As a historic and famous university located in Southeast coast of China, the campuses of Xiamen University in early years feature traditional red clay bricks, which is the typical architectural style specific to the southern regions of Fujian Province. Therefore, when designing the external walls of the buildings at its new campus, the architectural designers wish to make innovation while complying with the architectural style of the university’s old campuses. Finally, the designers choose Terracotta Panel as the external wall material because it is as natural and environment-friendly as traditional clay brick. The new campus is applied with terracotta tiles of a smaller dimension (120mm wide * 300mm long) that are much smaller than normal terracotta tiles but nearly double the dimension of traditional red clay bricks. With such Terracotta Panels used extensively across the external walls, the new campus is extraordinarily charm and elegant, without loosing the characteristics of the red-brick old campus.
