UAD Campus, Hangzhou Office Complex, Chinese University Building Development, Architecture Images
UAD Campus in ZITOWN
14 Dec 2021
Architects: The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, East China

As China continuously promoting the industrialization of architecture, an unconventional rapid construction mode based on prefabricated system has gradually become a mainstream in the market. Is industrialized construction a synonym of “roughness” and “low quality”" And how should it express the poetry of architecture"

The UAD Campus project is an office building (Building B1) of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD). It’s located in ZITOWN, a base of R&D company headquarters jointly developed by the government of Xihu District in Hangzhou and Zhejiang University.
UAD Campus in ZITOWN, Hangzhou
As one of the demonstrative prefabricated architecture projects selected by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, the prefabricated rate and assembly rate of this building are respectively up to 85% and 96.8%. In addition, it’s rated as a national Class-3A prefabricated building and a three-star green building.
At the beginning of the design, we put forward the idea of making use of technology to serve rather than dominate the design. We adopted ...