Dongguan Middle School

When the morning light passes over the wall, the architectural texture of Dongguan Middle School is unfolding its narrative with the pen of time.

The vertical brushed patterns on the surface of the terracotta panel are the time codes carved on the clay by the craftsman using a metal comb.

Every tiny ravine contains the breath of the Lingnan monsoon

Glows like matte silk in the sun

The architect casts the literati image of “Inkstone and Ink Rhythm” into the language of building materials

The flat ceramic panels are laid out in a strict modular array, unfolding on the facade of the teaching building like the pages of an ancient book.

The brushed texture gradually becomes denser and denser at the corners, just like the dry and moist change of ink on rice paper.

When rainwater slides along the texture of the terracotta panel, it will imprint a dynamic landscape pattern on the wall.

Let this gray terracotta panel with handmade warmth

It not only becomes a solid barrier against wind and rain, but also turns into a three-dimensional ink painting growing on the surface of the building.

Let rational architectural logic and emotional artistic expression

Complete chords across time and space between brushed textures