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Juan Ramon Cantu

Juan Ramon Cantu

London, GB

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X Space Digital Park

Text description provided by the architects. Xpace Digital Park recycles a compound of unused old factories in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, China, into a new Startup Campus for Tech companies. The project updates the existing buildings supporting a new identity for the site transforming it in an urban attractor. The property has several large buildings and is surrounded by a very differentiated perimeter, with heavy traffic roads and one water stream. The design proposal focuses on two strategies: The first one builds a campus from many buildings. The intervention unifies color and material treatment through façade transformation, painting, and landscape interventions.

Nominated for Arch Daily's Building Of The Year 2021.


 
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Status: Built
Location: Hangzhou, CN
My Role: Calibrating the guiding curve that the fins follow and contributing to the flattened fin catalogue for fabrication.
Additional Credits: Architects: JL-Office + Studio Qi

Photography: Weiqi Jin