Changsha Evening News, September 21st (all media reporter Chen Huanming, intern Fu Yaling) At the foot of Yuelu Mountain, Qingfengxiakou, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with layers of green hills. Hunan University is in front of Xiangshui River, with Yuelu Mountain in the back, surrounded by mountains and rivers, surrounded by trees and shades, the environment is quiet and elegant, and a beautiful building complex is in the middle without being obtrusive. The natural landscape and the human landscape are integrated and highly coordinated. . In 2017, the architectural complex of Hunan University was selected into the list of "China's 20th Century Architectural Heritage", becoming a veritable national heritage. Many historical buildings are preserved on the campus, such as Yuelu Academy, science and technology museum, auditorium, etc., all of which are unique, and the bright orange-red tone is unforgettable; while the newly built library, Adventist House, Graduate schools, etc., are very modern. The reporter followed the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau's "Fine Changsha Everyone Talks" event to enter Hunan University to see how the classical and modern collide here, making the buildings of Hunan University splendid and inherited.
Yuelu Academy has accumulated the weight of history
Millennium Academy, there are endless songs. Hunan University has gone through a long historical period of campus construction and gradually formed its current campus form. Hunan University has both ancient architectural models of Huxiang, represented by Yuelu Academy, and early modernist buildings designed by modern architectural masters such as Liu Dunzhen, Cai Zefeng and Liu Shiying. Since the reform and opening up, a group of contemporary architects have emerged, represented by Wu Jiguang and Wei Chunyu . These buildings all confirm the history of the development of Hunan University campus.
"China's university buildings are listed as national key cultural relics protection units , there are more than a dozen universities, and Hunan University is unique in that it has two national treasure-level buildings, one is the ancient Yuelu Academy, the other It is the early building complex of Hunan University in modern times.” Liu Su, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Architecture and Planning of Hunan University, introduced that we usually have a saying that architecture is the history of stone, so the campus buildings of Hunan University can be said to be A history book on the history of Chinese education from ancient times to modern times.
The bronze-colored bottom plate and the golden gate of the four-character "Yuelu Academy", together with the couplet of "Only Chu Youcai, Yu Siweisheng" constitute the gate of Yuelu Academy. Liu Su introduced that in the past, Yuelu Academy was divided into two parts, the Confucian Temple on the left and the Academy on the right. The Confucian Temple is a place to worship Confucius. Compared with the academy with white walls and grey tiles on the right, the red walls and yellow tiles symbolize the high status of the Confucian Temple at that time. Today, Yuelu Academy has become three parts, and a new Chinese Academy Museum has been built in the south, which is the only museum dedicated to academies in the country.
The perfect fusion of classical and modern in architecture
"Hunan University was originally developed from Yuelu Academy." Liu Su said that the early architectural complex of Hunan University has experienced three eras, one is before the Anti-Japanese War, that is, in the second century of the last century In the 1930s, the Second Academy, the school office building, and the library that was later bombed; during the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hunan University first moved to Chenxi, Xiangxi, and then returned to the school after the Anti-Japanese War to rebuild the North Building, student dormitories, Shengli Zhai and other buildings; in the early 1950s, the Science Museum and the Auditorium were built. The
Science Museum was originally a two-story building with Western classical style designed by designer Cai Zefeng. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese modern architect Liu Shiying added an extra layer on the basis of retaining the original style, while retaining the original roof platform. railing. "This building has a special historical value. The surrender ceremony of the Hengyue area, commander of the Fourth Front of the Chinese Theater in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was held in the conference room on the south side of the second floor." Liu Su introduced. The
auditorium, designed by Liu Shiying, is a complex that combines Chinese and Western, classical and modern elements. " architectural history is an important manifestation of the country's development history. We must preserve these historical buildings so that we can see the history. We must keep these buildings, and their value and significance are here." Liu Su said . The new library, the Adventist House and the Graduate School of Hunan University are the representatives of the new buildings, which combine history and art, and undertake the cultural lifeline. After walking into the main entrance of the new library of Hunan University, what you see is a typical space in traditional buildings - the patio. The building cleverly organizes the circulation of readers, staff and books around the patio, so that the three circulations do not interfere with each other. The New Library and Yuelu BooksThe courtyard and the old museum form an axis from west to east, linking the historical context from ancient times to modern times and then to modern times.
Fulin She Teaching Building was built in 2000. It was designed by Professor Wei Chunyu, who was Dean of School of Architecture at the time. It is the critical point between the old building and the new campus. The famous mountain is included in the foothills”, adopting a series of methods to achieve the symbiosis and integration of architecture and environment. "The building adopts a frame structure as a whole, with five floors in total, four above ground and one underground, with a height of about 24 meters." said Xu Feng, professor and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Hunan University. The large glass curtain wall at the entrance is elegant and elegant. It does not lose the atmosphere and softens the façade; the scissor stairs in the hall not only guarantee the longitudinal circulation of the teaching building, but also expand a space on each stair platform.
Xu Feng introduced that the graduate school building of Tianma New Campus of Hunan University uses courtyards, patios, terraces, slits and other geographical space types to cut and hollow out the huge volume of 20,000 square meters in different directions. It is a modern derivation of the space form of Yuelu Academy, which is an architectural entity with a strong 'sculptural sense' and a breathing body full of voids.
