Xingyao Science and Innovation Park 

Text description provided by the architects. Xingyao Science and Innovation Park is located in Hangzhou Hi-Tech Zone, surrounded by many science and technology parks and industrial parks. Both sides of the park are old industrial buildings built at the end of the last century and a small number of newly emerging science and technology parks. The industrial space is relatively monotonous, and there are no places for communication and entertainment. Urban service capacity is weak. The design of this project does not focus on the internal office function only. How to add positive, open urban spaces and facades to the surrounding area became a major consideration in the design.

Open City Facade - The overall design of the building combines with the regional environment, presenting a personality that opens up to the city. Considering the main direction of pedestrian flow on the northwest side, the city entrance square is set up on the north side of the base and serves as the main picture window of the garden. It is broad in the south of the base. There are already urban landscape resources such as water systems and plants. A landscape garden is created on the south side to form a visual corridor extending to the south. The design retains and reconfigures the original 17-story office building on the northeast side of the base, and arranges three other high-rise buildings to form a closed plan with the original old buildings. By connecting them through high rise walkways to create a sense of wholeness in the park, it forms a pattern of "dynamic north and static south". This large enclosure, large openings and large-scale processing techniques create an open and atmospheric architectural image in the urban facade and also create a large-scale urban public activity space for urban residents.

Transparent garden space - The garden interior space design emphasizes the route selection of people in the building and the site, takes into account the multiple behavioral possibilities of users in the environment, and maintains the permeability and openness of the garden. The corridor gray space connects all the courtyards, and the platform retreats form a number of airy gardens where users can stay and rest until they can walk freely, forming a low-altitude closed ecological wandering circuit. The ground floor platform continues the closed layout of the main building. Natural entrances and exits are formed between building units. The green spaces of the ground floor square intertwine to form comfortable natural spaces and roof gardens of different heights, which make up the site elevation differences, break the haze of the original topography, and provide pleasant resting spaces for garden users. Landscaping on the ground floor centered on a sunken courtyard provides a cohesive space for interaction. The flexible outdoor green space gently connects the building with the common space, realizing the visual sense of landscape change through various windows, tiered design, and blurring the boundary between indoor and outdoor landscape.

Multi-tower Free Connected Structures - The design takes into account the freedom of activity of high-rise office space users. The elevated corridor with L-shaped enclosed volume connects the three main buildings to form a multi-tower structure, providing the high-rise office with the best place to view the south side of the mountain and enough space for rest and activity. While the multi-tower structure effectively enhances the overall sense of the park and provides abundant public space, it also leads to the problem of insufficient bearing capacity of the structural elements of the original building retained north. The design relies on effective means to reduce the amount of structural reinforcement as much as possible. The foundation adopts additional fixed stress piles and cored piles, and the superstructure comprehensively applies various reinforcement means such as section expansion, steel rolling, and carbon fiber composite material gluing, so that the existing building meets the seismic performance requirements after

Clusters of flexible functions - each cluster of building volume differs from the next, forming a series of common but varying combinations of spatial relationships and properties. It responds to the flexible combination required by a variety of desk situations. In the low-rise platform, one desk space is set up in smaller size. The small-sized blocks are subdivided and reorganized, and different spaces are created overlapping and intersecting, to form an office space that connects the courtyards with the balcony spaces. The large space above the podium with the main building is independent from each other but closely linked by high-rise corridors providing space for medium and large sized offices.

The flexibility of the public spaces allows the landscape, sunlight and air to permeate the interior, enhancing the transparency of the space and giving people a comfortable and bright experience. Within the building, lobbies and corridors are used to borrow and frame the view. Common spaces on each standard floor are set in excellent locations for staff to socialize, rest, view the view, and participate in group activities. A large number of gray spaces blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces, and at the same time, make the connection between each space closer, which is conducive to realizing functional transformation, and can organize the spatial relationship in a more efficient and comfortable way. The presence of Xingyao Science and Innovation Park fills the empty part of the urban public space in the area and brings a pleasant experience to the office and a fresh view of the urban facade.