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Architecture

Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base

  • Shenzhen, China
  • 2020 – 2027
  • Shenzhen Bay Super Base Construction Headquarters Office
  • Under construction
  • GFA: 440,000m2
  • Site Area: 36268m2

Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base will be an important business and financial centre in Shenzhen serving the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau; integrating clusters of corporate headquarters within a global technology hub accommodating 300,000 employees each day. Including venues for international conferences, exhibitions, cultural and art programmes, the headquarters base will incorporate residential developments, a transportation centre, botanical grasslands, and coastal zone with wetlands.

Tower C by Zaha Hadid Architects within the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base responds to its location at the intersection of the city’s planned north-south green axis and Shenzhen’s east-west urban corridor. Connecting directly with its adjacent park and plazas which transform into a terraced landscape extending upwards within its two towers, the design invites the public into the heart of the building where cultural and leisure attractions are housed in sweeping bridges that tie the towers together and give panoramic views of the city.

Served by the expanding Shenzhen Metro network, Tower C’s stepped podium integrates with the park to create a new public space for this dynamic city that has grown to become a global centre of technology innovation. Uniting the park’s landscapes with the civic plazas of the tower’s lower levels provides direct pedestrian access and daylight to the public transport interchange below ground. Prioritising pedestrians, the tower’s design also includes extensive bicycle parking and charging facilities.

Informed by 3D modelling tools developed by ZHA that optimise efficiencies in architectural massing, orientation and facade-to-floor ratios, Tower C’s design is a multi-dimensional vertical city of two towers at nearly 400m, providing column-free naturally-lit office space, shopping, entertainment and dining amenities, together with a hotel, convention centre and cultural facilities with exhibition galleries.

The double-insulated, unitised glass curtain wall of Tower C’s design steps the glazing as vertical channels for self-shading and incorporates ventilating registers within the channels that draw outside air through operable cavities; providing natural and hybrid ventilation with very effective environmental control for each floor.

Connected with the district’s smart management systems that continually monitor external and interior conditions, indoor environmental controls will adjust in real time to reduce energy consumption with high-efficiency equipment and chiller plant optimisation within the district’s central networks. The design will also incorporate water-collection and recycling as well as photovoltaics to harvest solar energy for the district.

Aquaponics gardens on all terraced levels will biologically filter contaminants from the local environment and low-volatile organic compound materials will be installed to minimise indoor pollutants and particulates. Continuing the district’s ambitions for optimal integration throughout all aspects of the development to increase efficiencies and well-being, Tower C’s procurement will also target embodied carbon reductions and recycled materials.

The design of Tower C integrates the city and nature within its central green axis with the transit orientated development (TOD) of Shenzhen’s new spine, creating a ‘superscape’ that will become a tower of the future within the Super Headquarters Base.

Design

Zaha Hadid Architects

ZHA Principal

Patrik Schumacher

ZHA Project Directors

Satoshi Ohashi, Paulo Flores, Charles Walker (Commercial Director)

ZHA Project Manager

Lydia Kim

ZHA Project Senior Management

Edgar Payan, Paul Brislin, Yang Jingwen

ZHA Project Architects

Saman Dadgostar, Xuexin Duan, Seungho Yeo

ZHA Project Leads

Harry Spraiter, Lorenzo Farchione, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lida Zhang

ZHA Project Team

Xiangfan Chen, Mariana Custodio Dos Santos, Ignacio Garcia Martinez, Michel Ghulmiyyah, Pengcheng Gu, Du Huang, Junya Huang, Leyuan Jiang,Ian Lai, Huiyuan Li, Cheryl Lim, Yixin Liu, Jiamin Lu, Hamze Machmouchi, Keyur Mistry, Rebecca Nayagam, Calin Negret, Michael On, Adeliia Papulzan, Alexander Pena, Sobitha Ravichandran, Roberta Sartori, Lei Song, Flavio Sousa Monteiro, Atilla Ali Tasan, Jessica Wang, Billy Webb, Hao Wen, Ran Wei, Soungmin Yu, Bo Zhang, Weimeng Zhang, Rui Zhao, and Yuxuan Zhao

ZHA Competition Project Directors

Satoshi, Ohashi, Paulo Flores

ZHA Competition Project Associates

Yang Jingwen, Karoly Markos, Michail Desyllas

ZHA Competition Project Lead

Xuexin Duan

ZHA Competition Team

Sebastian Andia, Felix Amiss, Xiangfan Chen, Yuan Feng, Martin Gsandtner, Boyan Hristov, John Kanakas, Enoch Kolo, Leyuan Jiang, Huiyuan Li, Karina Linsen, I-Chun Lin, Gaoqi Lou, Jiaxing Lu, Nastja Mitrovic, Mariana Custodio dos Santos, Zhiming Wang, Bogdan Zaha, Rui Zhao, Lida Zhang, and Xiaoyu Zhang

BIM Team

David Fogliano, Li Jin

Environmental & Sustainability Team

Carlos Bausa Martinez

ZHA+I

Uli Blum, Lorena Espaillat-Bencosme

Executive Architect

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院

Local Architect

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院

Structural Engineers

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院

Quantity Surveyor

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院

General Contractor

China Construction Fifth Engineering Bureau Ltd. 中国建筑第五工程局有限公司

Cost Consultants

Capol 华阳国际

Environmental Consultant

IBS 深圳建科院

Façade Engineering

PAG - PAG朋格幕墙

M&E Engineering

Shanghai Maike Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.上海迈苛 Shanghai Mick

Special Structure Engineers

RBS Architectural Engineering Design Associates 广州容柏生建筑结构设计事务所 (普通合伙)

MEP

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院/ WSP 科进柏诚

Lift Engineering Consultant

WSP 科进柏诚

Transport Consultant

MVA弘达交通

Fire Engineer

Shenzhen Architectural Design Research Institute [SZAD] 深圳市建筑设计研究总院/ WSP 科进柏诚

Landscape Consultant

Lab D+H Shenzhen Beilinyuan landscape and architectural planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd Lab D+H&北林苑

Lighting Design

HG (Beijing) illumination technology co., ltd (floodlight design unit) 寰古之道（北京）照明技术有限公司 （泛光设计单位）

Façade Design Consultant

RFR Shanghai RFR 阿法建筑设计咨询（上海） 有限公司

Lighting Concept Design Consultant

LightDesign

Hotel Concept Design Consultant

Reardon Smith Architects

Hotel Operator

IHG

Hotel Operator Technical Consultant

CCD深圳市郑中设计股份有限公司（室内设计）

Commercial Culture Consultant

Champion 润创

Commercial Office Consultant

Geometrics几何算法

Commercial Design Consultant

Lead8

Office public area interior

HPP+ECADI HPP+华东院