Former Site of Wuhu Nisi Advanced Industrial Vocational School

Former Site of Wuhu Nisi Advanced Industrial Vocational School

The former site of Wuhu Nisi Advanced Industrial Vocational School is a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

The former site of Wuhu Nisi Advanced Industrial Vocational School is located at No. 26, Jihé South Road, Jinghu District, Wuhu City, Anhui Province, within the campus of Anhui Technical College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Designed and supervised by Spanish friar Pu Lu, it was built in 1934 and primarily served as an educational facility. It features five floors at the base and two on the hillside, with a stepped design that maximizes spatial efficiency. Covering an area of 4,133.88 square meters with a construction area of 11,483.00 square meters, the building has a floor plan in the shape of a "日" (sun) character. This structure is rare in the province and showcases typical European architectural style. Built with a reinforced concrete structure supported by beams and columns, it employs numerous arches to distribute the building's pressure onto the columns, demonstrating an excellent application of mechanical principles. At the same time, it also takes into account the aesthetic preferences and expressive forms of traditional Chinese architecture, featuring Huizhou-style horse-head gables on the gable walls. It stands as one of the successful examples of the perfect integration of Chinese and Western architectural styles.

Protective boundary: 50 meters east to Qingshan Street, 30 meters south to Jiaotong Lane, 10 meters west to the school library, and 20 meters north to the school laboratory building.

Construction control zone: 50 meters east, 70 meters south, 90 meters west, and 80 meters north beyond the protective boundary.

Further reading:

· Eighth Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units