ShenZhen , China
Yijing architectural design company created the future headquarters of Dongguan Group, a group of buildings that combines business, finance, living, culture, and leisure in “evolving three-dimensional urban forest“.
This project was short-listed for a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Located southwest where Meilin Road and Kaifeng Road meet, the tower building is 200 meters tall with 41 floors.
Within the plot, there stand Meilin Community Park in the south and Culture & Sports Center in the north; there are few super high-rise buildings within this area as well as problems of high urban density and small reconstruction plot.
Faced with the increasing scarcity of urban land resources and high floor area ratio, the architects hope to create more outdoor terraces to meet people’s diverse space demands, enable people to work in a “vertical forest,” and achieve an excellent integration of work, life and nature.
In order to bring greenery into the building and echoing the surrounding park, the team decided to cut the block vertically, let nature and the tower interweave, extending life and social interaction outdoors.
The modernist skyscraper and the contemporary interpretation of the pre-modern setback merge in a new hybrid and exciting addition to the Shenzhen skyline.
The tiered structure comes with well-arranged outdoor terraces as it rises upwards, which creates 1560 sqm of outdoor terraces full of lush greenery.
It makes green space extend all the way to the facade of the tower building facing the downtown area and provide unprecedented views of the surrounding cityscape.
With a proper angle of view, the architects make the building go lower gradually on purpose so it can better fit in with the surrounding environment.
Meanwhile, a partially open floor is arranged on the first floor to give people more public space, and a public footpath is designed to connect the building and indoor public area.
The architects wish to create a 24-hour public leisure space consisting of a café, bookstore, pub, and specialty restaurant, where everyone can enjoy a warm and green urban space.
Project: ShenZhen Meilin Dongguan Science and Technology Building
Architects: Shenzhen Yijing Architectural design Co., Ltd.
Client: Dongguan gourp
Contractor: CCDI
Photographers: Peer Vision
