Qingdao Yucai Junior High School — Qingdao, China
This wood-grain terracotta facade combines white panels with warm wood-look surfaces to give the school campus a clear material identity. The original 2017 project record places the school near Qingdao’s Golden Beach, documents a 24,000 m² terracotta curtain-wall area and describes the overall composition as ship-like. This updated case study preserves those project facts and all five original photographs.
A warm counterpoint to the white campus blocks
The legacy article called the material “wood grain tile.” In this project, the phrase refers to wood-look architectural terracotta used alongside white terracotta panels, rather than a timber board or an interior wood-effect floor tile. The warm surfaces appear around entrances, lower facade zones and selected vertical volumes, while white panels define the larger frames and long horizontal bands.
That contrast helps the different parts of the campus remain legible from both the entrance and the sports field. It also gives the extensive facade a more varied scale without introducing an unrelated color family.
A ship-like composition at campus scale
The original project description compares the building to a ship. Seen across the playing field, the long horizontal facade and projecting white upper volume support that reading, while the taller warm-toned element acts as a visual marker. The wood-look and white terracotta are therefore used as parts of one composition, not as isolated decorative finishes.
From closer viewpoints, the warm panels bring texture to the walls around windows and entrances. From farther away, their color establishes a continuous rhythm against the larger white volumes. The photographs document how this relationship changes around the perimeter.
Archived product record and current references
The 2017 project page records a ventilated terracotta rainscreen and terracotta baguette, with white and wood-look colors. It also lists item references F3018003, F301889 and T50150217. These identifiers are retained as part of the project archive; they should not be read as a statement of current stock, current dimensions or an exact present-day finish match.
Specification note: The source does not state individual panel dimensions, baguette profile, fixing build-up, project year, architect, contractor or measured performance. Those details have not been inferred from the photographs or from unrelated product pages.
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