Completion year
- Not supplied; article published 2017
- Cladding
- Grey LOPO terracotta facade/rainscreen panels
- Model / dimensions
- Not supplied
- Facade area / quantity
- Not supplied
What the photographs establish
Measured grey field
The panel grid gives the elevations a restrained background. “Stable” and “elegant” were subjective words in the old article; the observable facts are the grey tone, regular joints and consistent field around openings.
Window-bay repetition
Vertical window groups and smaller projecting windows interrupt the horizontal panel courses. The layout depends on coordinated reveals, heads, sills, joints and panel cuts—not on colour alone.
Contrast with glazing
Blue sky and glass create a changing contrast with the neutral cladding. A current project should approve grey colour/texture under agreed light and viewing conditions rather than matching a screen photograph.
Product record: grey panels, with no model data
The source says LOPO grey terracotta facade panels were selected for the exterior and later calls the building a grey rainscreen-clad building. One old hyperlink points to a separate 3D-inkjet/wood-look article, but the Fuzhou text does not identify a wood-look surface, product code or printed pattern. This replacement therefore records only the stated grey terracotta panel/rainscreen family.
Current product identity, dimensions, thickness, surface, colour code, joint profile, clips/rails, anchors, substrate and replacement matching require project-specific supplier and as-built records.
Transferable coordination lessons
Set the grid from openings and edges
Coordinate panel module and joints with window bays, reveals, heads, sills, corners, base/soffit conditions and the central glazed zone. Do not scale panel dimensions from these 500px photographs.
Approve the actual grey surface
Use identified physical samples and a permitted range under stated lighting, orientation and viewing conditions. Record batch/blending strategy and mock up representative windows, joints and transitions.
Engineer the complete rainscreen
Verify panel supports, subframe, anchors, backing structure, loads, movement, tolerances, water/drainage, cavity/fire interfaces and replacement access for the new project. The completed appearance is not system evidence.
Preserve traceability and service information
Link approved item/samples to production batches, packaging, installed locations and nonconformance records. Plan access, inspection, surface-specific cleaning, damage response, spares and replacement.
Case-study limits
- Do not use 8 September 2017 as the project completion date.
- Do not attribute design, engineering, manufacture, installation or contract responsibility to an unnamed party.
- Do not infer model, dimensions, thickness, facade area, quantity, support spacing or current availability from the photographs.
- Do not treat the unrelated global creative-economy statistics in the old article as project facts; they were removed because no source was provided.
- Do not use this precedent as proof of structural, water, fire, environmental, durability or maintenance performance for another assembly.
Develop a current grey-panel facade brief
Send the project location, elevations, window/interface grid, panel module, grey sample reference, backing structure, system/evidence requirements, quantity, programme, packaging and maintenance needs.