Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ by Shujian You

Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ by Shujian You is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award in Дизайни меъморӣ, бино ва иншоот Competition Category.

ОҳанМеъморӣ· 2025

Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ

by Shujian You

Client: Sj

Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award Winner in Меъморӣ Category

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The Design

About Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ

Ин лоиҳа биноии модернистии Seagram-ро ба ҷойи кории оянда табдил медиҳад, ки дар он афзалият ба некуаҳволии инсон ва масъулияти экологӣ дода шудааст, дар ҳоле ки намои биринҷии рамзии он ҳифз карда мешавад. Сохтори нави дупӯста самаранокии энергетикиро беҳтар мекунад, ки дар дохили он сохторҳои иловашуда минтақаҳои мутобиқшавандаро муайян мекунанд ва ҳамчун девораҳои ҷудокунанда ва ҷойҳои нигоҳдорӣ хизмат мекунанд, ки тарҳи кушоди биноро аз нав ташкил медиҳанд. Бо дарназардошти ниёзҳои ҷойи корӣ пас аз пандемия, ин амалиёт биноии Seagram-ро эҳё мекунад ва аҳамияти онро тавассути матрисаи дохилии таҷдидёфта аз нав барқарор месозад.

The Recognition

About the Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award

Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ ғолиби Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award аст, ки эътирофи обрӯманд буда, ба тарҳҳои хуб дода мешавад, ки талаботи касбӣ ва саноатиро, ки аз офаридаҳои хуб тарҳрезишуда интизор меравад, иҷро мекунанд. Ғолибони оҳан маҳорати бузург, ихтисоси баланд, фаҳмиши коршиносона ва иқтидори эҷодии офаринандагони худро нишон медиҳанд. Интизор меравад, ки Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ офаридаи хеле қадршуда, мавриди таҳсин ва маҳбуб бошад, ки амалӣ ва навоварона аст. Ин тарҳи ғолиби Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award беҳтарин амалияи соҳаро муттаҳид мекунад ва хусусиятҳои босалоҳияти фаннӣ дорад, ки бо донишҳои амалӣ ва истеъдод пайваст шудаанд. Matrix Beyond Bronze Таҷдиди бинои идорӣ барои диққаткорияш эҳтиром мешавад ва барои таъмини беҳбудиҳои сифати зиндагӣ, ки ба беҳтар кардани ҷаҳон кумак мекунанд, тарҳрезӣ шудааст.

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.