- I-MAD ARCHITECTS China

Very slick!

whilst working at Lab architecture studio for 9 months we competed against Mads winning competition bid for the guangzhou sun plaza.

The Guangzhou international biology island is a new science and technology development zone led by biological industry. Sun Plaza is an integral part of the technology and service system on the island, which greatly promotes the general environment image of the biology island. Situated at the island center near Guanshan watercourse, Sun Plaza is on the same axis with the campus city across the river. The site area is 107,076 sqm in all, and the building area is 73,000 sqm. Sun Plaza is the center of the sceneries, meetings, exhibitions, technologies, and services on the international biology island, and it will make another landmark for Guangzhou city by the time of completion. Considering the existing situation of Sun Plaza, we seek to enhance the function of architecture with innovative design which allows the nature and human activities to connect to and interact with each other. Sun Plaza is designed to resemble an undulating surface, where meetings, exhibitions, technologies, and services center are linked up and formed an integral construction. The architecture floats on the island, making full use of the open space while protecting three ancient ancestral temples in this area: Chengong temple, Huadi temple and Chenshi Dazong temple. The architecture is no longer deemed as an obstruction to the space, in fact, it has developed an open space where the new architecture and cultural relics co-exist in perfect harmony. Sun Plaza consists of nine core tubes, offices, business, meeting, exhibition, scientific research function area, where the concept for independent building is overlooked. The 3-dimensional organization makes it possible for the outdoor open space to be shared while retaining the independence of each single unit. Moreover, the building creates two layers vertically: the ground-level natural landscape system and the upper structure of urban scenery platform. The sceneries and various facilities create a huge garden-like architectural space. People could enter Sun Plaza from all around to experience and enjoy the sharp contrast posed by the old architecture and the new ones, the natural and the artificial sceneries.

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