The appearance of the building derives from hill and valley; it includes various slight incline changes and inspire people to associate with the space and scale of Ningbo local traditional villages.
The 1:1recovery of the Tuoshanyan of Tang Dynasty becomes the access way to the main entrance of the building. Tanshanyan is the earliest heritage of the localized cultural antiquity, symbolizes the historic point.
The skin of the building is "Wa Pan"wall, which represents the local architectural technique(the typology of brick layers with local characteristics). Taking into consideration of the structural mechanics requirement for the 23.95meters height, the wall was laid with various changes, recalling the memory of the Jiangnan ancient city and direct association of the historical layer sections anthropologically of the viewers.