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Zhu
Pei
Design Principal and Founder, Studio Peizhu
Award winning project:
Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau
Goals of the Urban Planning Bureau in Shenzen:
- Create a new prototype for government offices
in China by emphasizing ideals of openness and transparency, as
opposed to the defensive, power-architecture that presently is
the norm.
The minimal and self-restrained design presents both the modesty
and solemnity of a government building, but in contrast to rigid
image of typical government buildings, the aim of the architects
was to produce a building with an open, transparent and flexible
image.
- Provide comfortable well-lit office
accommodation designed to fit modern work patterns.
- The design uses a double-height office
unit as the basic cell of the whole office system. With light
steel structure, such unit resides in a predetermined large concrete
structural space, and it can grow according to programmatic requirement.
Thus the whole office system is flexible to adopt any future changes.
- Reduce environmental impact and long term
maintenance cost by creating a sustainable energy efficient office
building flexible in its organization and layout.
Measurable benefits of good design:
- Increased productivity. Consideration of
thermal comfort, lighting, ventilation and noise issues at the
design stage will help to create a comfortable and optimized work
environment for employees, leading to increased productivity.
- Long term economic savings. A well-designed
energy efficient and flexible office will deliver considerable
savings in the long term as maintenance and alteration costs after
completion will be kept to a minimum.
- Creating a new corporate or institutional
image, changing a culture. As the major public face of any institution
or company, office accommodation should reflect the ideals and
aspirations of the public or private body that it houses. As well
as defining the institution or company in the public eye, good
design can encourage and inspire employees to help meet these
aspirations.
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