Excerpt: Transformation of Sourper & Panda – Groupe Office Building by Atelier LI is an interior design project that aims to refurbishment a six-story office building in Qingpu, Shanghai. The design objective is to create spatial interaction between floors and a roof without vertical connection, with a roof garden as the key focus. The goal is to create a garden that transcends daily life on the building’s roof.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The design scope of this project is 5F, 6F and the roof of a six-story office building in Qingpu, Shanghai. How to produce spatial interaction among two floors and the roof having no vertical connection is the design objective of this transformation project.
The architects’ strategy is to remove one piece of floor-slab of 6F and a piece of roof situated aside to obtain a double-height hall and a courtyard on 6F, which builds vertical connection for spaces from 5F, 6F to the roof floor that is designed as a garden. The courtyard inserted on 6F provides a view, which can be shared by the hall on 5F, the corridor and the meeting room on 6F.
The roof garden is the key point of this project. The architects hope to realize a garden that is beyond daily life on the roof of this building. It will bring aesthetic surprise for the whole enterprise campus when meeting the needs for relaxing of the company executives. The roof floor is divided into two parts by the courtyard. They place in each part a triangular pavilion made of steel structure, floating slightly above the gravel floor with the walkway in the shape of a polyline, which connects the two pavilions.
White planting boxes are placed on the periphery of the roof, plantation belts separate the artistic conception of the garden from the outside. Triangular stainless-steel planting boxes are interspersed in the middle, with little trees and shrubs planted, floating in the garden.
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