Essence Financial Securities Tower, Shenzhen, China, Chinese Office Building Design, Architecture Images
Essence Financial Securities in Shenzhen
17 Aug 2021
Design: Rocco Design Architects Associates
Location: Shenzhen, China

Essence Financial Securities Tower
Construction is wrapping up at Rocco Design Architects? (RDA) latest project, a 193.5-meter-tall headquarters building for Essence Financial Securities featuring triple- and septuple-height courtyards that rise through the floors.

Located in Futian, the central business district of Shenzhen, the tower combines two separate headquarters offices, financial trading halls, and commercial office space into a vertical neighborhood.
The headquarters offices occupy three stacks of floors at the upper reaches of the tower. All are defined by voids at the center of the floorplates?rising six floors in the lower headquarters and three in the upper?that act as communal courtyards and visually interconnect the floors into cohesive office clusters. RDA developed a novel structural approach to achieve the courtyards, using a twin-side core with an exoskeleton reinforced by horizontal trusses. This frees the center of the floorplates from structural elements and makes it possible to cut the courtyard through them?creating visually interconnected and cohesive multi-floor offices. The courtyards also improve natural light and generate a chimney effect that enhances ventilation and passive temperature regulation, resulting in a hig...