SMOORE Changsha Research Institute office building renovation

01 From inside to outside, the space extends The project is located at the corner of the main road in Changsha CEC Software Park. The office buildings in the park have a unified appearance plan, and the property has strict restrictions on the renovation of the facade. The company's external image display design scope is limited to the ten-meter-wide foyer, which is obviously not enough to form a sufficient visual identity for the nearly 40-meter-long building façade. Therefore, we extended the existing foyer façade inward and integrated it with the lobby façade and the elevator hall façade to form an L-shaped continuous display interface. Starting from the entrance hall, the company's Chinese and English LOGO, atomization technology information display, company performance display and other content are unfolded in turn, so that visitors can receive the company's scientific and technological strength and corporate culture more clearly and intuitively. In addition, we also introduced the concept of "show window" into the renovation of the façade, hoping to use a 10-meter-wide façade window to break the space boundary inside and outside the lobby, and form a company image display wall facing the street, to give the institute building a striking visual identity on the exterior. In the lobby area on the first floor, which is as high as 5. 5 meters, we chose U-shaped glass with fog sand treatment as the main façade material. This material can form a more overall visual effect, and can also well echo the spatial theme of atomization. In daily life,under the reflection of the translucent U-shaped glass, the hall presents a hazy scientific and technological beauty like mist. 5 meters high U-shaped glass wall in the hall▲ 02 From closed to open, laboratory and terrace garden We believe that a natural and comfortable office environment can make employees have a more relaxed office experience and can also promote the improvement of office efficiency. Therefore, the penetration of the inner office space into the outer garden platform is our important design strategy for the office area. Before starting the design, we deeply investigated the original working state of the institute. We found that compared to the way of working at a desk, researchers in the institute spend more time in the laboratory, and the enclosed laboratory space corresponds to the needs of R&D work. But the process of scientific research and development is long and stressful. Many researchers stay in closed laboratory spaces almost all the time, and only return to their desks for less time to operate on the computer. In front of the computer desk is also a relatively more active and relaxed office time for everyone. Based on such a working state, we propose that a laboratory-semi-open office area-full-open garden area should be set up to achieve a progressive level of space changing from closed to open, from indoor to natural, and from rigorous to relaxed. For the conversion of this kind of space scene, we hope to break through the restrictions of floors, so that colleagues in different areas on each floor can have active interactions during rest and relaxation time, instead of just staying at their own office and floor every day. At the center of each floor, we set up a unique functional traffic ring, which connects the office areas, offices, gardens and leisure areas on each floor, accommodating multiple “printing-pantry-storing-meeting-display” This kind of service function forms a vertical and continuous space path that runs through the inside and outside. The garden area on the fourth floor looks towards the office area▲ We have arranged all kinds of outdoor equipment in a centralized manner on the roof layer, freeing up more area for the multi-functional activity area on the roof. In the area where the roof is densely covered with fire pipes, we raised the ground as a whole. Through precise positioning and design, the original vertical and horizontal fire pipes were hidden between the raised garden and the sunken rest area, creating a more private and unique gardening leisure experience area with various vertical drop. 03 From technology to nature, the inner logic of materials ‘Atomization makes life better’, integrating atomization technology into life and improving the quality of life is SMOORE's corporate vision, which embodies SMOORE's corporate culture of combining technology with human care. Therefore, in the material selection of this project, we have extracted the material logic of "technology and nature" to fit SMOORE's corporate temperament. The aluminum plate with a sense of technology, the U-shaped glass reflecting the theme of atomization, the warm wooden walls and the floor and the suede warm carpet are presented through the juxtaposition of these two types of materials, echoing the space temperament of combining technology and human care. The material presentation truly conveys the experience of technology, efficiency, naturalness, and comfort. UU-shaped glass and green plants▲ com