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Based in Shanghai, NAN Architects produces creative offices, R&D facilities, and exhibition pavilions marked by expressive structural geometries, combining branching piers, pinched facades, and rotated volumes with stark transitions between perforated brick and lightweight glass gables. This work serves as a strong reference when detailing sculptural external circulation, configuring expressively tapered structural supports, or resolving tectonic shifts between solid masonry and soaring glazed enclosures.

White geometric commercial volumes with large curtain wall glazing and cantilevered upper floor along a paved alleyway in Shanghai by NAN Architects.

上海市愚园里创意园_调整大小

上海

An exterior facade precedent for creative park architecture utilizing crisp white volumetric massing, sharp cantilevers, and multi-story glazed voids along an urban alley.

What we like about this project
An open-air external stair ascends directly from the ground to a second-level glass-balustrade terrace.

Materials

  • stucco
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • paving-blocks

Visual identifiers

  • white-stucco
  • cantilevered-volume
  • curtain-wall
  • alleyway-context

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • minimalist
  • sculptural

Visual tags

  • creative-park
  • modernist
  • cantilever
  • commercial
  • pedestrian-scale
Geometry
Asymmetrical white volumes featuring sharp vertical corners, large multi-story punched glass bays, cantilevered upper masses, and an external stair leading to a terrace.
Facade system
Stucco-finished wall panels combined with multi-story structural glazing systems.
Structural guess
Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs.
Spatial scale
Three to four-story commercial volumes scaled for pedestrian circulation and creative workspace use.
Lighting
Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows and highlighting the clean edges of the white stucco volumes.
Atmosphere
Clean, bright, and forward-looking urban workspace environment.
Environmental context
Urban creative park setting in Shanghai featuring paved pedestrian walkways and neighboring low-rise structures.
Spatial experience
Approaching along a paved pedestrian alleyway, the staggered white volumes create a dynamic rhythm of solids and glazed voids.
Composition rhythm
Repeating recessed storefront openings and staggered upper-level cantilever blocks.
Style reading
Contemporary minimalist rationalism with sculptural volumes
Program
Creative office or design studios
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
stucco, glass, aluminum, paving-blocks
Visual identifiers
white-stucco, cantilevered-volume, curtain-wall, alleyway-context
Style tags
contemporary, minimalist, sculptural
Visual tags
creative-park, modernist, cantilever, commercial, pedestrian-scale
Geometry
Asymmetrical white volumes featuring sharp vertical corners, large multi-story punched glass bays, cantilevered upper masses, and an external stair leading to a terrace.
Facade system
Stucco-finished wall panels combined with multi-story structural glazing systems.
Structural guess
Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs.
Spatial scale
Three to four-story commercial volumes scaled for pedestrian circulation and creative workspace use.
Lighting
Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows and highlighting the clean edges of the white stucco volumes.
Atmosphere
Clean, bright, and forward-looking urban workspace environment.
Environmental context
Urban creative park setting in Shanghai featuring paved pedestrian walkways and neighboring low-rise structures.
Spatial experience
Approaching along a paved pedestrian alleyway, the staggered white volumes create a dynamic rhythm of solids and glazed voids.
Composition rhythm
Repeating recessed storefront openings and staggered upper-level cantilever blocks.
Style reading
Contemporary minimalist rationalism with sculptural volumes
Program
Creative office or design studios
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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White geometric commercial volumes with large curtain wall glazing and cantilevered upper floor along a paved alleyway in Shanghai by NAN Architects.

上海市愚园里创意园_调整大小

上海

An exterior facade precedent for creative park architecture utilizing crisp white volumetric massing, sharp cantilevers, and multi-story glazed voids along an urban alley.

What we like about this project
An open-air external stair ascends directly from the ground to a second-level glass-balustrade terrace.

Materials

  • stucco
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • paving-blocks

Visual identifiers

  • white-stucco
  • cantilevered-volume
  • curtain-wall
  • alleyway-context

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • minimalist
  • sculptural

Visual tags

  • creative-park
  • modernist
  • cantilever
  • commercial
  • pedestrian-scale
Geometry
Asymmetrical white volumes featuring sharp vertical corners, large multi-story punched glass bays, cantilevered upper masses, and an external stair leading to a terrace.
Facade system
Stucco-finished wall panels combined with multi-story structural glazing systems.
Structural guess
Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs.
Spatial scale
Three to four-story commercial volumes scaled for pedestrian circulation and creative workspace use.
Lighting
Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows and highlighting the clean edges of the white stucco volumes.
Atmosphere
Clean, bright, and forward-looking urban workspace environment.
Environmental context
Urban creative park setting in Shanghai featuring paved pedestrian walkways and neighboring low-rise structures.
Spatial experience
Approaching along a paved pedestrian alleyway, the staggered white volumes create a dynamic rhythm of solids and glazed voids.
Composition rhythm
Repeating recessed storefront openings and staggered upper-level cantilever blocks.
Style reading
Contemporary minimalist rationalism with sculptural volumes
Program
Creative office or design studios
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
stucco, glass, aluminum, paving-blocks
Visual identifiers
white-stucco, cantilevered-volume, curtain-wall, alleyway-context
Style tags
contemporary, minimalist, sculptural
Visual tags
creative-park, modernist, cantilever, commercial, pedestrian-scale
Geometry
Asymmetrical white volumes featuring sharp vertical corners, large multi-story punched glass bays, cantilevered upper masses, and an external stair leading to a terrace.
Facade system
Stucco-finished wall panels combined with multi-story structural glazing systems.
Structural guess
Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs.
Spatial scale
Three to four-story commercial volumes scaled for pedestrian circulation and creative workspace use.
Lighting
Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows and highlighting the clean edges of the white stucco volumes.
Atmosphere
Clean, bright, and forward-looking urban workspace environment.
Environmental context
Urban creative park setting in Shanghai featuring paved pedestrian walkways and neighboring low-rise structures.
Spatial experience
Approaching along a paved pedestrian alleyway, the staggered white volumes create a dynamic rhythm of solids and glazed voids.
Composition rhythm
Repeating recessed storefront openings and staggered upper-level cantilever blocks.
Style reading
Contemporary minimalist rationalism with sculptural volumes
Program
Creative office or design studios
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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