Beijing Tianyuan International Center, zone C

Project Name: Beijing Tianyuan International Center, zone C
Location: Beijing, China
Time: 2006
Project leaders: Cui Kai , Yu Haiwei
Staff (design): Liu Yan , Chen Ning , Zhang Yuming
Partner Practice: Cui Kai Studio
Client: Beijing Tian Yuan Gang Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Area: 80,717m²

Beijing Tianyuan International Center, zone C locates on the intersection of Sanyuan Overpass East, the third Ring Road Northeast and the Xiaoyun Road. The architecture layout adopts enclosure form as Chinese traditional way of courtyards layout. The main office building is arranged in the south of the site and the accessorial athletics equipments in the north, which both form an quite inner green yard in the middle of the site with the walls closing off the unban noise exterior. The main office building adopts structural transformation on the third floor. In the first and second floor, the base of the building constituted by eight groups of major pillars with the walls sideward forms integrated bottom interface of the building. Design of each monomer building gives prominence to pithy figure and delicate detail to improve the architecture quality. The major material of the office building’s exterior wall is black polished granite, with the red metal plate window set, adopting the deep concave window and hiding light source between stone and metal plate. Such design makes deep shadows on the façade in the day and bright contours in the night, forming rich façade levels.