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ASCENSION PAYSAGÈRE MVRDV
DJI SKY CITY, SHENZHEN FOSTER + PARTNERS
Foster + Partners has completed the new headquarters for DJI, “a leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology,” in the Nanshan District in southwest Shenzhen, China. The two towers (44 and 40 storeys respectively) contain office and research spaces are arranged in “floating” volumes cantilevered from central cores by “mega trusses” and circular profiled steel suspension rods. The “asymmetrical suspension” steel structure reduces the need for columns, creating uninterrupted office and research spaces. It also allows for quadruple-height drone flight testing labs – visible externally through V-shaped trusses that give the towers their distinctive identity. At 105 metres, the towers are linked by a 90-metre-long suspension sky-bridge, with sky gardens at the top of the floating volumes. At ground level, there is a sloping green podium garden and public facilities such as a community healthcare centre.
MVRDV, along with co-architects ALL for real estate developer Groupe Giboire, has completed Ascension Paysagère – a residential complex at the confluence of two rivers in the western suburbs of Rennes, France. The 12-storey, 8,200 m² complex provides 138 homes, each with a terrace or loggia, in a variety of sizes and price ranges – including 37 units of social housing – as well as commercial spaces and public spaces. The project comprises two curving buildings, one large and one small, with “gradually receding slopes.” The elevations are lower where they are closest to the river and neighbouring buildings; elsewhere, the design “gradually steps up into three peaks,” reaching the full height in the centre of the composition. The facade features both matte and glossy ceramic panels in five different tones of grey, arranged into “stratified layers” said MVRDV, dark and mostly matte near to ground level, and lighter and glossier at the top levels. At ground level, the curves “define a series of public spaces, with a green pedestrian street between the two blocks and a plaza at the water’s edge that leads to Le Bacchus, a restaurant and theatre.” The project uses a variety of approaches to ensure sustainability and social responsibility, with 34 apartments within the smaller building being completed to Passivhaus standards.
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