Super Campus Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Central Green Axis

Clients: Shenzhen Bay Super Base Construction Headquarters Office

Date: 2020

Gross Built Area: 28 hectares

Project location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Design Team:

AZPML: Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Maider Llaguno-Munitxa, Ivaylo Nachev, Claudia Baquedano, Miguel Bello, Claudia Zucca, Carlotta Mendes, Ignacio Alvarez Monteserin

TLS: Si Zheng, Xin Zhong, Pablo Alfaro, Fan Wei, Ying Wei, Shuping Ye, Wanpeng Zu, Zhaowei Yu

Environmental Consultants: Climate / Klimaat – Meiring Beyers

Public Art: Betti-Sue Hertz

Our proposed “SuperCampus” seeks to create an interactive model for multi-levelled open space as a collaborative hub of global interconnection. Inspired by the open model of a college campus, it links business and research communities not only with each other but also with Shenzhen’s urban fabric and its ecological systems. “Aggressively biological”, the park is a living organism composed of 4 specific biomes which climb a topography of hills and invade hollows in the below grade layers to create a three-dimensional “campus mesh”.

The 4 campus biomes include a botanical forest and pool, an exuberantly vegetated transportation node, a grassland dedicated to cultural performance, and coastal zone with bay-related wetlands and avian habitat. A group of 5 transparent “Crystal Hills” create a moment of intensity within the overall mesh to house the bamboo forest and fill a regional train station with light. A series of sunken courtyards that bring the vegetation into the underground spaces are covered by lofty and delicate shading canopies of mesh crowned by large outdoor fans and chilled rain fountains for cooling in the warm Shenzhen summers. At the Shenzhen Bay overlook, large retractable fabric canopies span over a festival esplanade and a public green framed by terraced hills. Opening these canopies will be a dramatic performance in itself.

“Aggressively biological”, the park is a living organism composed of 4 specific biomes which climb a topography of hills and invade hollows in the below grade layers to create a three-dimensional “campus mesh”.

Each space in the SuperCampus is dedicated to cooperation and exchange in an open, non-hierarchical environment where social intersections and chance meetings fertilize the collaborative engagement between the SuperHeadquarters Base companies. And these spaces are framed and suffused with direct physical relationships to local ecologies – a business requirement as climate change comes to structure our enterprises. Our proposed “SuperCampus” seeks to create an interactive model for multi-levelled open space as a collaborative hub of global interconnection. Inspired by the open model of a college campus, it links business and research communities not only with each other but also with Shenzhen’s urban fabric and its ecological systems.