- Year
- 2021
- Type
- Industrial
- Status
- Built
- Firm
- HDR
- Location
- Pudong, China
Located in an industrial area, the site is bounded by four major roadways, thus creating a “super-block.” The design concept respects this block, with the various research and development buildings adhering to the edges of the streets to create a “solid” mass that was then “eroded” in the center, as if by water. With the hard rectilinear edges defining the mass, the central, organic form creates a garden, or park, on the interior with the “people” spaces overlooking it. “Science” spaces, including laboratories and other technical spaces, are appropriately housed along the perimeter in linear bars clad in solid materials, while workplace and collaboration areas are located along the interior and clad in glass to provide daylight inside and views into the garden.