Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری by Shujian You

Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری by Shujian You is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 جایزه آهنی A' Design Award in طراحی معماری، ساختمان و سازه Competition Category.

آهنمعماری· 2025

Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری

by Shujian You

Client: Sj

جایزه آهنی A' Design Award Winner in معماری Category

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The Design

About Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری

این پروژه ساختمان مدرنیستی سیگرام را به یک محیط کاری آینده‌نگر تبدیل می‌کند که در آن اولویت با رفاه انسانی و مسئولیت زیست‌محیطی است، ضمن حفظ نمای برنزی نمادین آن. یک ساختار پوسته دوگانه جدید، عملکرد انرژی را ارتقا می‌بخشد که در درون آن، سازه‌های اضافه‌شده، مناطق سازگار را تعریف کرده و به‌عنوان پارتیشن و فضای ذخیره‌سازی عمل می‌کنند و طرح فضای باز را بازتعریف می‌نمایند. با پاسخگویی به نیازهای محیط کاری پسا-همه‌گیری، این مداخله طراحی، ساختمان سیگرام را احیا می‌کند و از طریق یک ماتریس داخلی بازسازی‌شده، اهمیت آن را دوباره بازیابی می‌کند.

The Recognition

About the جایزه آهنی A' Design Award

Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری برنده جایزه آهنی A' Design Award است، شناختی معتبر که به طراحی‌های خوبی اعطا می‌شود که الزامات حرفه‌ای و صنعتی مورد انتظار از آفرینش‌های خوب طراحی‌شده را برآورده می‌کنند. برندگان آهن مهارت بزرگ، تخصص بالا، درک کارشناسانه و ظرفیت خلاقانه سازندگان خود را نشان می‌دهند. از Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری انتظار می‌رود آفرینشی بسیار ارجمند، ستوده و دوست‌داشتنی باشد که کاربردی و نوآورانه است. این طراحی برنده جایزه آهنی A' Design Award بهترین رویه‌های صنعت را یکپارچه می‌کند و ویژگی‌های فنی شایسته‌ای دارد که با دانش عملی و استعداد پیوند خورده است. Matrix Beyond Bronze بازسازی ساختمان اداری به سبب دقتش محترم است و برای عرضه بهبودهای کیفیت زندگی که به بهتر شدن جهان کمک می‌کنند طراحی شده است.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This project reimagines the Seagram Building by superimposing a 45-degree grid onto its modernist framework, creating a double-skin facade that enhances energy efficiency while preserving its heritage, with triangular wellness spaces in between. Added structures transform the office space into adaptable zones, serving as storage, partitions, and stairs that redefine the open-plan layout. The design prioritizes well-being, sustainability, and a forward-thinking workplace vision.
Dimensions & Packaging: The Seagram Building’s vertical structure and facade remain intact, while every other concrete floor and beams are replaced with a CLT system, integrating with the existing frame, ensuring vertical and lateral stability. The void between CLT and the original structure conceals a retrofitted mechanical system, optimizing energy efficiency and space utilization. This approach enhances functionality, sustainability, and allows the upgrades to happen without altering the building’s historic exterior.
Tags: Building Renovation, Workplace, Co-working Space, Modular Design, Sustainable Design
Production Technology: The facade retrofit employs a modular CLT and double-glazed curtain wall system, ensuring precision, reduced waste, and efficient on-site assembly. Sustainably sourced timber provides structural integrity and warmth, while high-performance glazing enhances insulation. The directional facade strategy and Integrated blinds offer additional shading, reducing energy demand. The modular approach allows seamless integration with the existing structure, preserving heritage while upgrading thermal and spatial efficiency.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was balancing modern sustainability with the Seagram Building’s historic integrity. The rigid modernist grid conflicted with the need for a workplace suggested by latest researches that value boundaries as a tool for productivity and well-being. The solution emerged by superimposing a 45-degree grid, introducing modular storage partition units and an inner facade system. This approach preserved the original aesthetic while enhancing building energy performance and redefining spatial boundaries as a positive element that enhances workplace quality.
Research: This research explores building energy efficiency, workplace design through post-pandemic shifts, and spatial psychology. It aims to provide a scalable strategy to transform heritage office buildings with improved sustainability and workers' well-being. Using case studies, simulations, and expert interviews, data was collected on improved building energy performance with added inner facade system, and altered office behavior with partitions. Testing modular partition of different plans and openness revealed how structured boundaries enhance focus and productivity, providing a direction for future workplace design.
Inspiration: The Seagram Building, a modernist icon, embodies minimalist elegance but reflects a time when energy efficiency was secondary. It highlights the challenge of adapting heritage buildings to modern performance standards and evolving workplace needs, especially post-pandemic. Open-plan offices, once symbols of collaboration, now face criticism for lacking personal boundaries. How can we honor modernist architecture while meeting today’s demand for sustainable, human-centered office spaces?
Project Duration: Future project in New York City
Operation Flow: Added structures serve as staggered partitions and storage walls, balancing fluid movement and the creation of spatial boundaries while redefining the open-plan layout. They form diverse work zones, integrating reception, meeting spaces, a library, a refreshment lounge, and staircases to foster interaction. Integrated AR/MR systems amplify collaboration, enabling seamless interaction between physical and remote virtual spaces.