Announcements August 21, 2024

Four Projects for Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters Are Now Under Construction

Work has begun on four new projects for global multimedia company Tencent’s new headquarters Block 05 West in Dachan Bay, Qianhai, Shenzhen, which will serve as the core complex for the entire campus. Covering 174,980 square meters, the development includes a public G1-G9 school, a private school, a community activity center, and a bus transit hub, providing a broad range of services, including education, sports, healthcare, culture, and transportation for the area. Designed to fulfill multifunctional needs within a limited site, the project forms a collective of unique, seamlessly integrated clusters.

Overall Site Plan Model of Tencent's Campus

A Learning Garden: The G1-9 School

The G1-9 public school area is 37,000 square meters and features an innovative, triangular teaching cluster design. This unique layout fosters an overlapping and connected learning composition, creating a flexible and transparent indoor-outdoor connection through a series of external corridors. These spaces integrate the school’s shared facilities, public teaching areas, and main communal places, embodying the concept of a “Learning Garden”.

Conceptual Model of the Teaching Module in the "Learning Garden"

Playground on the West Side of the Campus

The core teaching clusters are arranged in three tower buildings on the fourth to sixth floors. Additionally, a spacious rooftop garden on the fourth floor provides students with outdoor recreation spaces.

Roof Activity Space

The Qianhai Clover: Mingwan School

Mingwan School (Prep), at 82,000 square meters, is a pioneering school covering kindergarten through high school. It uses triangular teaching modules that replace traditional rectangular layouts, resulting in a distinctive “clover” form.

Conceptual Model of the “Clover” Teaching Modules

A trio of interconnected teaching modules form the core architectural volume: a shared learning community. This interconnected complex not only establishes efficient and clear functional connections, but also provides a flexible spatial framework for future-oriented, multidimensional, and interdisciplinary learning.

Main Entrance

Kindergarten

The clover-shaped layout brings a new organizational form and experience to the interior teaching spaces. Simultaneously, these modules shape outward-facing public spaces that open to varied urban perspectives, fostering a more approachable and engaging place for both the school and the city.

A Vertical Active Stack: The Activity Center

The 39,000-square-meter activity center provides comprehensive community services and activities for Tencent’s new headquarters. It comprises a sports center, a community health center, cultural activity spaces, a youth activity center, a community service center, a post office, and a community police office.

Conceptual Diagram of the "Vertical City Living Room"

Activity Center

Considering the tight site footprint, the design adopts a method of breaking the whole into parts, arranging each independently functioning unit vertically in a stack. A public circulation system connects these units, achieving balance between accessibility, shared use, and independence.

Alongside the public circulation path from the first to the fourth floor, the building features vertically connected open green terraces, creating a “vertical city living room” for local residents, visitors, and employees.

The sports center hosts a mix of urban activities in a vertical city space. With its broad vistas facing all four directions of the urban area, the round pavilion offers unobstructed views to the city, the bay, and the sea beyond.

Transit Hub

With an area of 18,000 square meters, the core traffic hub contains a bus terminal and parking, along with municipal facilities like a sewage pumping station and garbage collection. These components are coordinated to achieve functional composition and circulation requirements.

Efficiently Operating "Core Transportation Hub"

Front Perspective View of Transit Hub

Externally, the architecture is wrapped in a simple facade of pleated aluminum folded panels. The design establishes a rhythmic and sculptural landmark at the entrance of the campus.

Currently, construction is underway on four public buildings. It is expected that they will be completed and put into use by 2025.

Four Projects for Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters Are Now Under Construction

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