Houhai Hybrid Campus
A large-scale mixed-use campus precedent by Büro Ole Scheeren demonstrating the integration of high-rise commercial towers with multi-level landscaped public terraces.
- What we like about this project
- Elevated walkways and bridge structures weave seamlessly through multiple levels of the central landscape.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- concrete
- planting
Visual identifiers
- glass-towers
- terraced-podiums
- landscaped-courtyard
- elevated-walkways
Style tags
- contemporary
- megastructure
- biophilic
- futuristic
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- campus
- landscape-integration
- high-rise
- public-realm
- rendering
- Geometry
- Complex multi-tower complex connected by stepped terraced podiums and elevated walkways, creating a large central landscaped courtyard.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical mullions on the towers, transitioning to board-formed concrete and glass guardrails on terraced podiums.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite frames for towers with transfer structures at podium levels supporting extensive green roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Massive corporate campus scale with multi-story towers rising over stepped multi-level public podiums.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight with a central backlight haze behind a tall distant spire silhouette.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, green corporate enclave balancing dense high-rise massing with lush public outdoor spaces.
- Environmental context
- Dense high-rise commercial district with extensive public green roofs and podium landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Dynamic interplay between open landscaped public ground and dense vertical office towers, framing views and guiding movement across multiple levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fin facade rhythms on the towers paired with horizontal layered green terraces below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure with biophilic integration
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, concrete, planting
- Visual identifiers
- glass-towers, terraced-podiums, landscaped-courtyard, elevated-walkways
- Style tags
- contemporary, megastructure, biophilic, futuristic
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, campus, landscape-integration, high-rise, public-realm, rendering
- Geometry
- Complex multi-tower complex connected by stepped terraced podiums and elevated walkways, creating a large central landscaped courtyard.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical mullions on the towers, transitioning to board-formed concrete and glass guardrails on terraced podiums.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite frames for towers with transfer structures at podium levels supporting extensive green roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Massive corporate campus scale with multi-story towers rising over stepped multi-level public podiums.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight with a central backlight haze behind a tall distant spire silhouette.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, green corporate enclave balancing dense high-rise massing with lush public outdoor spaces.
- Environmental context
- Dense high-rise commercial district with extensive public green roofs and podium landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Dynamic interplay between open landscaped public ground and dense vertical office towers, framing views and guiding movement across multiple levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fin facade rhythms on the towers paired with horizontal layered green terraces below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure with biophilic integration
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture