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Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone

8 November 2022

Creating a High-Tech Hub at Wenzhou Innovaland Start-Up Zone

Design: Aedas

Location: Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, eastern China

Aerial view of the start-up zone:

Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

Images by Aedas

Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province, China

Wenzhou is planned to be one of the global high-tech cities by establishing Wenzhou Innovaland. The start-up zone integrates technology, financial, wellness and education, creating a mixed-use innovative hub in Wenzhou. Aedas Executive Director Yaochun Wen and Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen have jointly led the team to create a pioneering space in the zone.

Responding to the topology to connect the urban environment and rivers:

Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

Embraced by adequate mountains and rivers, an ecological belt is designed around the zone with a spectacular landscape view. Located in the heart of Qidudao, it is set to be a people-oriented livable zone that connects the residences with mixes-use functionalities. Aedas Executive Director Yaochun Wen further explained the design, “We hope to create a humane workplace for scientists and enterprises, which is connected to the diverse leisure space with local cultural context.”

Design concept of “Island Chain”:

Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

Inspired by the connection between city and rivers, the design adopts an “Island Chain” concept. Rivers have shaped the vibrant waterfronts and weaved the islands, providing a synergy effect among R&D spaces, offices and public services to Wenzhou Innovaland.

Masterplan Creating a new landmark in Wenzhou:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

A dynamic workplace environment offers flexible offices for different enterprises. The high-rise office tower stands at the end of the major road. The vertical connection inside the tower integrates office area with the exterior. Garden office blocks are arranged in a jagged form along the river. The porosity connects the blocks with the outdoor terrace, courtyard and waterfront walkways. A riverside promenade and retail street are perfectly created whereas the architecture merges with the nature.

Creating a new landmark in Wenzhou:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

Garden office blocks that merge with the nature:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, Zhejiang province

Vibrant waterfront retail street:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

Three inter-connected office buildings offer flexible workplaces for workers. Retreating architectural form maximises the glass façade and outdoor terraces, injecting sufficient natural light and landscape view to the interiors. Courtyards provide a waterfront piazza within the buildings, which enhances the communication and connectivity in the zone.

Flexible spaces for different office use:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

Placing Art Centre as an iconic entrance:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

Placing Art Centre under construction:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

An iconic art centre is placed at the entrance where it provides an aesthetic and open space for cultural and business use. The exhibition centre in the middle accommodates large-scale conferences, exhibitions and events. Inspired by the seashells, the exhibition centre has a vivid architectural form and an ascending pathway that links zonings with different heights. A riverside performance stage further extends to the nature, gathering the circulation as an urban living room to provide a spacious leisure and entertainment area. The stage well-connects the buildings and the developments in the vicinity through pedestrian bridges.

Aerial view of the exhibition centre:
exhibition centre in Zhejiang Province

Aedas Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen summed up, “By integrating technology, culture and nature on the Wenzhou Innovaland, we hope to design a diversified urban garden for the start-up zone which will be advanced into a global high-tech hub in the future.”

* This competition design plan is subject to change in later implementation stage.

Artistic and futuristic exhibition centre:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone, China – Building Information

Location: Wenzhou, China
Client: Wenzhou Zeda Industrial Development Operation Management Co., Ltd
Design and Project Architect: Aedas

Gross Floor Area: 119,608 sqm
Completion Year: 2024
Design Directors: Yaochun Wen, Executive Director; Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal

A spacious communal space at the performance stage:
Wenzhou Innovaland Start-up Zone building by Aedas

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Location: Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, People’s Republic of China

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