Dezeen promotion: DU Studio has redesigned the headquarters of Zhengzhou Yutong Bus in Zhengzhou, China, creating an updated corporate identity while reusing up to 60 per cent of the existing structure and materials.
Zhengzhou Yutong Bus ? China's largest electric bus manufacturer ? commissioned interior design firm DU Studio in 2017 to update its head office and create a space that better reflected company's successful development in recent years.
The goal was to improve the building's spatial efficiency, aesthetics and sustainability, creating a multifunctional environment while reusing the majority of the existing structure and materials.
A three-storey green wall towers over the main sales lobby at the Zhengzhou Yutong Bus headquarters Located in Zhengzhou's Jingkai District, the headquarters comprises of a 12-storey research and development building and a 15-storey sales office ? totalling approximately 60,000 square metres that encompasses multiple lobbies, public spaces, workspaces and VIP areas.
"The main challenge of this renovation was to make the best use of the existing structure, materials, and equipment, and to upgrade the function and aesthetics of the space as much as possible so that it better fit Yutong's corporate culture," said DU Studio founder Zhu Ping.
Curving room dividers and tables in the financial hall mimic the design of the brand's buses
The studio overhauled the main lobby of the sales building, creating a green wall that stretches th...