Shenzhen Triangle
One of the leading architects from reputed OMA - Rem Koolhaas has designed the telecoms company Tencent headquarters’ project to tender for Mansion Binhai area development in Shenzhen. This design proposed to be one of the numerous tall buildings to be carried out on one of the countless irregular lots adjacent to one of the countless arterial roads of one of many Chinese metropolises.
Compared to cities even 50 years ago, we now typically perceive our buildings from a moving position, not from a fixed perspective. From the pedestrian to the automobile, the speed of our movement in cities has increased astronomically. But our buildings are still conceived as they always have been: from a stable position… According to the first images of the project, the “special form” of the building was born by subtraction of appropriate diagonal “slices” – two: one at the top, one in low – performed on “maximum extrusion” volume projected by the shape of the lot. The facade solution with varied transparencies highlighting hypothetical structural lines of force – a kind of geometrical trompe l’oeil in the distance vision – looks interesting: one could even admire the result by few tens of seconds, driving on the above mentioned arterial road.
Binhai Mansion
Project: Headquarters in Shenzhen
Status: Competition: 2011
Client: Tencent
Location: Shenzhen, China
Program: Offices, Retail, Recreation, Library, IT Servers
Floor Area: 260,000 m2 above ground, 70,000 m2 below ground, 320,000 m2 total
Height: 200 m
Partners in charge: Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten
Associate in charge: Adam Frampton
Team: Wanyu He, Ravi Kamisetti, Jenny Kim, Jedidiah Lau, Vivien Liu, Kevin Mak, Jesung Park, Benny Tam, Matei Vlasceanu, Casey Wang, Yang Yang COLLABORATORS Structural Engineering, HVAC, MEP, Vertical Transportation, Traffic, and
Sustainability: WSP
Facade Engineering: VS-A.HK Ltd (Hong Kong) + VS-A sas (France)
Model: RJ Models
Renderings: Robota
Animation: Richie Gelles
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Materials provided by OMA