While the 798 Art District was expanding year after year to the east, the scope of the Jiuxianqiao High-Tech Campus was also expanding to the west. Until one day, the two campus met on the last piece of land between the sites. Then there was a chance for art, humanities, technology and green to meet head-on. The design is not attached to either side's architectural form. It starts with the idea of temporal and spatial weaving and fusion. We want to create an office building that belongs to this era.
Coincidentally, immediately to the east of the 798 Art District, a dilapidated old vegetable market had become a hazardous building due to disrepair. According to Beijing's new 2035 masterplan, the original buildings needed to be demolished to become urban green spaces and public service facilities, thus creating this scarce site for new construction. Due to the context of this particular site, the functional needs of the campus were to increase the landscape greenery, to serve the people, and to achieve artistic innovation.
The project site is very long and narrow. We avoided creating a sense of enclosure of the building within the site stretching over 300 meters from north to south. The four towers in the art district are staggered so that the view, landscape, sunlight, and air are not disturbed by each other. The art center and restaurants are interspersed with a fully integrated environment. A north-south boulevard connects them.
The first floors of all the buildings are permeable and continuous, with sunken courtyards and green slopes enriching the relationship between the buildings and nature. During the annual exhibition season, the art center, office lobbies, restaurants, and the campus plaza can become excellent exhibition venues.
The corners of the building plan are asymmetrically indented to make the building's shape and contour lighter and more elegant. The façade is glazed glass with a white receding halo, adding to the building's naturalness and abstraction. We want it to be a group of buildings representing contemporary aesthetics and craftsmanship. It should be light, airy, elegant, and fluid.
Each office tower is 60 meters high. The core is offset to one side of the plan, with a through-height shared atrium in the center. As a result, the building receives an abundance of natural light and ventilation, and around the atrium are pleasant public areas. People's daily range of activities are in contact with the sun.
The 798 FLC adopts a new office model that nourishes the work environment with art and culture, a natural landscape, and open-sharing concepts, hoping to promote multi-dimensional interactions among people. Nowadays, no one wants to be stuck in a solid workspace, and people always go to the office for better communication. We want to create an office environment that provides as many interactive places and multi-functional shared spaces as possible.