02道生天合上海临港总部园区
上海
A striking corporate headquarters precedent demonstrating a dramatic concrete cantilever and continuous ribbon glazing over a water feature—ideal for studies in structural expression and corporate identity.
- What we like about this project
- The upper glass volume features exposed structural truss elements that rhythmically break up the continuous ribbon window.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- steel
- metal-panel
Visual identifiers
- massive-cantilever
- concrete-podium
- ribbon-glazing
- corporate-headquarters
Style tags
- contemporary
- structural-expressionism
- corporate-minimal
Visual tags
- cantilever
- monolithic
- corporate
- high-tech
- industrial-park
- reflective-pool
- Geometry
- A heavy, wide-span concrete cantilever projects dramatically outward over a low-profile reflective water basin and entry portal, supporting an upper floor wrapped in continuous structural glass and capped with horizontal metal panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the upper level, paired with expressed structural steel truss framing visible behind the glazing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy post-tensioned concrete or structural steel space frame cantilevered from a central core.
- Spatial scale
- Large corporate headquarters scale; the massive cantilever spans roughly three structural bays with a commanding horizontal presence.
- Lighting
- Even dusk or twilight ambient light washes the facade, with interior lights glowing softly through the ribbon windows and subtle uplighting accentuating the underside of the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Precise, monumental, and calm under the cool twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Industrial or corporate park setting with flat paved parking in the foreground, low perimeter greenery, and adjacent industrial buildings in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching the building, the massive overhanging concrete volume creates a sense of compressed, protective arrival above the reflective pool before entering the central portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification balanced by the central vertical axis of the ground-level entryway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary high-tech corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and technology campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, steel, metal-panel
- Visual identifiers
- massive-cantilever, concrete-podium, ribbon-glazing, corporate-headquarters
- Style tags
- contemporary, structural-expressionism, corporate-minimal
- Visual tags
- cantilever, monolithic, corporate, high-tech, industrial-park, reflective-pool
- Geometry
- A heavy, wide-span concrete cantilever projects dramatically outward over a low-profile reflective water basin and entry portal, supporting an upper floor wrapped in continuous structural glass and capped with horizontal metal panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the upper level, paired with expressed structural steel truss framing visible behind the glazing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy post-tensioned concrete or structural steel space frame cantilevered from a central core.
- Spatial scale
- Large corporate headquarters scale; the massive cantilever spans roughly three structural bays with a commanding horizontal presence.
- Lighting
- Even dusk or twilight ambient light washes the facade, with interior lights glowing softly through the ribbon windows and subtle uplighting accentuating the underside of the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Precise, monumental, and calm under the cool twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Industrial or corporate park setting with flat paved parking in the foreground, low perimeter greenery, and adjacent industrial buildings in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching the building, the massive overhanging concrete volume creates a sense of compressed, protective arrival above the reflective pool before entering the central portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification balanced by the central vertical axis of the ground-level entryway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary high-tech corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and technology campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture