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Based in Shanghai, XING DESIGN shapes research facilities and creative workspaces through structural contrast, balancing heavy concrete cores with slender suspended bridges, sculptural staircases, and deeply recessed ceiling gaps. This portfolio serves as a precise reference when detailing column-free circulation across multi-level interior volumes or carving vertical light slots directly into thick structural cores.

Aerial and dusk exterior views of Jingdezhen Cloud Engine Energy Center by XING DESIGN, featuring a dramatic cantilevered steel roof truss.

景德镇云引擎能源中心-Cloud-Engine-Energy-Center

上海

An industrial heritage energy center by XING DESIGN that juxtaposes historic brick fabric with an expressive, high-tech cantilevered steel roof structure.

What we like about this project
A massive glazed triangular truss dramatically hovers over an open lawn and a historic brick chimney.

Materials

  • steel
  • glass
  • brick
  • concrete
  • metal-mesh

Visual identifiers

  • cantilevered-truss
  • industrial-heritage
  • steel-structure
  • elevated-volume

Style tags

  • high-tech
  • industrial
  • expressive-structure

Visual tags

  • industrial-adaptive-reuse
  • cantilever
  • infrastructure
  • high-tech
  • urban-regeneration
Geometry
An industrial campus context contrasted with a bold, triangular, cantilevered truss volume supported on heavy steel legs.
Facade system
Curtain wall glazing combined with perforated metal sun-shading screens on the upper triangular truss.
Structural guess
Heavy steel space frame and cantilevered trusses supported on concrete and steel columns.
Spatial scale
Large industrial scale featuring multi-story cantilevered trusses and a prominent vertical circulation tower.
Lighting
Top: direct daylight casting long shadows across green terrain and roofs. Bottom: dusk sky with warm internal glow and long red car light trails.
Atmosphere
Dynamic and futuristic intervention resting above quiet historical industrial grounds.
Environmental context
Industrial heritage precinct featuring historic brick structures, pitched tile roofs, and an old chimney stack.
Spatial experience
The elevated structure floats over existing park space and historical industrial brick volumes, creating layered thresholds.
Composition rhythm
Repeating pitched roof ridges of the lower context paired with the sharp geometric diagonal lines of the upper cantilever.
Style reading
High-tech industrial intervention
Program
Energy center and public utility facility
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture
Materials
steel, glass, brick, concrete, metal-mesh
Visual identifiers
cantilevered-truss, industrial-heritage, steel-structure, elevated-volume
Style tags
high-tech, industrial, expressive-structure
Visual tags
industrial-adaptive-reuse, cantilever, infrastructure, high-tech, urban-regeneration
Geometry
An industrial campus context contrasted with a bold, triangular, cantilevered truss volume supported on heavy steel legs.
Facade system
Curtain wall glazing combined with perforated metal sun-shading screens on the upper triangular truss.
Structural guess
Heavy steel space frame and cantilevered trusses supported on concrete and steel columns.
Spatial scale
Large industrial scale featuring multi-story cantilevered trusses and a prominent vertical circulation tower.
Lighting
Top: direct daylight casting long shadows across green terrain and roofs. Bottom: dusk sky with warm internal glow and long red car light trails.
Atmosphere
Dynamic and futuristic intervention resting above quiet historical industrial grounds.
Environmental context
Industrial heritage precinct featuring historic brick structures, pitched tile roofs, and an old chimney stack.
Spatial experience
The elevated structure floats over existing park space and historical industrial brick volumes, creating layered thresholds.
Composition rhythm
Repeating pitched roof ridges of the lower context paired with the sharp geometric diagonal lines of the upper cantilever.
Style reading
High-tech industrial intervention
Program
Energy center and public utility facility
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture

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Aerial and dusk exterior views of Jingdezhen Cloud Engine Energy Center by XING DESIGN, featuring a dramatic cantilevered steel roof truss.

景德镇云引擎能源中心-Cloud-Engine-Energy-Center

上海

An industrial heritage energy center by XING DESIGN that juxtaposes historic brick fabric with an expressive, high-tech cantilevered steel roof structure.

What we like about this project
A massive glazed triangular truss dramatically hovers over an open lawn and a historic brick chimney.

Materials

  • steel
  • glass
  • brick
  • concrete
  • metal-mesh

Visual identifiers

  • cantilevered-truss
  • industrial-heritage
  • steel-structure
  • elevated-volume

Style tags

  • high-tech
  • industrial
  • expressive-structure

Visual tags

  • industrial-adaptive-reuse
  • cantilever
  • infrastructure
  • high-tech
  • urban-regeneration
Geometry
An industrial campus context contrasted with a bold, triangular, cantilevered truss volume supported on heavy steel legs.
Facade system
Curtain wall glazing combined with perforated metal sun-shading screens on the upper triangular truss.
Structural guess
Heavy steel space frame and cantilevered trusses supported on concrete and steel columns.
Spatial scale
Large industrial scale featuring multi-story cantilevered trusses and a prominent vertical circulation tower.
Lighting
Top: direct daylight casting long shadows across green terrain and roofs. Bottom: dusk sky with warm internal glow and long red car light trails.
Atmosphere
Dynamic and futuristic intervention resting above quiet historical industrial grounds.
Environmental context
Industrial heritage precinct featuring historic brick structures, pitched tile roofs, and an old chimney stack.
Spatial experience
The elevated structure floats over existing park space and historical industrial brick volumes, creating layered thresholds.
Composition rhythm
Repeating pitched roof ridges of the lower context paired with the sharp geometric diagonal lines of the upper cantilever.
Style reading
High-tech industrial intervention
Program
Energy center and public utility facility
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture
Materials
steel, glass, brick, concrete, metal-mesh
Visual identifiers
cantilevered-truss, industrial-heritage, steel-structure, elevated-volume
Style tags
high-tech, industrial, expressive-structure
Visual tags
industrial-adaptive-reuse, cantilever, infrastructure, high-tech, urban-regeneration
Geometry
An industrial campus context contrasted with a bold, triangular, cantilevered truss volume supported on heavy steel legs.
Facade system
Curtain wall glazing combined with perforated metal sun-shading screens on the upper triangular truss.
Structural guess
Heavy steel space frame and cantilevered trusses supported on concrete and steel columns.
Spatial scale
Large industrial scale featuring multi-story cantilevered trusses and a prominent vertical circulation tower.
Lighting
Top: direct daylight casting long shadows across green terrain and roofs. Bottom: dusk sky with warm internal glow and long red car light trails.
Atmosphere
Dynamic and futuristic intervention resting above quiet historical industrial grounds.
Environmental context
Industrial heritage precinct featuring historic brick structures, pitched tile roofs, and an old chimney stack.
Spatial experience
The elevated structure floats over existing park space and historical industrial brick volumes, creating layered thresholds.
Composition rhythm
Repeating pitched roof ridges of the lower context paired with the sharp geometric diagonal lines of the upper cantilever.
Style reading
High-tech industrial intervention
Program
Energy center and public utility facility
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture

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