The 11^th ZJU-CEU Workshop Successfully Started

The 24^th Go Global team led by Vice Director He Yong and Cheng Guanglin , Associate Professor Jin Fang and Wu Jing, attended by 12 undergraduate and postgraduate students from the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture arrived in Madrid on March 10^th for a 2-week workshop and field research on architecture in Spain. This means that the ZJU-CEU Workshop which had been stalled for 4 years due to the epidemic has restarted officially.

Workshop

Professor He Yong delivered a speech on “Promoting the Integration of people with Design”. Chinese students gave presentations on five topics of site analysis, the history of Shaoxing, Shaoxing’s cultural characteristics, Shaoxing’s residential houses, and the concept of sharing, because of the site of the design exercise this year - Shaoxing Yangming Cultural Centre – is in China. Afterwards, the students from both countries were mixed into 11 groups and put forward a series of preliminary design concepts after deep discussions on site analysis, design strategy and other issues. Professors from both sides gave them comments and suggestions.

After the communication on CEU campus, ZJU students then went to visit Bilboa, Pamplona, San Sebastian, Mérida, Córdoba, Granada, Barcelona and other cities and did field research on architecture.

Introduction

The joint teaching program ZJU-CEU Workshop between Zhejiang University (ZJU) and Universidad San Pablo CEU (CEU) in Spain has been successfully carried out for 10 years from 2010 until the epidemic. Through the efforts of both universities, this long-term academic cooperation has achieved fruitful results. Over the past ten years, more than twenty teachers and 160 students from the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture have participated in this program, the results of which have been summarized in the book ZJU-CEU WORKSHOP 2010-2019, which will soon be published jointly by the publishing offices of the two universities.