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Administration Building of the North Shanghai Gas

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Location: Yining & Yongsheng Rd. Jiading, Shanghai, China
Design Team: Chen Yifeng, Liu Yichun, Liu Qian
Project Area: 2250 sqm

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Project Year: 2009

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This is the administration building of the North Shanghai Gas Company in Jiading. The

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needs of the function of this building are generally simple. With surrounding the undeveloped
constructional land, the site is small, and the only feature of the site is the river landscape

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close to the northern side. The final form of the building completely responds to the
landscape in the northern side. The public office space is evenly planned in the center of the
site, and the other spaces with special requirements, such as meeting rooms, VIP rooms,
flow as the individual shapes from the mainly rectangle-shaped office space to face the

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These individual spaces connected with the main building shape are generated a series of
linked-small-scale inner courtyards, which have broken the uniform of the interior space

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inside the building, and create a rhythmically inner space in the limited site, as well as bring
the sunlight into spaces in the northern side.

section

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The facade material is another aspect of the building. Corten plate is selected for the faade
of the space, and the interior courtyards are decorated with bamboo plate. In the

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meanwhile, the main office space uses fair-face concrete with bump pattern coming from
the horizontal templates in the process of concrete pouring. This enhances the distinction
between corten plate and bamboo plate. As for the attraction from the landscape in the
northern side, the building can be a unique status rather than an ordinary, which is
strengthened by the distinction of the selected material as well.

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1st floor plan

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pushkin
This is a language w e already know , but it speaks in a new fresh w ay. I like it.
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Architecture Lover
Im agree w ith you pushkin!

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jade
Good to see Chinese architecture can be so interesting!
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Cypress

yah, thats such a new w ay of speaking architectural language! I like the texture and the section so
much.
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