Hankou Bank Archives Center

The archive center uses gray and white flat terracotta panels as paper to imprint the rational poetics of financial architecture.

The texture of the terracotta panel, which has been calcined at high temperatures, glows with a pure luster like rice paper in the sunlight.

The rhythm laid out horizontally is like turning the pages of an ancient book

However, the sharp outline of modernism is articulated with millimeter precision.

When rainwater flows over the wall, the natural breathing holes of the clay will cause the water marks to turn into light ink chaffing patterns.

Just like the blank space in Chu Di silk paintings

Architects put the "bisque firing" process of Eastern Hubei pottery intangible cultural heritage into parallel with parametric design

When gray and white tones wrap around the heavy volume of the archives

The building has become a three-dimensional classic erected in the city - each terracotta panel is a solidified sentence reading

In the interplay of light and shadow, the Eastern philosophy of "hidden" and "revealed" is softly recited.