Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas by Wei Zhang - gad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ouro in Deseño de Arquitectura, Edificación e Estruturas Competition Category.
OuroArquitectura· 2022
Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas
Client: Gad
A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Arquitectura Category
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The Design
About Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas
Taizhou Z Center é un edificio de oficinas con áreas comerciais no distrito central de negocios de Taizhou, Zhejiang. O edificio principal en forma de L, de tipo laminar, elévase 90 metros e esténdese ao longo da Avenida Shifu. Os volumes en voladizo e elevados crean espazos protexidos para as tendas na planta baixa. Un camiño diagonal atravesa a parcela e conecta a torre co centro comercial. O edificio principal e os edificios veciños delimitan unha praza pública aberta. Vidro e paneis de aluminio perforado envolven a fachada de placas pregadas. Un xardín elevado divide os dous bloques funcionais e ofrece unha vista compartida da paisaxe.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. Taizhou Z Center Edificio de Oficinas crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- From the point of view of the site selection in the central business district, the heart of a city usually means highly intensive development of blocks, and the surrounding greenbelts and transportation system outline an increasingly clear boundary for it. In the face of the project land that integrates office and commercial needs, our design expected to break the solidified paradigm of closed parks, and create a lively and cordial interface for the bustling crowds based on the roots of the city. The main ideas of Taizhou Z Center surely include key words below:
1. Aggregate: Layout Strategy of Implanting A Square;
2. Overlap: Vertical Expansion of Composite Functions;
3. Connect: Place Creation to Boost Vitality.
So this project will be submitted by following the three key ideas mentioned above. - Dimensions & Packaging
- According to the difference of the functional layout, the main building was rendered a distinct block-joining look. At the same time, materials such as glass and perforated aluminum panels with similar colors were used to maintain the lightness and unity of the overall modeling language. The 90-meter-high main slab building spreads as far as possible along the Shifu Avenue, jumping out of the surrounding buildings, and gently incorporating to the city skyline.
- Tags
- Z, City Vitality Catalyst, High-rise Office
- Production Technology
- Based on the analysis of urban behavior patterns, we used a large number of cantilever and overhead techniques to provide gray space for commercial func-tions of the ground floor and show the echoing relationship between the square and the city.
Taizhou Z Center, the high-rise center and shopping center in diagonal form a convenient pedestrian flowpath across the base. With this hidden oblique axis, the L-shaped main building, the Nanyang Science and Technology Building on the west and the residential slabs of Yulan Plaza on the north naturally enclose to form a public and open city square. The plane stretches open, returning the inner space to the city. - Design Challenge
- The land use conditions are particularly harsh in the city's axis, where an inch of land values an inch of gold. The building density was limited to 20%. Although it was a tough starting point, we turned the challenge into the unique symbol of Z Center in the process of deepening.
- Research
- The Central Park is facing the south side of the project, and form a continuous green axis of landscape with the Waterscape Park adjacent to the business dis-trict, the Civic Square and Baiyun Mountain. The south and east sides of the L-shaped main building open up the sight corridors, and we have set up a show-case-like sky garden at the key point of the block-joining part. It not only makes a natural division between the two functional blocks, but also weakens the sense of high-level volume. It connects with the distant landscape from the vertical dimension of the space, and is a relatively shared communication plat-form.
The landmark of the Z Center project indicates the façade treatment method of the main building wrapped by folded plates, as well as the flow guide of the entrance and exit of the volume cutting. It is applied to mathematical summation, and may also contain a certain metaphor: in the development, the building itself and the vitality of the city are taken into account, effectively stimulating the catalytic effect, so as to achieve transcendence on balance. - Inspiration
- The expectable landmark of the Z Center project derives from “∑”. This symbol indicates the façade treatment method of the main building wrapped by folded plates, as well as the flow guide of the entrance and exit of the volume cutting. It is applied to mathematical summation, and may also contain a certain metaphor: in the development, the building itself and the vitality of the city are taken into account, effectively stimulating the catalytic effect, so as to achieve transcendence on balance.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2007 and finished in 2010 in Taizhou of Zhejiang.
- Operation Flow
- In the face of the project land that integrates office and commercial needs, our design expected to break the solidified paradigm of closed parks, and cre-ate a lively and cordial interface for the bustling crowds based on the roots of the city.The square block on the corner of the street has a close dialogue with the neighboring administrative, cultural and business districts.
- Team Members
- Project Director: Wei Zhang
Project Creative: Wei Zhang
Yicun Song
Other Team Members: Kaijian Zhang
Yicun Song
Pengfei Kang
Junyan Shao
Fengnan Zu
Renqian Song
Xiaoliang Zhao
Guocai Yao
Guoping Chen
Interior: Hangzhou Dianshang Building Decoration Design Co., Ltd.
Landscape: Shanghai LANDAU International Design Co., Ltd.
Lighting: Shanghai Eduth Facade Consultants Co., Ltd.
Facade: Shanghai Eduth Facade Consultants Co., Ltd.
Photographer: Li Yao - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Li Yao, Taizhou Z Center, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Li Yao, The aerial view, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Li Yao, External view of the building, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Li Yao, Street view from different directions, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Li Yao, Joined blocks of the main building, 2020.
Video Credits: Molan Digital Studio Of Hangzhou.
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