Veronique HUANG Wei
Architects:
Personal Role:
Project Phase:
Scope of Work:
Girdear Headquarters (Office)
Atelier Jean Nouvel, Shanghai
Facade Co-Designer, Co Manager
Design development
-Vertical Element Interfaces, Facade Design Matrix, Material Study, Technical Drawing Coordination
-Visual Mock-Up Design and Drawing Package
- Deepen the interfaces and joints design of facade elements.
- Initiated design options to finalize detailed solutions to address client, consultant, and regulatory inputs (for example: redesigned openings to meet fire-fighting standards)
- Led consultants to refine technical drawings, ensuring completion of the design package.
- Researched and managed material selection and sourcing.
- Created material sample boards to ensure alignment with design specifications. (for instance: conducting research on metal binding techniques to ascertain optimal cladding profiles)
Softwares:
Development:
Location: Date:
Building Data:
Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop,Rhino
Guangzhou Dingtian Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd
Guang Zhou
On-going
GFA: 41,488 sqm
13 stories above ground, 2 stories below ground Height: 67.5 m
Site Area: 19,834 sqm
The Monolithic Socle (Base): This mineral-like foundation housed the reception and entry lobby, which evoked the grandeur of airport halls. The concept behind this volume was to blend it seamlessly with the surrounding treelined landscape that extended along the building’s length.
The Sky Garden: Emerging from the vegetated roof of Scole, the sky garden featured scattered pavilions, offering a serene retreat amid the greenery.
The task was to design the headquarters for the Taiwaness fashion brand: Girdear locateed in Guangzhou next to a highway. It served not only as the company’s private office but also as a commercial hub for the area, offering shared meeting spaces, offices, and a communal exhibition space. These were complemented by auxiliary facilities such as cafés, bars, and a sky garden.
The design was characterized by its distinct four-part volumetric composition:
Pilotis and Suspended Volumes: Slender pilotis supported a rectangular volume that housed Girdear’s private offices. A secondary triangular volume, featuring suspended box-like elements, accommodated a library and reading rooms, adding a dynamic architectural feature to the design.
The Transparent Vault: Serving as the sky lobby, this glass-encased space also functioned as a grand runway platform, designed to host Girdear’s fashion shows.
Indicative blow-up section line
Vault
5 Sky Lobby
Rectilinear volume
4
Office
Inverted triangle & overhung box
Library
Pilotis / Pavilions
Sky garden
3
Ground lobby
Short section shows the five parts of my scope of work (from bottom to the top1-5) Long
Folded metal cladding
Satin metal finishing
Vault structure with designed motorized louvers 1 2
Steel strcuture with glass
My job task was to categorize various facade elements for mockups based on the estabilished design concept.
-Conducted an in-deepth analysis of the design, focusing on facade modules, dimensions, interfaces, joints, materials and other key aspects.
-Consolidated the design solution and reflected them back to the overall design.
Design-oriented Technical Section showing the intersection of Pre-cast Concrete parapet wall with the planers at the roof of Socle
of pre-cast concrete panel for the podium
based on the material precedent
