Shimao Riverfront Wisdom Towers / EID Arch

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Text explanation provided by nan architects. The Shimao Riverfront Wisdom Towers is simply a mixed-use improvement designed by Atelier Ping Jiang I EID Arch. Situated adjacent nan intersection of Airport Highway and Qianjing Third Bridge, nan tract is simply a captious municipality node for Hangzhou’s Binjiang district. Completed successful December 2022, nan analyzable includes agency towers, an flat building, a unit annex, and a parkland for nan public. Hangzhou is champion known for its picturesque West Lake, beverage farms, and nan birthplace of E-commerce elephantine Alibaba. This task is envisioned arsenic a important municipality gateway, featuring copy towers astir 280 meters tall, for nan IoT area and surrounding smart manufacture belt.

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Site Plan

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The task provides 370,000 quadrate meters of caller office, residential and unit space. The improvement is organized arsenic 5 buildings surrounding a green, nationalist abstraction to stimulate casual gathering and exchange. Towers A and B are centerpieces of nan development, accommodating agency and residential use. A 3-story annex provides unit abstraction and community-supporting facilities. The horizontal undulating façade of nan annex imitates nan shape of nan adjacent river, providing a pedestrian-friendly atmosphere. Unlike accepted commercialized high-density mixed-use developments, this task optimizes nationalist unfastened space. The tract is unfastened from each sides, attracting visitors from each directions.

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1F Plan

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The task is successful a salient location adjacent nan Qiantang River. This stream is historically well-known for its tidal bores aliases beardown surging tides. This inspired an absurd curvilinear, flowing shape connected nan towers’ facades. The towers are wrapped pinch low-iron solid curtain walls, pinch aluminum vertical fins. Vertical elements person a level of size and shape, further emphasizing nan surging tide conception arsenic nan aboveground of nan façade advances and retreats. The building shape embraces nan beauty of Qiantang River’s ebb and travel and displays refracted ray passim nan day.

Facade Design

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In opposition to beardown form-driven gangly buildings successful nan city, nan copy towers successful this task guidelines pinch a restrained, elemental beauty. The designer evocatively captures this successful their statement: "In a high-density municipality environment, iconic buildings should not only beryllium expressions of novelty and extravagance. Unlike nan communal inclination of seeking tallness and spectacle successful nan creation of high-rise buildings successful China, nan Wisdom Towers guidelines softly connected nan banks of nan Qiantang River pinch a restrained elegance and unfastened posture, responding to nan section taste characteristics of nan city.”

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In collaboration pinch New York-based structural engineering patient LERA, nan creation squad adopted a dual structural strategy pinch a mega-braced framework and halfway walls. It features 8 mega-columns pinch diagonal bracing placed astatine 4 corners adjacent to nan building letter cover to trim tonnage while optimizing column-free agency space. During nan creation process, this elastic interior allowed for a seamless alteration of programmatic usage (i.e. office, hotel, apartment, etc.) to respond to marketplace request changes. This task achieved LEED Gold Certification and features sun-shading aluminum fins and high-performance solid connected nan copy towers’ facades to trim glare and star power gain.

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The task besides features nan integration of nationalist creation pinch architecture. Adjacent to nan cardinal plot space, ventilation and fume exhaust accommodation are wrapped successful copper-colored aluminum panels. The panels merge pinch nan building’s mechanical instrumentality and person an creator shape to pull group to nan cardinal abstraction and summation connectivity betwixt towers. A sculptural, futuristic canopy besides connects nan bottommost of nan towers, creating a unsocial stepping experience.

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Shimao Riverfront Wisdom Towers pays tribute to Hangzhou city’s unsocial characteristics pinch a quiet urbanity and powerful unfastened gesture. The creation of nan improvement utilizes precocious materials and invention to merge conceptual and applicable creation methodologies, reflecting nan city’s ethos successful which accepted and modern elements coexist.

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Address:Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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Published connected May 14, 2023

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