Platinum Construction and Real Estate Projects Design · 2023
Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park Research and Development
by Aedas
- A' Design Award 2023 Platinum Winner in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Chuanjia Technology (Hangzhou) Co., LTD
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 933,285
- Verification code AB8A13721C · Verify this award
About Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park Research and Development
Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park is a research and development campus located beside Nanhu Lake in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, China. The campus brings together research laboratories, a visitor and exhibition centre, and support facilities. The master plan is shaped like a Bodhi leaf, and the open courtyards and view corridors follow the pattern of leaf veins. Modular office blocks can be linked to form floor plates of 2,000 to 4,000 square metres. A quiet central courtyard provides a space for meditation and reflection.
Aedas's Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park Research and Development exemplifies the aspirations of twenty-first century campus architecture, where the traditional separation between built environment and natural landscape dissolves into a unified ecological and technological vision, the aerial rendering presents a masterclass in organic site planning, with multiple research and development structures arranged not upon a rigid orthogonal grid but following topographic contours and sight lines that privilege connection to the surrounding lake and forested hillsides, each building volume displays a sophisticated formal vocabulary of angular folded planes that recall both contemporary parametric design explorations and traditional associations with clouds, sails, or mountain peaks, the consistent palette of silver-white metallic roofing creates visual cohesion while varied orientations and geometric inflections ensure individual identity for each structure, the serpentine elevated walkway threading through the composition serves both circulatory function and symbolic purpose, suggesting the flow of ideas and collaboration that defines successful research environments, atmospheric conditions captured in the image contribute significantly to its contemplative power, with layers of mist partially veiling the foreground and lending ethereal quality to distant views, this interplay between revelation and concealment invites meditation on the nature of knowledge itself, always emerging from uncertainty toward clarity, the integration of mature tree canopy throughout the campus reinforces commitments to biophilic design principles and environmental stewardship, viewers might consider how architectural form can embody institutional values of innovation, collaboration, and harmony with the natural world
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Alibaba DAMO Nanhu Industry Park is the first headquarters of Alibaba DAMO Academy, this project integrates the most technologically advanced research laboratories, visitors and exhibition centers, and ancillary facilities, to build a world-class scientific research institute on the banks of Nanhu Lake in Yuhang District, Hangzhou.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Space: Changing Sceneries with Appropriate Scale
In the center of the campus is a “Zen” like courtyard, a space for meditation and thoughts befitting the story of DAMO for learning and innovation.
Challenge: complex circulation
The finger-shaped office buildings are set in parallel with the view corridor while canteen and public amenities are sensibly placed in the center of the campus on the north-south central axis for easy access. - Production Technology
- Office: sharing efficient unit and special design
The R&D buildings are all designed to the latest trend based on “Neighborhood” teaming system blending work, meeting, and personal space to create a collaborative workplace environment. In order to maximize flexibility, modular office blocks could be linked to create workplace with floor plate between 2,000sqm to 4,000sqm. Working groups are distributed around shared amenities, atriums and communal space to promote communication. - Project Duration
- Completion Year: 2023
Location: Hangzhou, China - Inspiration
- Concept: A Floating Leaf
The campus masterplan design resembles a Bodhi leaf, emulating leaf veins created open courtyards and view corridors that maximizes the site potential. The resulting design appears like a Bodhi leaf floating on the surface of the Nanhu Lake, embodying the graceful élan of Hangzhou. - Image Credits
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