Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence by Zup

Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence by Zup is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.

BronzeUrban Planning· 2022

Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence

by Zup

Client: Hangzhou Xiaoshan Environment Group Co. LTD

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category

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The Design

About Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence

Future Headquarters Community is an urban design for a mixed-use district in Hangzhou, China. The plan combines office and residential functions to serve companies and their staff. High-rise buildings surround a central park, recalling the mountains around the West Lake. Water features connect the main public spaces, referring to the Grand Canal. Vertical public spaces on several levels link the buildings and support contact between people. The design hosts both large companies and start-ups in one shared setting.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Hangzhou is a leading city in China's digital economy. After 20 years of development, CBD needs new space to attract enterprises and talents. This project is the first headquarters community in Zhejiang Province, with an open and inclusive industrial ecology to attract both leading enterprises and start-ups for common development and communication; Vertical multi-level public space with high-quality landscape links buildings and enhances the interaction between people, stimulates innovation vitality.
Tags: CBD, Digital Economy, Headquarters Business System, Innovative Talents, Innovative Parks, Urban Design, Whole Process Consulting
Design Challenge: Talent people pursue high-quality space, headquarters enterprises want to develop industrial ecology, the government wants to improve the image of the city, and executors want to improve the value of land. This design project meets different needs of all parties, and ensures the overall implementation through urban design guidelines and whole-process consultation under the condition of huge initial investment.
Research: This project is located in The CBD area of Hangzhou.Through intelligent big data analysis and research on the surrounding areas of the main city center,also the development rules of the global headquarters and the ratio of industrial residential functions,we clarified the development direction of the innovation headquarters community.Also,landscape interface and high-rise cohesion are added to ensure that the spatial form fits the land value and meets the needs of headquarters and talents.
Inspiration: This work is inspired by the integration of modern city impression and local culture of World Heritage.The spatial frame of high-rise buildings surrounding the Central Park , is an analog of mountains surrounding the West Lake. The water flow connecting core public spaces，is a metaphor of wave of China Grand Canal. The city and landscape are integrated, as if working and living in the park or on the waterfront.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2019, and turned into architecture design period. It is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province,China.
Patents: Copyrights belong to ZUP, 2022.
Team Members: Project Leader: Sang Wanchen
Chief Planners: Kang Lei, Shi Tuo, Wu Xiaochun
Planners: Yang Huiying, Liu Manyun, Fang Junhang, Wu Xiajing
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