Shanghai Lingang Center

Location: Shanghai, China

Completion Date: 2023

Building Area: 41,458 sqm

Design Principal: Ping Jiang, FAIA

Design Team: Sean Lu, Yunpeng Ma, Xinyi Lu, Yun Gong, Chendi He

Client: Shanghai Zhangjiang Lingang Investment Development Co., Ltd.

Consultants:

Collaborating Local Design Institute: ECADI

Vertical courtyards integrated with landscape

The design of the Shanghai Lingang Center takes its cues from the current planning for Lingang new city, conceived as a series of vertically stacked courtyard. The project consists of a headquarter/ office, boutique hotel and supporting facilities. It provides a new paradigm of office building configuration as a flexible framework, which contains a diverse range of activities for for different user groups responding to the shifts in the leasing market.

Designed to optimize building orientation and maximize views towards the Dishui Lake and adjacent park, the centerpiece of the design is an outdoor pedestrian walkway that wraps around the podium and office building. The footpath connects and engages with pedestrians, tenants and guests with the roof terraces and indoor atriums, which range from corporate headquarter at upper levels, leasing office space to co-working spaces at lower levels.

The office building’s layout centers around an atrium, which also doubles as a vertical light shaft, encouraging natural ventilation by means of the chimney effect. In contrast to weighty office buildings, the hotel appears as a light-filled glass volume. The interplay of solid and light creates a tension between rational logic and natural elements, which gives this project its identifiable presence in the district.