Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial by Aedas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
GoldArchitecture· 2023
Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial
by Aedas
Client: Chongqing Gaoke Group Co., Ltd.
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial
Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd is an office tower located in Chongqing, China. The building rises to a height of 201 metres and is defined by a double curved facade. The facade links the northern and eastern sides from bottom to top, and the form was inspired by the dancing aurora. Rectilinear volumes are set beside tower surfaces with double curves. The maximum twisting angle reaches 8.8 degrees per floor. Cold bent glass and building information modelling were used to resolve the complex geometry. The tower was completed in 2022.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- This 201M high office tower has the strong feature of Double-Curved Façade, which put it among one of “The Most Twisting Towers in the World”.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- To achieve a very smooth transition of the glass façade, the design uses double-curved cold form glass instead of the usual or more common faceted method. The maximum twisting angle is up to 8.8 degrees per floor surpassing the existing super high-rise tower in the world by nearly 1.5 times (CTBUH Journal, 2016 Issue 3). The system of cold bend glass on the 3D frame façade component enables a maximum of 86mm in glass deviation between floors, realizing a record-breaking design in China.
- Tags
- Gaoke, Aedas, Most-Twisting, Double-Curve, Hyperbolic, Dance-of-light, Dancing-Aurora
- Production Technology
- The unique twisting results in a high double-curvature ratio, which poses a major challenge for the overall façade system. The team and RFR joint hands to leverage the cold bend glass technique and BIM on complex geometry façade for a magic solution. From overall geometry analysis, façade component modelling & clash-checking, LOD400 detail component modelling, automotive data exporting and auditing, 3D BIM has been utilized throughout the entire façade design process.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the dancing aurora, the designer introduced an impressive façade design through bottom-to-top connections between northern and eastern sides. The ‘dance of light’ is characterized by the juxtaposition of rectilinear forms and tower façades with double curves.
- Project Duration
- Completion Year: 2022
Location: Chongqing, China - Team Members
- Ken Wai, Global Design Principal
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Arch-Exist Photography
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