Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran by Shujian You

Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran by Shujian You is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Besi in Desain Arsitektur, Bangunan dan Struktur Competition Category.

BesiArsitektur· 2025

Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran

by Shujian You

Client: Sj

A' Design Award Besi Winner in Arsitektur Category

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The Design

About Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran

Proyek ini mentransformasi Gedung Seagram bergaya modernis menjadi tempat kerja masa depan, memprioritaskan kesejahteraan manusia dan tanggung jawab lingkungan sambil mempertahankan fasad perunggu ikoniknya. Struktur kulit ganda yang baru meningkatkan kinerja energi, di mana struktur tambahan mendefinisikan zona-zona yang dapat disesuaikan, berfungsi sebagai partisi dan penyimpanan yang membentuk ulang tata letak ruang terbuka. Menjawab kebutuhan tempat kerja pasca-pandemi, intervensi ini merevitalisasi Gedung Seagram, membangun kembali relevansinya melalui matriks internal yang diperbarui.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Besi

Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran adalah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengakuan yang bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain yang baik yang memenuhi persyaratan profesional dan industri yang diharapkan dari kreasi yang dirancang dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan keterampilan yang besar, spesialisasi yang tinggi, pemahaman ahli, dan kapasitas kreatif para penciptanya. Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran diharapkan menjadi kreasi yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai yang praktis dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini mengintegrasikan praktik terbaik industri dan memiliki karakteristik teknis yang kompeten yang terkait dengan pengetahuan teknis dan bakat. Matrix Beyond Bronze Renovasi Gedung Perkantoran dihormati karena ketelitiannya dan dirancang untuk memberikan peningkatan kualitas hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

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.