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SHANGHAI JIADING FINANCIAL CENTRE AEDAS
DY PATIL UNIVERSITY CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE, MUMBAI FOSTER + PARTNERS
The DY Patil University Centre of Excellence has opened in the planned new city of Navi Mumbai – a result of “close collaboration” between Foster + Partners and the university’s chancellor, Dr Vijay Patil. The 10-storey building has been designed to support the ethos of the university, providing “high- quality learning and living spaces for 3,000 students.” The project includes a two-acre sky garden with native planting, pond-life and areas for relaxation.
The building has been designed to minimise the environmental impact associated with water and energy use, material choices and operation. Communal covered courtyards, which are four storeys high, are oriented to optimise natural daylight and space on the triangular site. The entrance canopy is also four storeys high, with a glass roof that casts multi-coloured shadows across the building’s facade. An open plan reception area, exhibition space, cafe and informal workspace encourage social interactions between students.
At the heart of the building, four large, flexible auditoriums are arranged around a sunken amphitheatre. The library is arranged across four floors, and a sequence of tiers, balconies and stairs create what the architects describe as a “dramatic internal environment.” The corridors are naturally ventilated and offer glimpses of the two-acre sky garden which spans the full length of the building, between the academic and residential volumes.
The scheme incorporates a palette of high-quality materials, including travertine, timber, glass reinforced concrete, aluminium and sealed concrete. Ground-granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), has been added to the concrete mix, resulting in a paler concrete with a lower embodied carbon footprint. The project has achieved a LEED Platinum rating.
The new Shanghai Jiading Financial Centre has been designed by Aedas design principal Ken Wai. The high-rise project is located in the Jiading new city of Shanghai, and set within “ecological surroundings.” The high-rise Grade A office tower plus five other multi-storey office towers are dispersed within the plot. The project is located in a “well-equipped” new district, said the architects, with convenient transportation being adjacent to the urban axis of Yongsheng Road and the metro Line 11. The area is also home to ecological wetlands and vegetation, “which is rare for the city.” Wai drew inspiration from the reflections in
water, and used glass curtain walls to scale down the building mass. The architectural form has clear edges, with the sides of the main building slightly tilted inwards and its four corners stretched outwards, further weakening the building masses to create a “vivid and upright architectural form.”
The enclosed layout forms a communal square in the centre of the building. The overall landscape extends around the tower building, while the indoor and outdoor spaces are distinguished using natural greenery. As the design is circled around the concept of a “community office,” a multi-level shared space including an internal open floor plan, office terraces and roof gardens has been created. “Architecture is the art of responding to the environment,” commented Ken Wai. “We hope to create a community-based commercial hub that complements nature in the core city area, where headquarters of Jiading New City gather and grow.”
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