The NanFang University Technology Park, located within Shenzhen’s expanding NanShan Dashahe Innovation Corridor, provides a better environment and platform for technological innovation and research. On a 15.2-hectare location bordering Shenzhen University’s new campus, the 628,000 sqm project includes IT incubator space, an R&D office, medical instrument research, and entrepreneurship services. Enhanced settings for technological innovation and discovery are promoted through architecture and planning techniques, which include incubators and instructional platforms for entrepreneurs, researchers, and start-ups.
© Guanhong Chen – ACF Vision, Ivo Semerdzhiev
Nature is recognized as an invaluable resource, a reservoir of knowledge, and a source of inspiration in the architectural design approach. The conceptual design is based on the realization that new scientific and technical undertakings increasingly seek inspiration and solutions directly from nature. While introducing a core planted public realm, the urban design strategy respects natural site characteristics, particularly a historic burial mound hill and an existing military barrier. The integrated design plan respects the existing natural topography of the site and is organized along the lines of a city, with multiple thematic ‘districts’ framing a central open area. The following four major ‘districts’ are made up of the following individuals and directly represent their r...