The Mobius Loop Headquarter Office by Gang Wu |
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| DESIGN NAME: The Mobius Loop PRIMARY FUNCTION: Headquarter Office INSPIRATION: The inspiration of the project is the Mobius Loop. The appearance in the shape of Mobius Loop and customized planning concept of Infinite Baidu not only integrate the core technical concept of Box Computing of Baidu perfectly but also represent its very promising future. In the layout in concert with the characteristics of courtyard in North, an 80m-span gallery bridge is connected to a 20,000m2 double-enclosed space of Baidu Square and Baidu World. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The site planning of the project respects for the Park's master planning concepts and completed all important street facade. Along the main road, a public plaza is created which gives Baidu a distinctive entrance. The buildings require the design to reflect concise and simple building style to exhibit the China chic. The employees of the enterprise are mainly young people aged 25 on average, so modern office environment needs to meet the needs of office life of more than 13,000 young people. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: A Park. A Plaza. An Icon. A Community for 13,000 IT talents: Baidu Science and Technology Park, which integrates diversified functions, is a community with complete functions and smooth microcirculations. The building saves 750,000KWh electricity and reduces 60K tons of CO2. Health equals Exercise: The building has a 1.2km long rooftop jogging track and the reading spaces have been smartly placed on corridors between buildings of the Science and Technology Park. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Started in 2012 and finished in 2017, Located in Beijing, China FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Baidu Homeland has reflected the traditional pattern of the city of Beijing. By taking advantage of the street side facing the road, the Baidu Plaza built on the red line of the construction land as the welcome park square of the headquarters park, and with five buildings interconnected through the air corridor, the project perfectly demonstrated the image of its headquarters campus under the condition of project land separated by urban roads. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The courtyard and atrium take advantage of ‘chimney effect’ to improve indoor air flow, which enable passive natural ventilation, energy conservation, environmental protection and comfortableness of buildings. The aluminum ribbon and roof solar panels can totally save 750,000 kWh of electricity for office buildings on a yearly basis. The reclaimed water system is expected to save RMB 395,000 of water fee and reduce 66,645 tons of carbon emission on a yearly basis. TAGS: Headquarters, Green Technology, Energy Saving, Office Building, Baidu RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The site planning of the project respects for the Park’s master planning concepts and completed all important street façade. The buildings require the design to reflect concise and simple building style to exhibit the China chic and they are determined with respect to function, scale, height limit, fire protection and so on. The employees of the enterprise are mainly young people aged 25 on average, so the office needs to meet the needs of office life of more than 13,000 young people. CHALLENGE: The way to fully reflect local features of Beijing and integrate them with design was the first issue that architects confronted with. The way to build headquarters buildings on scattered plots and maintain their integrality was the second one. According to urban planning criteria, heights of buildings are limited to less than 30m. It’s a challenge to build landmark buildings in this case. In an enterprise with an average age of less than 25 years old, design should meet the needs of young people. ADDED DATE: 2017-08-25 11:33:59 TEAM MEMBERS (26) : Gang Wu, Chen Ling, Knud Rossen, Nelson Tam, Li Donghui, Yu Fei, Weng Jinfan, Miao De, Zheng Jianguo, Scott Craven, Sun Peigang, Sun Ying, Han Jianhui, Zhang Xia, Liu Wenbiao, Sun Jinhao, Bai Yunxiang, Fan Lu, Wang Lina, Zhou Tao, Li Yujie, Zhao Tianming, Chen Jiawei, Zhang Litao, Deng Yu and Ma Guiying IMAGE CREDITS: WSP ARCHITECTS |
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NAME: Baidu PROFILE: Baidu, Inc., simply known as Baidu and incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum.[5] Baidu was established in 2000 by co-founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who have studied and worked overseas before returning to China. Baidu.com Inc. is registered in the Cayman Islands.[6] In April 2010, Baidu ranked 7th overall in Alexa's internet rankings.[7] In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.[8] Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[9] Baidu offers multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, and is the first in China to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search. Baidu proactively censors its content in line with government regulations. |
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The Mobius Loop Headquarter Office by Gang Wu is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2017 - 2018.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Gang Wu . · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Gang Wu . |
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