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Tencent's new headquarters "Penguin Island" living supporting buildings, designed by Perkins

2024-07-26

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The 05th Street West of Tencent Headquarters Park is located in Dachan Bay, Qianhai, Shenzhen. It is the core life supporting group of the entire park, including a nine-year public school, a private school, a community activity center and a comprehensive bus station, providing comprehensive services such as education, sports, health care, cultural activities, and transportation for the entire area. The total construction area is 174,980 square meters. In response to complex functional requirements and limited land conditions, the design uses simple and clear form and space strategies to create a series of unique and harmonious architectural communities.









“Vertical Urban Living Room” / Activity Center

The activity center has a construction area of ​​about 39,000 square meters. It is a community comprehensive service and cultural activity facility in Tencent headquarters park. It includes multiple types of relatively independent public functions such as sports center, community health center, cultural activity room, youth activity center, community management, community service center, post office and community police station. Under the extremely limited land scope, the design uses the method of breaking the whole into parts to arrange the relatively independent functions in the vertical direction and penetrate them with public streamlines, which satisfies the balance between the accessibility, sharing and independence of each function of the whole facility.









"Visit/Study/Garden" / Nine-year public school

The nine-year public school has a construction area of ​​about 37,000 square meters and adopts an innovative triangular teaching group system. This unique layout forms a learning community that echoes each other, and creates a flexible and transparent space experience through an external corridor transportation system. The highlight of the school lies in the "tour/learn/garden" concept from the first to the third floor, which cleverly connects indoor and outdoor spaces, cleverly integrates the school's shared facilities, public teaching and major social venues, and creates an open, interactive, dynamic and interesting learning park. The fourth to sixth floors form a core teaching group in the form of three towers, and an open roof garden is opened on the fourth floor to provide students with a more convenient outdoor leisure activity venue.









Qianhai "Clover" / Mingwan School

Mingwan School is a private school covering all stages from kindergarten to high school, with a construction area of ​​about 56,000 square meters. The school replaces the traditional rectangular module with an innovative triangular teaching building module to form a unique "clover" overall layout. Three interconnected teaching modules form the core building volume of the school, forming a shared "learning community" in the interactive central area, and jointly constructing a highly interconnected "teaching complex". Internally, this natural and flexible design brings a new form of teaching space organization, providing independent learning spaces for students of different school ages. Through the connection between modules and the design of shared areas, communication and interaction between different stages of study are promoted, creating a vibrant learning atmosphere. The clover-shaped design brings a new experience and efficient and clear functional links, while providing a flexible spatial framework for future-oriented multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary innovative learning. Externally, the clover shape shapes public spaces that open to different directions of the city, creating a more friendly place for the school and the city.

At the same time, along this public circulation from the first floor to the fourth floor, the building has created a vertically connected open green terrace, opening up a "vertical urban living room" for the citizens and injecting rich urban activities into the vertical urban space. The sports center, which requires a closed large space, "floats" on the top of the 5-7-story building with a pure volume, facing the urban area and the bay with an open view, creating a "panoramic view on all four sides" of the citizen building landmark.







“Core Transportation Hub” / Integrated Station

The integrated station is the core transportation hub of the entire headquarters park, including transportation facilities such as the bus terminal, integrated parking lot, and municipal facilities such as sewage pumping station and garbage station. It is highly complex in terms of functional composition and flow requirements. In terms of functional layout, the sewage pumping station and garbage station are planned to have independent land and traffic flow lines; the bus terminal and the integrated parking lot adopt an integrated layout and vertical zoning planning strategy to form a dynamic system in which "people flow" and "vehicle flow" run in parallel and operate efficiently in the architectural space. In addition to the complex functional facilities and flow system, the building is covered with a simple and smooth facade, creating a rhythmic and sculptural iconic image at the entrance of the entire park.







Currently, four public buildings in the West District of the Fifth Street Block in Tencent’s headquarters park are under construction and are expected to be completed and put into use in 2025.

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Project Information

Architect: Perkins & Will

Project address: Dachanwan Port Area, Baoan District, Shenzhen

Estimated completion year: 2025

Project area: 211,977 sqm

Construction drawing design: Pengqing Architecture and Planning Design Co., Ltd.

Landscape Design: SWA Group

Intelligent Consultant: Guangdong Architectural Design and Research Institute Shenzhen Branch

Acoustic Consultant: Hong Kong Engineering Consultants (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Lighting consultant: China Academy of Urban Planning and Design + LPA consortium

Kitchen Consultant: Jiren Catering Services Co., Ltd.

Sports Center Consultant: Kaisa Group Co., Ltd.

Logo consultant: Shanghai Baiyu Creative Design Co., Ltd.

Overall sponge city consultant: Shenzhen Academy of Building Research Co., Ltd.

Traffic Consultant: Lin Tongyan International Engineering Consulting (China) Co., Ltd.

Green building consultant: Atkins Consultants (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Traffic impact assessment unit: Shenzhen Integrated Transportation Design Institute

Client: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Photographer: Perkins & Will