The roof design of the Institute of Technology building is unique. The lower eaves are glazed tiles of Kongquelan, the top floor is made of transparent glass, and then four inverted orange pottery rows are stacked into a pagoda shape to form a pyramid-shaped roof with four corners and two eaves. The combination of red, white and blue in Fiona Fang has formed a rare roof form at home and abroad.
On the four corners of the double roof of the Institute of Technology building, there are eight sculptures of "immortals riding horses", and behind each riding "immortals" on the four lower eaves, there are eight "spiny beasts" (six on the upper eaves), which are more than those on the roofs of other buildings on campus, such as the old library and the Songqing Gymnasium.
The main building of Institute of Technology is five stories high, and its main plane is square. The top of the building is made of glass with double eaves and four slopes, and the center is a closed patio with concentrated lighting, forming a five-story enjoyment hall surrounded by cloisters, which serves as a channel for horizontal communication between floors and a public space for students' recess activities. The basement downstairs is the exhibition hall of scientific and technological achievements, and an underground passage is set in front of the main building, which can directly enter and exit the hall from the road in front of the building. Because the steel beam roof truss and transparent glass are used as the roof, sunlight can directly enter the hall from the top, forming a bright "glass atrium", which makes people fully feel the light and shadow effect and the interest brought by spatial changes. From the glass roof with sharp corners and double eaves to the glass atrium structure, Wuhan University Engineering Building is one of the earliest buildings in the world to enjoy this architectural trend with space. In foreign architectural circles, the design art of "shared space" and "glass atrium" gradually became popular in large public buildings after the 1960s.
There are obvious "corners" on the square walls of the main building of the Institute of Technology, because the traditional walls in China are inclined. In order to make the architectural style conform to the requirements of traditional forms, the method of chamfering the four corners of the external wall is adopted, and the illusion of inclined wall is created by human visual error, so that this modern building also has the charm of traditional China architecture. At the same time, for the sake of overall coordination, the stone railings above the oblique angle adopt a unique fillet transition.
The details of the main building of the Institute of Technology are also very particular, integrating beauty and practicality. For example, there are many rare lion-faced animal decorations in traditional buildings in China above the city wall, which are unique; Under the eaves at the four corners of the roof, there are four disc-shaped buckets, called "dew trays", which are shaped like chandeliers, but are actually the drainage outlets of the roof, which not only undertake the centralized drainage of rainwater on the double-deck roof, but also beautify the eaves.
There is an annex building at the four corners of the main building of the Institute of Technology, which is symmetrical with the main building and the four corners are opposite. These four annex buildings were the office buildings of the civil, mechanical, electrical, mining and metallurgy departments of the Institute of Technology at that time, as well as the office buildings of research institutes and laboratories. They are all rectangular, with an inner corridor, a single eaves, a roof facing the mountain and malachite green glazed tiles. The tall wall of the main building is beautified by a large area of floor-to-ceiling glass windows and sloping corners, and the four corners are protected by green glazed tiles on the top of the mountain and Chinese annex buildings, which is more elegant, elegant and magnificent.