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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.

Exterior facade of Shanghai VI-PARK by XING DESIGN featuring perforated orange metal panels and contrasting dark steel spiral and rectilinear staircases.

上海大正万创新所立面改造-Wall-Maze-of-VI-PARK(请放一下链接)

上海

A striking facade intervention featuring a perforated orange metal skin overlaid with a dynamic network of black steel staircases and balconies, serving as an architectural labyrinth.

What we like about this project
The spiral stair acts as a freestanding volumetric sculpture anchored directly in front of the window and balcony openings.

Materials

  • perforated-metal
  • steel
  • glass
  • painted-metal

Visual identifiers

  • perforated-metal-panel
  • spiral-stair
  • orange-facade
  • external-circulation
  • cantilevered-balcony

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial
  • graphic

Visual tags

  • adaptive-reuse
  • perforated-screen
  • industrial-chic
  • facade-transformation
  • outdoor-circulation
Geometry
Grid-based multi-story facade punctuated by cantilevered balconies, projecting rectilinear stairs, and a central prominent black steel spiral stair cylinder.
Facade system
Perforated metal panel rainscreen system over a multi-story sub-structure with inset punched windows.
Structural guess
Steel frame structure supporting exterior hanging balconies and freestanding steel staircases.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial or office building scale with human figures shown on outdoor walkways.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun creating sharp cast shadows from the spiral stair and cantilevered landings against the orange facade.
Atmosphere
Vibrant, industrial, and dynamic with strong geometric contrasts between the warm perforated skin and dark structural steel.
Environmental context
Urban business park or adaptive reuse campus setting with surrounding mature trees visible in the background.
Spatial experience
Circulation is externalized into an open-air labyrinth of stairs and balconies, pulling movement across the vibrant orange perforated skin.
Composition rhythm
Vertical and diagonal movement sequences rhythmically breaking up a gridded modular facade.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial graphic architecture
Program
Commercial office park / creative workspace
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
perforated-metal, steel, glass, painted-metal
Visual identifiers
perforated-metal-panel, spiral-stair, orange-facade, external-circulation, cantilevered-balcony
Style tags
contemporary, industrial, graphic
Visual tags
adaptive-reuse, perforated-screen, industrial-chic, facade-transformation, outdoor-circulation
Geometry
Grid-based multi-story facade punctuated by cantilevered balconies, projecting rectilinear stairs, and a central prominent black steel spiral stair cylinder.
Facade system
Perforated metal panel rainscreen system over a multi-story sub-structure with inset punched windows.
Structural guess
Steel frame structure supporting exterior hanging balconies and freestanding steel staircases.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial or office building scale with human figures shown on outdoor walkways.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun creating sharp cast shadows from the spiral stair and cantilevered landings against the orange facade.
Atmosphere
Vibrant, industrial, and dynamic with strong geometric contrasts between the warm perforated skin and dark structural steel.
Environmental context
Urban business park or adaptive reuse campus setting with surrounding mature trees visible in the background.
Spatial experience
Circulation is externalized into an open-air labyrinth of stairs and balconies, pulling movement across the vibrant orange perforated skin.
Composition rhythm
Vertical and diagonal movement sequences rhythmically breaking up a gridded modular facade.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial graphic architecture
Program
Commercial office park / creative workspace
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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Exterior facade of Shanghai VI-PARK by XING DESIGN featuring perforated orange metal panels and contrasting dark steel spiral and rectilinear staircases.

上海大正万创新所立面改造-Wall-Maze-of-VI-PARK(请放一下链接)

上海

A striking facade intervention featuring a perforated orange metal skin overlaid with a dynamic network of black steel staircases and balconies, serving as an architectural labyrinth.

What we like about this project
The spiral stair acts as a freestanding volumetric sculpture anchored directly in front of the window and balcony openings.

Materials

  • perforated-metal
  • steel
  • glass
  • painted-metal

Visual identifiers

  • perforated-metal-panel
  • spiral-stair
  • orange-facade
  • external-circulation
  • cantilevered-balcony

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial
  • graphic

Visual tags

  • adaptive-reuse
  • perforated-screen
  • industrial-chic
  • facade-transformation
  • outdoor-circulation
Geometry
Grid-based multi-story facade punctuated by cantilevered balconies, projecting rectilinear stairs, and a central prominent black steel spiral stair cylinder.
Facade system
Perforated metal panel rainscreen system over a multi-story sub-structure with inset punched windows.
Structural guess
Steel frame structure supporting exterior hanging balconies and freestanding steel staircases.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial or office building scale with human figures shown on outdoor walkways.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun creating sharp cast shadows from the spiral stair and cantilevered landings against the orange facade.
Atmosphere
Vibrant, industrial, and dynamic with strong geometric contrasts between the warm perforated skin and dark structural steel.
Environmental context
Urban business park or adaptive reuse campus setting with surrounding mature trees visible in the background.
Spatial experience
Circulation is externalized into an open-air labyrinth of stairs and balconies, pulling movement across the vibrant orange perforated skin.
Composition rhythm
Vertical and diagonal movement sequences rhythmically breaking up a gridded modular facade.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial graphic architecture
Program
Commercial office park / creative workspace
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
perforated-metal, steel, glass, painted-metal
Visual identifiers
perforated-metal-panel, spiral-stair, orange-facade, external-circulation, cantilevered-balcony
Style tags
contemporary, industrial, graphic
Visual tags
adaptive-reuse, perforated-screen, industrial-chic, facade-transformation, outdoor-circulation
Geometry
Grid-based multi-story facade punctuated by cantilevered balconies, projecting rectilinear stairs, and a central prominent black steel spiral stair cylinder.
Facade system
Perforated metal panel rainscreen system over a multi-story sub-structure with inset punched windows.
Structural guess
Steel frame structure supporting exterior hanging balconies and freestanding steel staircases.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial or office building scale with human figures shown on outdoor walkways.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun creating sharp cast shadows from the spiral stair and cantilevered landings against the orange facade.
Atmosphere
Vibrant, industrial, and dynamic with strong geometric contrasts between the warm perforated skin and dark structural steel.
Environmental context
Urban business park or adaptive reuse campus setting with surrounding mature trees visible in the background.
Spatial experience
Circulation is externalized into an open-air labyrinth of stairs and balconies, pulling movement across the vibrant orange perforated skin.
Composition rhythm
Vertical and diagonal movement sequences rhythmically breaking up a gridded modular facade.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial graphic architecture
Program
Commercial office park / creative workspace
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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