Zaha Hadid Architects has shared its design for the CECEP Shanghai Campus in China, which will utilise renewable energy technologies and recycled materials.
Developed for Chinese renewable energy firm CECEP, the mixed-use campus will be built in north-east Shanghai beside the Huangpu River, taking the form of three interlinked towers with leisure facilities and an urban park at its base.
The design has been led by Zaha Hadid Architects' director Patrik Schumacher and encompasses a number of sustainable features that the studio claims will make it the city's "greenest building".
Campus will set sustainability "benchmarks for the city"
CECEP Shanghai Campus is the winning entry of an international competition held by CECEP, inviting architects to design a home for the company that reflected its ethos and work with renewable energy technologies. Zaha Hadid Architects' design includes photovoltaic panels and will utilise passive design principles, recycled materials and locally-sourced prefabricated components in its construction to "reduce the project's embodied carbon and also support the local economy".
Though it remains in the design phase, the campus is expected to achieve more than 90 credits in the Three Star Green Building Rating ? China's green building evaluation standard ? which is the highest score for any building in Shanghai.
"The new CECEP campus in Shanghai has been designed to be the greenest building in the city with sustain...