Wisdom Plaza, Shenzhen

Shen Yun Lu, Nanshan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, China

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Wisdom Plaza, Shenzhen

Shen Yun Lu, Nanshan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, China

Firm

MAPA

Type

Commercial › Office

YEAR

2011

SIZE

1,000,000 +

Wisdom Plaza is a low density office and
commercial estate that consists of four office blocks linked by a landscaped
garden with a partly submerged commercial space. It is conceived as a unique
looking built-form, green and sustainable office complex that allow users
maximum flexibility in layout design amid a lush, green, landscaped
environment. Many unique architectural features previously not seen in office
space design: VIP/non-VIP lift lobbies; structural drop-slabs; column-less
office space; large cantilevered balconies; and void-deck spaces; are produced
here resulting in a delightful and highly functional new form.

The large balconies became the main architectural elements that encompass
the overall language of the built-form. The old Chinese saying of ‘The sky is
round; the earth is square’ and ‘The Outside is round; its Inside the square’,
dictates the choice of form of the buildings. The balconies are designed as
curved elements, each with a different size that results in an overall vertical
curve. The balconies stretch and bend to engulf the rectangular slab blocks to
create a strong and rhythmic structure; which together with minute nuances and
details, produce a unique architecture form. The overall ‘biomorphic’ effect
could be read as affiliations to elements like ‘bamboo, ocean waves or a ship’s
bow’.