Pujiang Science Campus
Shanghai, China
Program Research and office spaces, Exhibition Hall, Canteens, Sunken Gardens
Size 153,000 m²
Client Caohejing
Year Design 2015-2019 Construction 2019-2022
The Puijiang Science and Creation Corridor integrates landscape with office building program as a seamless smart city collaborative workplace. We embrace technology and an environmental conscience in design, creating inside outside spaces for café, conferencing and exhibition. Inspired by the musical trope of “variations on a theme,” the seven buildings that comprise this mixed-use development employ a consistent design vernacular while playfully varying in massing, floor plan and siting. Together, they form a cohesive yet differentiated campus that interacts with the main thoroughfare to the north and the canal to the south.
Located off of Shanghai subway line 8 Pujiang Station, the 88 acre site stretches 2 kilometers long yet measures on average only 125m wide. Rather than simply dividing this long corridor like space into several distinct development zones, we planned the campus in a singular vision, one which gradually transforms its configuration like an Escher drawing.
Several key building types are identified from the get go. These range from rectangular center core buildings to pinwheel shaped tower clusters and to long and thin gently curving bars. Connecting within and between these buildings are a series of open and closed courtyards that create what we call "iconic voids." Two canals, one to the south and one intersecting the site at the middle, allow human scaled landscaped moments that bring the outside in. The final plan creates a campus that is defined by a richness in its urban fabric and a consistency in its quality of urban and interior spaces.
Three phases of construction are planned to execute the master plan starting in 2019. Phase 1 includes 6 other buildings of 11-13 stories whose localized cantilevers and eroded corners serve to become collaboration gardens that connect multiple floors. Phase 2 introduces the pin-wheeled tower cluster typology and also revitalizes the north south canal water front as a new commercial corridor. This corridor extends further south through pedestrian bridges to connect with the residential neighborhood across the canal. Phase 3 introduces the gently curved bar buildings, which combined with the other building types, create richly varied courtyards and gardens, interconnected by covered paths and sky bridges.
Yueqi Jazzy Li made critical contributions to this Ennead Architects project in the capacity of the Senior Designer.