Xinjiang College of Arts (XCA) is the only college focusing on regional culture and art in Northwestern China. This is the newly expanded campus located in Urumqi with a land area of 800 mu (about 131 acres). Its hilly site has over 50 meters rise from the south to the north of the site. Collaborating with a local design institute, we provided consulting services in the master plan of the overall campus and architectural design of almost all individual buildings. 

Our master plan follows the principle of sustainability and pays tribute to economic, contextual, cultural, and humanistic factors. The plan organizes different functional zones along a central axis. It takes advantage of site terrain and places buildings to avoid extensive cut and fill.

The Music Hall is designed with contemporary forms that emulate the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang and Uyghur women’s graceful dancing costumes.

The main library’s colonnade and the patterned wall behind it were inspired by Xinjiang’s domestic housing and Uyghur’s silk texture.

There are spatial variations from traditional courtyards in the dorm zone and open falling water and colonnade at the main library and academic zone. The planned enrollment is 5000 students with a total gross building area of about 187,000 square meters. Our architectural design takes inspiration from Xinjiang culture. Regional materials are widely used. Elements of Uyghur architecture are introduced with modern and artistic expressions. This includes color, pattern, and spatial forms