OPPO R&D HQ Hangzhou

RECTANGULAR MASSING — A typical stab of shallow floor plates would provide office spaces with good access to daylight and the optimal width for planning. At the same time it would create a wall blocking the views of its northern neighbors.

CYLINDER — The translation of the office slab with ideal depths into a cylindrical form creates a courtyard building that is compact yet with large contiguous floor area for flexibility in use, at the same time reducing the overall visual impact of the massing in the skyline.

O-TOWER — Pushing down the southern edge of the building towards the ground...

DAYLIGHT — ... minimizes the outward facing surface area of the more solar exposed facades...

WATER VIEW — ...while maximizing views out from the inwards facades which are in turn self-shaded from solar gain by the geometry of the tower itself.

O-RING — A series of tripe-height void spaces and interconnected terraces under the sloping roof surface will provide visual and physical connectivity between floors, and the opportunity to introduce biophilic social spaces and shortcuts for OPPO staff.

PARK — At the heart of the tower, a publicly accesible courtyard becomes a living room for the city. The mineral landscape at its center transforms into a green and lush landscape at the periphery as it extends out to the waterfront.

INVITING GROUND FLOOR — The ground floor will be open with interconnected public spaces that seamlessly lead visitors and staff through lobbies, exhibition spaces, or out to the park.

FINGERPRINT FACADE — Wrapped with adaptive facade louvers that are oriented according to sun angles and building geometry to minimize solar gain and glare, the facade will also become a fingerprint for the building.

ICONIC 'O' — The new OPPO R&D Headquarters will not only bring OPPO employees to an innovation zone for global technology entrepreneurship, it will create a sustainable and vibrant community that will become an iconic destination on the Hangzhou waterfront.

PROJECTION — Projection of this unique pattern onto the 0-Tower.

O-TOWER FACADE — This is the solar optimized pattern specifically designed for the O-tower in Hangzhou

FINGERPRINT — The facade pattern is like a fingerprint which is unique and highly specific to the particular geographical location and building geometry. It is a unique fingerprint facade which no other building will have

RECTANGULAR MASSING — Typically, the best sunshading performance is achieved with vertical louvers at the north, east and west against low sun angle while horizontal at the south facade against high sun angle shading.

CYLINDER — How to translate / project this typical louver direction onto a cylinder tower?

SUN PATH — By looking into the exact sun path on our site in hangzhou, we are able to optimize the shading for the cylindrical tower.

SUN ANGLE — Based on the sun path in Hangzhou it is possible to calculate the precise angle with which the sunrays hit the facade.

UNROLLED PATTERN — This is how the unrolled pattern would look. Notice how the louvers get horizontal where there is the most heatgain from longest vertical sun angle to the south.