Wacai Headquarters Office Building by Ng Yin Seng Jason is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
SilverArchitecture· 2022
Wacai Headquarters Office Building
Client: Hortian Consultancy Pte Ltd
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Wacai Headquarters Office Building
Wacai Headquarters is an office building in Hangzhou, China, designed as a green and sustainable structure. The cylindrical form is oriented north to south and is interwoven with skyrise gardens. The shape brings natural light into the office spaces, which reduces the use of artificial lighting. Extensive landscaped areas across the site help to offset carbon emissions and to regulate the ambient temperature, lowering the reliance on climate control systems. The circular plan also uses fewer wall, floor and roof materials, giving a smaller ecological footprint.
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About the Silver A' Design Award
Wacai Headquarters Office Building is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Wacai Headquarters Office Building is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Wacai Headquarters Office Building is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The building is designed as a green and sustainable infrastructure. The building is designed to allow in natural light to minimize the use of artificial lighting in the office spaces within and features extensive landscapes to offset carbon emissions as well as to regulate the ambient temperature in a bid to cut down on the reliance of climate control systems. The buildings are north-south facing and are interweave together with skyrise gardens.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Land use: 14500 sqm
Built-up : 60150 sqm
G.F.A : 36250 sqm
Basement Carpark: 23900 sqm
Plot Ratio: 2.5
Plot Density: 31%
Green Space: 20% - Tags
- Cylindrical buildings, Passive cooling, Green and sustainable, Mixed development
- Production Technology
- In order to create an original design, we boldly use the image of ancient Chinese coins that symbolize wealth and finance as the basis of vertical architectural design, and connect the public's Internet as a platform for our landscape design. The combination of these two elements creates a synergy between the interpersonal relationship and finance through the network.
- Design Challenge
- It was a challenge as the client have expectations of a modern building structure yet task the design team to base the concept to the company identity and the vicinity cultural and historical background. Though we manage to satisfied the client in the end with the ancient coins concept.
- Inspiration
- The company is primarily make up of two main component:
1. Finance
2. Network
Thus our main design concept will revolved around these two main component which will give the urban landscape and company office building a unique identity.
Financial services are the basic components to the company's growth. While the rise of network in recent years provide a bigger platform for the company to connect with the masses. Thus when we integrate these highlights into our architectural design, they become the manifestication of our urban landscapes. - Project Duration
- January 2018 to August 2018 in Hangzhou China
- Operation Flow
- The cylindrical shape of the building prevents strong winds from lifting the roof structure out of the building. There are dozens of interconnected points in the circular building. These connecting structural parts make the building have a unique combination of flexibility and strength quality, making it safer in bad weather conditions.
Circular buildings use fewer wall, floor and roof hence achieving a smaller ecological footprint and more living space at lower cost. In addition, the contact area of the building related to bad weather is reduced thus improving the hardness and energy efficiency. - Team Members
- Chief Designer: Ng Yin Seng Jason
Marketing：Wu Rui，Gong Linju
Architecture Designers：Lin Dongpang，Jin Shiqian，Lu Shaodong，Han Yu
Interior Designers: Qiu Yafen，Lou Jianyu
Landscape Designers: Feng Ying，Lv Xun
Structure Engineers：Lin Mingxing，Gao Youtan
M&E Engineers：Shen Lie，Zhu Xufeng，Zhang Zhou
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