Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone Building, Chinese Commercial Architecture, Design Images
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone
8 November 2022
Creating a High-Tech Hub at Wenzhou Innovaland Start-Up Zone
Design: Aedas
Location: Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, eastern China
Aerial view of the start-up zone:
Images by Aedas
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province, China
Wenzhou is planned to be one of the global high-tech cities by establishing Wenzhou Innovaland. The start-up zone integrates technology, financial, wellness and education, creating a mixed-use innovative hub in Wenzhou. Aedas Executive Director Yaochun Wen and Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen have jointly led the team to create a pioneering space in the zone.
Responding to the topology to connect the urban environment and rivers:
Embraced by adequate mountains and rivers, an ecological belt is designed around the zone with a spectacular landscape view. Located in the heart of Qidudao, it is set to be a people-oriented livable zone that connects the residences with mixes-use functionalities. Aedas Executive Director Yaochun Wen further explained the design, “We hope to create a humane workplace for scientists and enterprises, which is connected to the diverse leisure space with local cultural context.”
Design concept of “Island Chain”:
Inspired by the connection between city and rivers, the design adopts an “Island Chain” concept. Rivers have shaped the vibrant waterfronts and weaved the islands, providing a synergy effect among R&D spaces, offices and public services to Wenzhou Innovaland.
Masterplan Creating a new landmark in Wenzhou:
A dynamic workplace environment offers flexible offices for different enterprises. The high-rise office tower stands at the end of the major road. The vertical connection inside the tower integrates office area with the exterior. Garden office blocks are arranged in a jagged form along the river. The porosity connects the blocks with the outdoor terrace, courtyard and waterfront walkways. A riverside promenade and retail street are perfectly created whereas the architecture merges with the nature.
Creating a new landmark in Wenzhou:
Garden office blocks that merge with the nature:
Vibrant waterfront retail street:
Three inter-connected office buildings offer flexible workplaces for workers. Retreating architectural form maximises the glass façade and outdoor terraces, injecting sufficient natural light and landscape view to the interiors. Courtyards provide a waterfront piazza within the buildings, which enhances the communication and connectivity in the zone.
Flexible spaces for different office use:
Placing Art Centre as an iconic entrance:
Placing Art Centre under construction:
An iconic art centre is placed at the entrance where it provides an aesthetic and open space for cultural and business use. The exhibition centre in the middle accommodates large-scale conferences, exhibitions and events. Inspired by the seashells, the exhibition centre has a vivid architectural form and an ascending pathway that links zonings with different heights. A riverside performance stage further extends to the nature, gathering the circulation as an urban living room to provide a spacious leisure and entertainment area. The stage well-connects the buildings and the developments in the vicinity through pedestrian bridges.
Aerial view of the exhibition centre:
Aedas Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen summed up, “By integrating technology, culture and nature on the Wenzhou Innovaland, we hope to design a diversified urban garden for the start-up zone which will be advanced into a global high-tech hub in the future.”
* This competition design plan is subject to change in later implementation stage.
Artistic and futuristic exhibition centre:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, China – Building Information
Location: Wenzhou, China
Client: Wenzhou Zeda Industrial Development Operation Management Co., Ltd
Design and Project Architect: Aedas
Gross Floor Area: 119,608 sqm
Completion Year: 2024
Design Directors: Yaochun Wen, Executive Director; Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal
A spacious communal space at the performance stage:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone buildings images / information received 081122 from architects Aedas
Location: Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, People’s Republic of China
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