School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Nanjing University has always emphasized onimparting knowledge of construc-tion to students,who have the opportunity to handle real material and scale in construction activities. May 20th, 2012 is the 110thanniversary of Nanjing University. Departmentofarchitecture took this opportunity to host China Students Construction Festival, organizing students to conduct construc-tion activity. During the festival, two buildings and one architectural landscape were built. As the leader of Group One,I experienced the overal pro-cess from design to construction.This paper gives brief introduction to the new understanding of de-sign and construction in terms of site, module, function, structure, construction and envelope.