Nanchang Senior-Citizen University is retained here as an archived education-building facade case study.
The LOPO article published on 9 May 2017 places the school in Yangming Park and records two terracotta panel references, one listed module and a product quantity. This revision preserves those project fields and both original photographs while distinguishing the historical record from details the source did not establish.
An education building in Yangming Park
The 2017 source says the university is located in Yangming Park. It records a total area of 1,950 m², including 1,700 m² for teaching, and states that the facilities could accommodate more than 500 students. These entries describe the school in the archived article; they are not current enrolment, occupancy or property records.
The translated source lists classrooms for “voice,” “style,” electronic organ and computer instruction. It also describes a school purpose centred on learning, personal culture, health and social service. The copy does not identify an architect, education planner, client department, contractor, facade consultant or project date.
Facade composition visible in the archive photographs
The overview shows a warm red-orange facade used across a lower entrance volume and a taller, regularly windowed block. Repeated vertical and horizontal panel lines organize the window bays, while deeper frames and the roof-level open structures add relief at the larger building scale.
The close view records flat panel fields beside dark-framed windows, with the visible joint grid aligned to the openings. It supports discussion of colour, module rhythm and window coordination only. The photographs do not reveal the support rails, brackets, anchors, cavity, insulation, membranes, flashings, fire barriers or backing wall.
Archived panel and quantity record from 2017
The original product block uses the label “Terracotta Plate,” lists two item numbers and then gives one dimension and one total quantity. Normalized for readability, the retained fields are:
- Item numbers: F4521634 and F4521637
- Listed dimension: 450 × 900 × 21 mm
- Listed total quantity: 4,600 m²
The source does not say whether both item numbers share the listed dimension, how the 4,600 m² was measured, which code corresponds to which facade zone, or whether the quantity is ordered, supplied or installed. It also gives no colour code, finish name, panel orientation, tolerance, edge profile, joint dimension or replacement stock.
Evidence limits for this project reference
Recorded or visible
- project name and Yangming Park location in the source;
- education use, archived area entries and stated capacity;
- two item references, one dimension and one product quantity; and
- the red-orange facade, window rhythm and entrance composition in two photographs.
Not established
- architect, designer, client, contractor or installer;
- design, completion or installation year;
- contractual LOPO scope, as-built quantity or approved finish schedule;
- support, anchorage, cavity, drainage and movement details; or
- structural, wind, impact, fire, water, thermal, acoustic or regulatory results.
The article date is not treated as the building completion year. The original general claims about environmental impact, radiation, pollution, colour fading, cracking, flaking, extreme temperatures and universal climate suitability are omitted because no project-specific reports, methods or acceptance criteria were supplied.
Use the case as a facade-design reference
For a current education or community building, this project can inform an early discussion about warm colour, repeated panel modules, window alignment and the relationship between a lower public entrance and a taller teaching volume. The next stage requires current samples, drawings and complete-wall coordination for the actual building.
- current panel references, proposed dimensions, profiles, colours, finishes and acceptable variation;
- elevations and details at windows, entrances, corners, bases, parapets and movement joints;
- substrate, support, anchorage, cavity, tolerances and replacement access;
- water and drainage design, insulation, membranes and fire-barrier coordination;
- project actions, calculations, mock-ups, testing, approvals and inspection requirements; and
- current quantity, production programme, packing and delivery destination.
Qualified project teams must verify the complete assembly for structure, anchorage, wind, movement, fire, water management, drainage, thermal and acoustic requirements, installation tolerances and applicable regulations. The archived photographs, item numbers and quantities do not replace that work.
Continue to current product and project information
See the current Terracotta Rainscreen page for product-system context, then browse the Architectural Terracotta Gallery for other education, civic and facade references.
Discuss an education-building facade
Send the project location, elevations, intended panel modules and colours, interface drawings, required evidence, preliminary quantity, programme and delivery destination for a current review. Product availability, engineering, testing, approvals and complete-wall performance remain project-specific.