Laguarda designed the Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center. Low Architects has a total GBA of 150,000 square meters and smoothly mixes office, residential, and retail applications. Its core design concept is to create a dynamic and pleasant urban ecological public space while providing the project with a distinct and identifiable form and encouraging people to communicate and connect. The curved architectural shape engages in a sweeping gesture inside the urban grid with the surrounding high-rise structures, participates in contrast with the surrounding environment, and creates a new ecological metropolitan and commercial area.
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Breakthroughs and difficulties. The project’s location in the Dayuan area is a designated high-tech zone with optimal infrastructure, a strong neighborhood ambiance, and a flourishing commercial sector. Despite its advantageous position, the project needs help blending among adjacent homogenous development projects and land constraints. Given the project’s restricted scale and height constraint of 70 meters, the first issue for the new project was to produce a unique landmark that not only stands out from the surrounding things but also improves the community’s overall image. © Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center
Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center’s Design Concept
Reborn by innovating. For the Dayuan Area, the government has developed specific urban design rules, which assist in standa...