Gianni Botsford Architects has completed the studio’s first project in China, The Technology and Research Centre for the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Oppo.
The Centre is housed in a 206 m tower positioned prominently within the new Singapore Sichuan Hi Tech Innovation Park to the South of Chengdu, the fourth largest city in China with a population of over 20 million.
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The Oppo Tower plays an important urbanistic role within the Innovation Park masterplan. Its clear, vertical form rising through 42-storeys provides both a central focus and legibility to the surrounding low-rise buildings.
The tower is punctuated with vertical recesses rising the height of the building. These break its large volume into smaller elements that, topped with triple-height “lantern” spaces appear to dissolve into the sky.
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The ethereal quality is also achieved through the dynamic and filigree effect of the pattern of the glazed facade.
This was created using a unitised curtain wall system comprising deep, continuous vertical mullions set out at different widths throughout the facade to provide varying densities of solid to glazed.
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The depth of these mullions has a positive environmental impact by providing shading to the facade.
The Oppo Technology and Research Centre has been designed to accommodate over 5,000 engineers and support staff.
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The interior of the building is discrete, a calm and serene environment conducive to teamwork and training. There are both quiet spaces for independent work and convivial spaces for staff to come together over a meal or event.
Gianni Botsford says, “The Oppo Technology and Research Centre Tower was conceived as a vertical village.
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To this end, its volumes are shifted both horizontally and vertically to achieve diversity in both plan and skyline, and to ensure unusually high levels of daylight for all users.
A typical floor plan benefits from a series of ‘rooms with a view’ staggered around the perimeter.” Source by Gianni Botsford Architects.
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- Location: Singapore Sichuan Hi Tech Innovation Park, Chengdu, China
- Architect: Gianni Botsford Architects
- Design (Collaborators if any): RJWu & Partners, Taiwan
- Project Leader: Hiroshi Takeyama
- Design Team: Gianni Botsford, Anahi Copponex, James Eagle, Minghsuan Lo, Luigi Parise, Mike O’Hanlon, Liz Tatarintseva, Hiroshi Takeyama, Luka Travas
- M&E Consultant: Zhejiang Huazhou Design Engineering Consulting Co. Ltd
- Façade & Scheme Design: CCAT/ LARGE Architects
- Façade Engineering & Design: InhabitGroup
- Interior Consultant: B+H Consulting International Inc.
- Lighting Consultant: InhabitGroup
- Landscape Design: Belt Collins
- Client: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd
- Site Area (sqm): 41,000 m2
- Building Area (sqm): 68,000 m2
- End costruction: 2023
- Photopraphs: Xiao Shihao, Courtesy of Laura Iloniemi Architectural Press and PR
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