Beijing, China
Located in Changping Life Science Park, one of the three most pioneered and developed biotech zones in Beijing, Aedas designs several leaf-shaped developments, connected to each other through the backbone of Sinovac, which carries the corporate display function and public space.
For its impressive design, the Sinovac High-Tech Achievements Transformation project has been awarded a 2023 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
As a national-level innovation base for biotechnology and new medical high-tech industries, it is accelerating the construction of the world’s leading “Life Valley,” and the Sinovac High-tech Achievement Transformation project is an important part of it.
The design draws inspiration from the Tree of Life, comparing the R&D and office towers on the south side to the roots of Sinovac, and the production plant towers on the north side to the crown of Sinovac.
The air corridor connects the two parks in the north and the south, balancing the efficient flow of people and goods.
The entire park is like pines and cypresses, and its vitality coincides with the concept of protecting life and delivering health.
The simple building outline combined with the simple horizontal facade lines conveys its aesthetics of simplicity, technology, and the future, highlighting the atmosphere and elegant corporate image.
The façade of the building incorporates the use of clean energy while ensuring the design of a sense of technology.
Solar panels are arranged on the podium surface combined with the texture of the facade, and this energy is used in the operation of the entire park.
According to the calculation of solar radiation, horizontal fins are arranged on the building facade for sun shading, so as to reduce indoor energy consumption.
Beijing has the mostly northwest wind in winter and southeast wind in summer, and the building shape is adjusted through wind energy calculation.
Multiple indoor and outdoor atrium spaces make the garden space of the park comfortable and pleasant.
The overall design starts from the carbon emission of the whole life cycle of the building, including the embodied carbon emission of the building and the carbon emission of the building operation, and puts forward targeted measures to realize the real “zero” CO2.
Project: Sinovac High-Tech Achievements Transformation Project
Architects: Aedas
Lead Architects: Ken Wai, Andy Wen, and Zihuan Lin
General Contractor: China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp., Ltd
Client: LBeijing Zhongwei Yidao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Beijing Zhongwei Yidao Biotechnology Co., Ltd
Photographers: Aedas
