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The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic

The International Campus of Zhejiang University (Zjuic) locates beside Juanhu Lake, China, occupying a land of 800,000 square meters with a gross floor area of 400,000 square meters. The campus's overall planning and design is based on 1 axis, 2 circles, 3 centers, and 4 zones. It absorbs the forms of relevant spaces and facades worldwide. The design enhances the guidance, fluidity, openness and publicity of the building complex by bridging the site’s north-south corridors and setting clear open spaces and routes.

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Rencent Office Center

Facing the sea, the building extends horizontally with the shoreline, echoing the topography and the surrounding buildings. The original building has a part of terrace on the sea side, so the design extends the greenery on the ground in layers towards the roof to integrate the building into the surrounding environment. Facing the city, the view frame approach continues to be used in the facade. Distinguished from the coastal facade, the view frame here to showcase itself to the city .

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Hongzhou Academy

The building is located at an intersection in Nanchang County, so it uses two typical blocks facing the urban road respectively which shape the building and form the entrance square. The building has a fairy well outline that reminds people of the traditional chinese building, and the elegant roof curve is very impressive too.

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Guobin Road

Focusing on the changing relationship between landscape environment and urban texture, a new look of jade can be seen through broken stones. With the help of modern materials such as stone and glass curtain wall, the natural artistic conception of simplicity can be expressed. The natural and organic combination forms in a disordered way construct a urban skyline, which makes people get along with nature, and achieves the harmonious communication among people, architecture and environment by means of multi space dialogue.

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Wacai Headquarters

Wacai headquarters located in Hangzhou, China is designed as a green and sustainable north-south facing building with extensive skyrise greenery incorporated within. The cylindrical architecture form allows maximum natural light into the interior space thus minimize the use of artificial lighting in the office spaces within. It is designed with extensive landscapes all over the site to offset carbon emissions as well as to regulate the ambient temperature in a bid to cut down on the reliance of climate control systems.

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Riga Residence

The project provides for the reconstruction of an existing residential building and landscaping of the site. The architecture of the facades of the building after reconstruction is emphatically modern, the principles of building facades are based on modernist principles, corresponding to current global trends. Contrasting colors and materials are used in the facade decoration, which emphasizes the complex and unusual shape of the building, more clearly revealing its features.

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