Tianjin Towers

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Facts

Year: 2014

Typology: Highrise, Hospitality, Office, Residential

City: Tianjin

Country: China

Client: InterUAL Consultancy

Budget: non disclosed

Floor area: 3000000 m2

Team:

Lead designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd
Project architect: Gijs Joosen
Design Team: Pieter Schreurs, Matteo Baldassari

Tag That Body: Architecture

Shape That Body: Lean BIM, Parametric

The design for Tianjin United Plaza aims at integrating commercial, aesthetic and functional goals. Not as a compromise, but as mutually reinforcing concepts. We have set as commercial goal to optimize the amount of m2 that is allowed by the city to build. This goal we have developed in combination with the goal to deliver a memorable iconic urban image, supported by a unique architectural concept for the facade. We have taken into account the feasibility to build the design for standard market prices.

300.000 m2 GFA is realized above ground, which equals the max FSI of 7.8. The gross mass is ca 10% oversized like a loose fitting overcoat, which allows for max 10% void inside the mass of the shopping areas, the office and apartment towers.

Plot A contains a shopping area in the podium, dormitory apartments in the 180m high north tower, 5A offices in the lower 180m part of the 360m high tower, collective social spaces [sport facilities like tennis and basketball, fitness] and special MEP facilities in the bridging element between the towers, and apartments and hotel in the upper part of the 360m high skyscraper, with penthouses in the top levels.

Plot B has two identical apartment towers of 180m height, in the top floors connected by collective spaces for fitness, and exclusive penthouses, featuring double height spaces. All apartments are facing south, their spaces bright and panoramic.

All towers are placed on a podium of 3 high floors, with a 15m wide atrium space inside, the position of the atrium allows for shops of varying depth all around the atrium. The main entrance of the shopping center is located between the two towers, recessed with respect to the facade at the park side. The corners give direct access to the towers. The rooftop of the podium is an open access green urban garden, complete with small rooftop pavilions, directly accessible from the atrium space and from the towers on level 4.