HANGZHOU ALIPAY BUILDING | WSP Architects

The architectural shape is divided into two sections by function. Two floors of the bottom are used as commercial podiums. In Building A, there are 20 small bay apartment-office floors except the first two floors. There are more than 400 units in total. In Building B, floors above the second floor are common large bay offices. The basement is mainly used as parking garage for motor vehicles and bicycles. Around the sunken square, there are some productive functional rooms for postal deliveries and staff canteens. Equipment rooms mainly concentrate on the second floor underground in Building B, near load center of energy consumption. The structure of podiums inside the two high-rise slab residential buildings is clear and represents corresponding functions The overall appearance is simple and carefully designed, which is quite consistent to the building style of modern high-grade offices. The building is divided into the internal and external parts. One is open to the city full of urban sense; the other is for internal services, with ecological features. Both the two high-rise slab buildings are 20m deep with good lighting and aeration. The Project is located at Tianmushan Road, Hangzhou. The natural conditions of the site are fully considered to arrange the high-rise slab buildings along the street, enclose a relatively quiet courtyard in north part, sinking courtyard is not only settles lighting requirement of basement but also rich space layer. 8.4meters column grid, two spans, 2.1meters extrude in four sides, that each building unit forming the 21m-thick sheet. The exterior face is expressed with ground glass and transparent glass and combines with double layer elevation, and the interface to the inside with stone and glass curtain, to meet the requirements on the directions and form the different expressions.