• Shenzhen Guangming High-Tech Park

    Client: Shenzhen Baoan District Planning & Construction Management Office
    Status:     Invited Competition
    Type:     Commerical
    Size:     101,300m2
    Location:     Shenzehn, China
    Collaborators:     Joint Venture between JET Architecture and AIM Group

    The Guangming High-Tech Park is located at the border of a natural environment and manmade city. To the north, a mountain faces the park; bordering the south is a heavy developing industrial district. The contrast of nature versus manmade presents an opportunity for High Tech Park to act as a connector through architecture and planning. The design is aimed to create a new type of office complex where the public can easily access all of its various program functions, while generating greater use of the site by the general public. The complex then, providing multi-use spaces, would service private sector/ commercial needs while affording the public free open space to enjoy.

    The development is organized into three phases consisting of office, retail and leisure components as the main program masses.

    The ground level is opened up, making way for a vast open area with generous atria allowing the people to pass through a public plaza to reach the mountain on the other side. The plaza acts as a bridge for the site’s edge condition, connecting the HTP from the industrial south to the mountainside.

    A public ramp is introduced to connect all the levels, both public and private. The curved ramp is accentuated with window openings that frame the scenery of the surrounding nature as people move throughout the building. The openings also function as spatial organization elements between office spacing as well as facilitate natural daylighting and ventilation. The internal circulation at each level is connected to the exterior via elevated outdoor platforms that intersect with the main public ramp, creating continuity as one moves in and out of the building.

    The design of Guangming High-Tech Park goes beyond satisfying the basic requirements of providing an office block with a podium and a public plaza. It strives to challenge the typical mixed-use program through the creation of space and facilities that will accommodate private use as well as public functions. The complex, then, would be just as much a public attraction as it is functional for commercial use.