At the heart of the media campus, the Library & Information Center uses height and the shaping of daylight to engage with Qingzhen’s educational memory, particularly its early twentieth-century church schools. Lofty halls, coloured glazing and sculptural light wells create an atmosphere that is contemplative and expansive. The spatial experience associated with this history enters contemporary reading and study, giving the campus an intellectual and spiritual centre.

Two volumes follow the slope along a north–south direction. The student library to the south faces the campus entrance, marking a visual threshold between the open campus and the interior. To the north, a volume encloses courtyards and accommodates offices and studios, establishing a progression towards more inward-looking spaces. Local red sand is mixed into the exterior coating, relating its colour to the surrounding iron-rich weathered rock. The sloping profiles of the east and west elevations echo the terrain, giving the substantial building the appearance of growing from the land.

Courtyards inserted into a regular grid bring daylight and air into the compact building. Their arrangement draws on the courts nested within courts of regional hillside settlements and traditional Chinese academies, with connected learning spaces unfolding between them.

The recurring interior arches carry an impression of the spaces associated with the area’s former church-run schools. Their repeated forms, the height of the halls and the coloured daylight together evoke a dignified, contemplative atmosphere of learning. This remembered impression takes shape through the spatial organisation of a contemporary library: parallel arches open views through several planes, while those enclosing halls and inner courts define reading places that remain visible to one another. As people move, the openings align and shift, bringing nearby enclosure and distant depth into view together. This arrangement allows individual concentration to coexist with a sense of learning together, making the memory of earlier educational settings tangible in the everyday experience of reading.

Groups of light wells descend from the roof to different heights. Inclined glazed faces and tapering sides shape the daylight and bring a soft light into the reading areas. Red, yellow and blue are given associations with vitality, the sacred and wisdom within the design. Light entering at different angles also creates a theatrical effect, recalling stage lighting and the campus’s focus on broadcasting, film and media education. Height, coloured light and the form of the light wells work together to give everyday study a distinct spiritual atmosphere.