The China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and China Academy of Art in Xiangshan are taking a major role In art education. In the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the museum designed by Arata Isozaki has recently been completed, being the answer to the modern campus thronged with buildings in the city in Beijing. On the other hand, we are planning to build a new type of university museum in harmony with mountains with small tea gardens in a beautiful natural environment within the suburbs of Hangzhou.

As a result of studies in which an arrangement was made that no slopes would be cut of modified and that the architecture would be configured to closely relate to mountain slopes, a lozenge shaped pattern naturally appeared in a contour line. The lozenge appeared not only in plan but also in elevation and in three dimensions as well. I finally understood that the mountains as a topographical existence appear as triangles in elevation. The diagram of lozenges generates a fluid exhibition space with linear and alternating floor levels and with the partially external spaces which appear in between.

Clay tiles and stones in the old house in the district are to be gathered as reusable materials, and the details to build a three dimensional body with these materials are now being investigated. This methodology proposes the idea that rather than gardens being put in contrast to architecture, the soil of the tea gardens is actually transformed into the architecture.