Pritzker Prize-winning architect Wang Shu's Amateur Architecture Studio has designed a cultural complex clad in recycled tiles near Hangzhou, China.
The Fuyang Cultural Complex comprises of three buildings ? the Fuyang Museum,  Fuyang Archives and Gongwang Art Museum.
The complex's wave-shaped rooftops are clad in mixed tiles and traversable via staircases and paths accessed from external galleries, offering sweeping views over lush mountains.

The upward curve of the overhanging roof tips are designed to echo the fly eaves of traditional Chinese architecture, while punctures in the roofs allow stairways to rise to the rooftop-level connecting them to the buildings and creating light wells into the spaces below.
Inside the buildings the roof forms can be seen in the tent-like ceilings of the vaulted gallery spaces below, which reveal the use of contemporary textured concrete.
Wang Shu founded the Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou with his wife, Lu Wenyu, in 1998. In 2012 he was the first Chinese architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, when the jury praised his "unique ability to evoke the past, without making direct references to history".
Amateur Architecture Studio only took the commission to design the Fuyang Cultural Complex on the condition they could also work on the preservation of the local village of Wencun.

Together with students from the China Art Academy the architects made a survey of old houses in scores of villages in the area, r...