Railway Management Center, Guangzhou
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos 

Railway Management Center, Guangzhou

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos 


Developed from a afar due to the pandemic, the project reinterprets elements from Chinese tradition, such as the ceramic pieces of the facade which, arranged in the production warehouse, evoke the Terracotta Army of Xian.

Located at the foot of Mount Baiyung, surrounded by greenery and by scattered constructions and roads, the building is inspired by the hutongs: dense traditional neighborhoods made up of narrow alleys.

Pragmatically conceived as a modular system based on the clustering of cellular units, the project is made up of three parallel linear volumes harboring identical and functional work areas...[+]


ClienteClient
Guangzhou Railway Investment Construction Group Co., Ltd

PremiosAwards
Concurso Internacional 1er Premio, 2019 Competition 1st Prize, 2019

Arquitectos Architects
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano
Patricia Grande, Johannes Hanf

SuperficieTotal floor area
57.000m²

ColaboradoresCollaborators
Patricia Grande, Fernando Nasarre (arquitectos de proyecto project architects); Marco Benfatto, Mariasole Benzi, Emilia Rosmini, Rubén Ortega Gonzalez, Cristina Sequero Barrera, Jean Yi Tan (equipo de proyecto project team); Drama Estudio (renders)

ConsultoresConsultants
Guangzhou Design Institute (GZDI) (estructura, instalaciones, protección contra incendios, acústica, fachada, dirección de obra structural engineer, mechanical engineer, fire safety consultant, acoustics, facade engineering, site supervision); Guangzhou Design Institute (GZDI), Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (arquitectos paisajistas landscape architects)

FotosPhotos
Xi Chen

ConcursoCompetition
2019

ProyectoDesign
2019

FinalizaciónCompletion
2021