A red terracotta volume and a carved lobby wall form focused accents within the pale-stone Wuzhi Planning Exhibition Hall.
The Chinese name 武陟规划展览馆 is readable in the sixth original photograph, so this is an identifiable public-building case rather than an anonymous showroom. The six-image archive is retained while supplier statements are separated from independently traceable project context.
Project record at a glance
| Project name | Wuzhi Planning Exhibition Hall (武陟规划展览馆), confirmed by the lobby sign in body image 6 and public reporting on Wuzhi Industrial New City |
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| Location | Beside Longze Lake in Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo, Henan, China, according to LOPO’s 10 November 2020 supplier archive. A precise street address is not published in the checked project sources. |
| Programme | A public exhibition and planning venue associated with Wuzhi Industrial New City. Public reporting confirms the building’s existence and use; it does not provide a room schedule or material contract. |
| Construction timing | A 13 June 2018 report sourced to Henan Daily says the hall was one of eight projects begun in November 2016 and lists it among infrastructure completed by June 2018. Exact completion, acceptance and opening dates were not located. |
| Area | LOPO’s supplier page records a 20,926 m² site and 8,689.76 m² gross floor area. No checked planning or completion document independently confirms these figures, so they remain dated supplier-side context. |
| Development record | The same 2018 report confirms Wuzhi County government and China Fortune Land Development entered a PPP for the wider industrial new city. LOPO’s archive attributes joint construction and operation of this hall to them, but the building-specific ownership/operator agreement was not found. |
| Architect and contractors | Not named in the checked sources. No architect, design institute, main contractor, facade contractor or installer is inferred. |
| LOPO/material record | LOPO’s own archive says it produced red sandblasted terracotta wall panels and a smaller quantity of custom micro-carved terracotta. This supports a manufacturer/supplier-side record only, not design, engineering, system or installation responsibility. |
| Model, size and quantity | No item number, panel dimensions, thickness, unit count or terracotta area is disclosed. Do not scale the photographs or substitute a current product schedule. |
Identity and historical date boundary
The original title’s generic “Exhibition Hall” undersells a traceable case. The lobby image carries the Chinese project name, while 2018 and 2019 public reports place the hall within Wuzhi Industrial New City and describe active public/operations use. This is enough to publish the project identity and broad location.
It is not enough to assign a precise completion day, architect or contractor. November 2020 is the date of LOPO’s supplier story and the WordPress post, not the building’s handover year. The dated public record supports only the narrower statement that the hall was reported completed by June 2018.
A concentrated terracotta colour field
The archive describes light yellow natural stone as the principal external finish and Chinese-red terracotta as a more concentrated material at the atrium and lobby. The photographs support that visual relationship: broad pale planes frame a largely uninterrupted red volume, while dark glazing and bamboo provide contrasting edges.
Colour hierarchy
Terracotta is an accent rather than the only facade material. Its saturated earth-red tone is legible from the approach and continues into the lobby, linking exterior and interior views.
Panel rhythm
Regular horizontal courses and staggered vertical joints give the large volume a measured scale. No face dimension should be inferred from the image or treated as a standard module.
Material interfaces
Stone, terracotta, glazing, soffits, planted courts and internal finishes meet at multiple edges. Those visual junctions do not reveal flashings, movement joints, anchors or fire stopping.
Sandblasted and micro-carved surface record
According to LOPO’s supplier archive, the primary red panels have a sandblasted surface. The close image shows a fine granular visual texture, but photography cannot establish the manufacturing process, abrasion resistance, cleaning behaviour, colour range or current availability. A physical approved sample and current product documentation must control any new selection.
The supplier article also describes two red shades at the lobby and a limited group of micro-carved panels carrying a Yellow River cultural motif. The sixth photograph visibly supports a lighter carved band above the reception wall; it does not disclose the artwork source, panel schedule, carving depth, rights, fabrication tolerances or quantity.
Evidence needed before reusing the precedent
- separate exterior, atrium and interior zones, exposure and substrate conditions;
- define the red shade range, sandblasted reference, carved artwork, edge treatment and approved physical samples;
- schedule modules, thickness/profile, joints, corners, openings, special units and permitted tolerances;
- coordinate supports, loads, movement, drainage, fire strategy, interfaces and falling-object risk with the project team;
- match tests and mock-ups to the actual product, fixing and complete assembly; and
- plan batch control, installation inspection, cleaning, repair, spare stock and as-built handover.
The photographs do not prove structural, fire, water, thermal, acoustic, weathering, colour-fastness, environmental or service-life performance. Review current system information on Terracotta Rainscreen and compare other documented appearances in the Architectural Terracotta Gallery; suitability remains project-specific.
Discuss a red or carved terracotta wall
Share the project location, elevations, interior/exterior zones, target samples and artwork, proposed modules, substrate/support route, applicable criteria, quantities, programme, mock-up plan and required evidence. This 2020 archive is a design precedent, not a transferable specification.