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26/05/2026

Fuding Hospital is a regional general hospital in a small Chinese city, Fuding, Fujian Province. Rather than viewing the enormous hospital as a complex building, a multi-disciplinary design approach treated the project as a micro-city. The result is a highly robust, permeable, efficient, legible, varied, and welcoming place. Intuitive wayfinding utilises a rich variety of colour throughout the hospital, which, combined with connections to terraces and gardens, is uplifting and supports wellbeing and healing. The hospital provides an array of extraordinary and dignified public spaces which assert the maxim that healthcare is a fundamental human right.

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•monolith, diagonal terraces, hill-top-townThe factory program is expr...
17/01/2023

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•

monolith, diagonal terraces, hill-top-town
The factory program is expressed as a mass – a monolith with vertical fissures cut into its surface. It is more an unlikely geological feature than a building. Attached to this mass are two point-line-plane elements, one contains the diagonal terraces the other the hill-top-town.
building versus architecture
The clients wanted a building that was well built and that would work well now and into the future. BAU also wanted that – and more. By questioning clichés, seeing problems as opportunities, and not without a touch of poetry, BAU not only provided a well-built, flexible, environmentally sustainable building, they also provided a surprising and delightful piece of architecture.

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•Upside-down:Industrial buildings usually locate their offices on the ...
14/01/2023

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•

Upside-down:
Industrial buildings usually locate their offices on the ground level and the factory warehouse behind and above. In this project BAU asks, what can be gained by turning this now clichéd response upside-down? If the offices are placed on top of the factory they get a southern orientation, great views, a quiet environment conducive to an efficient working environment, excellent cross ventilation, and access to gardens on the roof of the factory.
Other opportunities then emerge. How to link the ground floor to the offices above? How to get customers to the admin levels? How to provide an enticing and active ground floor?

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•Communication, communication, communication!A primary objective for a...
13/01/2023

•Shanghai Hongxuan Office Building, completed 2006•

Communication, communication, communication!
A primary objective for any contemporary office is to enable and encourage both formal and informal communication.
At the ground floor is a lobby area that is exposed to parts of the manufacturing process – there is no back-of-house in this project.
The ground floor lobby is connected to the rooftop offices via a series of terraces and a grand staircase that connects all floors in one large and generous space that is stretched diagonally across the north façade of the building – this is not a dark and enclosed fire stair or corridor.
The office space is split into levels and wrap around an atrium that brings everyone within easy reach of the two adjacent floors, multiplying the communication opportunities, while provides everyone with a clear view of the garden – this is not an office of isolation.

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•This building announces the arrival of a new...
27/12/2022

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•

This building announces the arrival of a new housing development in Shanghai’s eastern periphery district, Sanlin. The architecture is required to assist with inspiring visitors to purchase a residential apartment within the development. The developer believes maximum architectural novelty may assist to achieve this end. Within the rapidly depleting vocabulary of novel architectural form this design utilises a strategy of smoothly carving a clearly defined block to create cave-like spaces within the building and a dramatic topography on the skyline.

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•Despite their high densities, new residentia...
27/12/2022

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•
Despite their high densities, new residential districts have surprisingly few non-residential programs provided until they are near completion, because it is only the developers of the final few housing developments in a district that see the provision of commercial tenancies as profitable.

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•This development is one of those projects an...
25/12/2022

•at last …finally …some diversity: Jindi SAnlin Sales House, completed 2008•

This development is one of those projects and consequently includes a commercial strip along the street. The programmatic mix within this building includes: recreation, office, and dwelling spaces. Commercial shop fronts will potentially emerge along the building’s edge facing the street and the canal.

•an exercise in robustness: Jiangyin Huifu Office TowerJiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•extruded sectio...
23/12/2022

•an exercise in robustness:
Jiangyin Huifu Office Tower
Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•

extruded section
The project was conceived as a very pragmatic L-shaped section, with a podium over the entire site and an office slab at the northern edge. This simple section is extruded across the site to become the form of the building. Thick facades are then added to this form.

•an exercise in robustness: Jiangyin Huifu Office TowerJiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•a container of ...
20/12/2022

•an exercise in robustness:
Jiangyin Huifu Office Tower
Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•

a container of potential:
At the moment the base of this extrusion contains mixed commercial programs. At the moment, the vertical leg of this form contains offices.

•an exercise in robustness: Jiangyin Huifu Office TowerJiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•challengesSitua...
19/12/2022

•an exercise in robustness:
Jiangyin Huifu Office Tower
Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. Completed 2011•

challenges
Situated in Jiangyin’s new CBD, this office tower challenges the dominant office typology of deep floor plates and generic sheer glass curtain wall facades.
thin building, thick facades
It has a narrow floor plate of 15.5m to enable natural lighting and cross ventilation. The south, west and east facades have deep screens for passive solar control in Jiangyin’s extreme summer. Balconies to the south enable conversion from office to residential use as the need arises.

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