位于杭州的中国美术学院（CAA）共有两个校区：老校区在市中心，毗邻西湖；新校区位于郊区，面积也更大。在新校区，随处可以看见建筑师王澍的作品：这里大部分的建筑由他设计。该项目开始于王澍获得2012年普利兹克奖之前，从工作开始初期，项目团队得到了王澍和她同为建筑师的妻子陆文宇的大力帮助。

The Chinese Academy of Art (CAA) in Hangzhou has two campuses. One is in the city center, near West Lake, and a new larger campus is in the outskirts.  The presence of the architect Wang Shu is ubiquitous on the new campus: most of it buildings were designed by him. When we started on this work, he had not yet received the 2012 Pritzker Prize. The help that we received from both of him and his architect wife Lu Wenyu during the early stages of our work – and even today -, were and continue to be fundamental.

▼项目概览，preview ©Fernando Guerra

▼博物馆外观，exterior view ©Fernando Guerra

中国美术学院的巨大馆藏及其从包豪斯学校获得的大批原始藏品是该项目得以诞生的根源所在。为了汇集丰富的馆藏和其他临时展览，需要建造一座能够满足一些特定功能、同时又富有特色的博物馆。

The huge CAA collection and its recent acquisition of a large set of originals items from the Bauhaus School prompted the idea of a museum for the permanent collection along with other works and temporary exhibitions. We were given a characteristic museum brief, apart from some specific features.

▼博物馆和校园环境，the museum in the school campus ©Fernando Guerra