Railway Management Center, Guangzhou
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos- Type Infraestructure Headquarters / office
- Date 2019 - 2021
- City Guangzhou
- Country China
- Photographer Xi Chen
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...[+]
Cliente Client
Guangzhou Railway Investment Construction Group Co., Ltd
Premios Awards
Concurso Internacional 1er Premio, 2019 Competition 1st Prize, 2019
Arquitectos Architects
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano
Patricia Grande, Johannes Hanf
Superficie Total floor area
57.000m²
Colaboradores Collaborators
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)
Consultores Consultants
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)
Fotos Photos
Xi Chen
Concurso Competition
2019
Proyecto Design
2019
Finalización Completion
2021
