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Shanghai-based DUTS design structures civic, commercial, and educational environments through luminous geometric volumes, balancing exposed structural trusses and micro-perforated lattice skins with expressive interior color forms visible through continuous glazing. This portfolio provides a clear reference when detailing multi-story glazed corners housing sculptural staircases, specifying micro-perforated portal enclosures, or integrating sunken subterranean courtyards into civic landscapes.

Exterior facade of a modernized school building featuring grey panels and a prominent central red vertical frame by DUTS design.

06南京:南师大紫金校区改造项目

上海

An institutional campus facade intervention using bold red framing to punctuate grey panelized volumes and create a clear entry axis.

What we like about this project
The central red frame extends outward as a monumental portal housing cantilevered stacked balconies.

Materials

  • metal-panels
  • glass
  • concrete
  • paint

Visual identifiers

  • red-vertical-frame
  • grey-cladding-panels
  • cantilevered-volume
  • campus-plaza

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • renovation
  • institutional

Visual tags

  • institutional
  • modernization
  • facade-intervention
  • color-accent
  • campus-architecture
Geometry
Asymmetrical composition anchored by a projecting multi-story vertical red frame that cuts through horizontal grey massing blocks.
Facade system
Composite metal panel rainscreen with structural glass curtain wall and projecting balconies.
Structural guess
Concrete frame structure with expressed steel or composite entryway extension.
Spatial scale
Large institutional campus scale, roughly four stories high with a prominent double-height ground floor.
Lighting
Bright daylight with clear blue sky and soft shadows cast across the paved forecourt.
Atmosphere
Clean, structured, and vibrant institutional environment under bright daylight.
Environmental context
Surrounded by mature trees and paved public plaza space in an institutional campus setting.
Spatial experience
The deep red vertical portal creates a clear focal entrance point that draws the eye upward from the expansive paved plaza.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal strip windows contrasted against a strong vertical central accent.
Style reading
Contemporary institutional renovation
Program
University campus building or library
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
metal-panels, glass, concrete, paint
Visual identifiers
red-vertical-frame, grey-cladding-panels, cantilevered-volume, campus-plaza
Style tags
contemporary, renovation, institutional
Visual tags
institutional, modernization, facade-intervention, color-accent, campus-architecture
Geometry
Asymmetrical composition anchored by a projecting multi-story vertical red frame that cuts through horizontal grey massing blocks.
Facade system
Composite metal panel rainscreen with structural glass curtain wall and projecting balconies.
Structural guess
Concrete frame structure with expressed steel or composite entryway extension.
Spatial scale
Large institutional campus scale, roughly four stories high with a prominent double-height ground floor.
Lighting
Bright daylight with clear blue sky and soft shadows cast across the paved forecourt.
Atmosphere
Clean, structured, and vibrant institutional environment under bright daylight.
Environmental context
Surrounded by mature trees and paved public plaza space in an institutional campus setting.
Spatial experience
The deep red vertical portal creates a clear focal entrance point that draws the eye upward from the expansive paved plaza.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal strip windows contrasted against a strong vertical central accent.
Style reading
Contemporary institutional renovation
Program
University campus building or library
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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Exterior facade of a modernized school building featuring grey panels and a prominent central red vertical frame by DUTS design.

06南京:南师大紫金校区改造项目

上海

An institutional campus facade intervention using bold red framing to punctuate grey panelized volumes and create a clear entry axis.

What we like about this project
The central red frame extends outward as a monumental portal housing cantilevered stacked balconies.

Materials

  • metal-panels
  • glass
  • concrete
  • paint

Visual identifiers

  • red-vertical-frame
  • grey-cladding-panels
  • cantilevered-volume
  • campus-plaza

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • renovation
  • institutional

Visual tags

  • institutional
  • modernization
  • facade-intervention
  • color-accent
  • campus-architecture
Geometry
Asymmetrical composition anchored by a projecting multi-story vertical red frame that cuts through horizontal grey massing blocks.
Facade system
Composite metal panel rainscreen with structural glass curtain wall and projecting balconies.
Structural guess
Concrete frame structure with expressed steel or composite entryway extension.
Spatial scale
Large institutional campus scale, roughly four stories high with a prominent double-height ground floor.
Lighting
Bright daylight with clear blue sky and soft shadows cast across the paved forecourt.
Atmosphere
Clean, structured, and vibrant institutional environment under bright daylight.
Environmental context
Surrounded by mature trees and paved public plaza space in an institutional campus setting.
Spatial experience
The deep red vertical portal creates a clear focal entrance point that draws the eye upward from the expansive paved plaza.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal strip windows contrasted against a strong vertical central accent.
Style reading
Contemporary institutional renovation
Program
University campus building or library
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
metal-panels, glass, concrete, paint
Visual identifiers
red-vertical-frame, grey-cladding-panels, cantilevered-volume, campus-plaza
Style tags
contemporary, renovation, institutional
Visual tags
institutional, modernization, facade-intervention, color-accent, campus-architecture
Geometry
Asymmetrical composition anchored by a projecting multi-story vertical red frame that cuts through horizontal grey massing blocks.
Facade system
Composite metal panel rainscreen with structural glass curtain wall and projecting balconies.
Structural guess
Concrete frame structure with expressed steel or composite entryway extension.
Spatial scale
Large institutional campus scale, roughly four stories high with a prominent double-height ground floor.
Lighting
Bright daylight with clear blue sky and soft shadows cast across the paved forecourt.
Atmosphere
Clean, structured, and vibrant institutional environment under bright daylight.
Environmental context
Surrounded by mature trees and paved public plaza space in an institutional campus setting.
Spatial experience
The deep red vertical portal creates a clear focal entrance point that draws the eye upward from the expansive paved plaza.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal strip windows contrasted against a strong vertical central accent.
Style reading
Contemporary institutional renovation
Program
University campus building or library
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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