Urban infrastructure serves as the backbone for a city’s economic and social development, ensuring steady growth. In recent times, the global outbreak of the epidemic has introduced both challenges and opportunities regarding the resilience of urban infrastructure. The pandemic has highlighted the limitations in China’s construction technology and the lack of comprehensive technical solutions, presenting new demands and challenges for the construction industry.
By optimizing building structures, systems, services, and management according to actual conditions and user needs, we can efficiently create comfortable, convenient, and human-centered environments. Embracing the concept of smart buildings leads the way in realizing green living, intelligent healthcare, artificial intelligence, and advanced industrial parks. These smart buildings become crucial in enhancing urban capacity and opening doors to the future.
Public data indicates that China’s smart city market exceeded 10 trillion yuan in 2019 and is expected to sustain an average annual growth rate of 33.38% over the next five years. The question remains: how can we spark innovation in this new wave of technology-focused infrastructure development? And what transformations will occur as an investment of 40 trillion yuan flows into this sector?
1. WIT120: Creating Interactive Healthcare
The Shanghai Intelligent Medical Industry Park aims to become a hub for medical big data innovation and headquarters for intelligent medical startups. Overcoming challenges such as low plot ratios and limited land parcels, it features a diversified, composite design including private courtyards, shared green valleys, smart parks, and three-dimensional ecological elements.
The design integrates smart healthcare technologies including office automation, medical imaging and communication systems, hospital information systems, medical equipment, and digital systems.
This approach surpasses traditional medical limitations by seamlessly connecting telemedicine, internet systems, online extension processing, hospital information, and business systems. This improves hospital resource utilization and delivers precise, high-quality services to park residents.
The design emphasizes infrastructure for IoT sensing, network communication, computing and storage, data integration, and service platforms, including system interfaces.
Medical information transmission is enhanced through video surveillance, infrared sensing, and IoT-based wireless remote control and operation of medical devices.
At the core of smart healthcare is an advanced IoT-enabled medical information platform within the park, facilitating interaction among patients, medical staff, institutions, and medical equipment.
Urban buildings in smart cities should embrace intensive development, resource sharing, and moderate expansion. With diverse business formats, comprehensive platforms, and complete facilities, spaces should be intelligently planned, organically connected, and adaptable, making parks more efficient and vibrant.
The goal is to establish a comprehensive, eco-friendly, intelligent, and futuristic office environment, alongside a world-class intelligent medical industrial park.
2. Future Building Needs: Green Wisdom
The design competition for Shanghai New Golden Ring Plaza seamlessly integrates city, culture, and ecology to create a poetic shopping and leisure space. It preserves cultural landmarks while incorporating smart office and creative development, embodying the “green wisdom” essential for future architecture.
The design respects local conditions, highlights the spirit of Taopu Han Tower, emphasizes historical depth, inherits cultural styles, and shapes cultural landmarks. It creates a centralized exhibition and experience center for Taopu culture.
Smart cities prioritize efficient resource and energy use while addressing environmental pollution. Smart buildings are evolving toward green ecological designs.
Building orientation, shape, structure, and energy-saving technologies should be tailored to local conditions. Renewable energy use and natural light and wind efficiency should be maximized. Building materials should prioritize renewable and biodegradable options.
Prefabricated building construction is strongly promoted due to its compatibility with ecological and sustainable smart city development, offering advantages in construction efficiency, quality management, and environmental protection.
A green lifestyle inspired by the beauty of mountains and water is encouraged, creating an ecological environment with flowing clouds and water. This approach fosters a park-style shopping experience alongside ecological office, green living, and leisure spaces.
Extensive greening, green office environments, and organic employee catering promote ecological low-carbon development within the park. Technological intelligence is achieved through big data management, smart services, and low-carbon technology applications.
Utilizing cutting-edge science, the park adopts a TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) model integrating transportation hubs, commercial zones, office spaces, open areas, residential blocks, and secondary facilities. This attracts renowned enterprises to establish themselves in the smart innovation core of Taopu, driving development transformation.
The “smart parking system” allows users to hand over their cars to an automated parking garage system. With an app-based reservation, parking and retrieval can be completed within ninety seconds.
Visitors stroll through the “Han Tower Time and Space Corridor,” using their phones to view the Han Tower’s silhouette and enter Taopu’s historical space via AR animation, gaining insight into its 800-year spiritual significance.
The “shared office area,” spanning three connected floors, buzzes with activity: brainstorming in intelligent meeting rooms, collaborating via remote shared office software, and holding AR-enabled international conferences.
The “Supporting Fitness Space” automatically reserves gym slots based on schedules, recommends coaches, tracks fitness goals and metrics, and provides intelligent reminders to adjust workouts.
The bustling shopping mall’s “commercial atrium space” offers customers an enhanced shopping experience through intelligent services such as AR fitting rooms, personalized food recommendations, and promotional activities.
The “Party Building Exhibition Space” digitally showcases Party history in immersive 3D, recreating key events and attracting continuous interactive visitor engagement.
Continuing the tradition of “meeting like-minded people amidst high mountains and flowing waters,” Taopu attracts and collaborates with Fortune 500 companies, fostering mutual growth.
3. Artificial Intelligence: Starting from Industrial Parks
Artificial intelligence, as a major driver of technological revolution and industrial transformation, greatly influences China’s tech industry opportunities. Acting as the main carrier, AI headquarters integrate scientific and educational resources with high-tech industry development, gathering innovation resources and fostering a thriving environment.
The intelligent economy model combines IoT, AI, and adaptive services, with smart buildings playing an integral role. Providing a high-standard cross-industry integration environment for AI development is a key focus.
The intelligent industrial park incorporates data collection, commercial applications, management platforms, and integrated endpoints. Built on cloud computing, big data, IoT, and AI, it forms a comprehensive digital system that fully connects and integrates data, systems, and business processes. The park’s resources and operations become transparent and manageable via an intelligent operation system.
The co-working shared office concept emphasizes creating various shared spaces—such as experiential AI parks and interactive communication environments—to facilitate information sharing and foster a warm, intelligent industrial office community.
Machine learning manages data centers, new materials, sensors, dynamic monitoring, building automation, and intelligent lighting systems. AI plays a critical role in energy management for large industrial parks, optimizing power usage and reducing consumption.
Additionally, machine learning predicts and prevents building issues and equipment failures by monitoring the health status of park facilities.
The fusion of AI and intelligent buildings exemplifies cross-industry integration. Driven by innovative theoretical technologies, it aims to establish a high-end, green, and innovative ecological environment that meets future development needs.
4. 7×24 Hours: The Concept of Spatiotemporal Intelligence
The Beidou Navigation Industry Park is designed with satellite orbits in mind. Buildings are arranged like satellites scattered along these orbits, with the “Big Dipper” as the park’s center, paralleling the satellite paths.
This industrial park combines ecology, intelligence, and R&D functions, breaking the time constraints of traditional parks by adopting a “7 * 24 hour” concept. It supports diverse activities across work, meals, meetings, rest, entertainment, fitness, and residential zones, establishing a highly utilized, community-based industrial environment.
High-tech intelligent parks are vital for implementing technological projects, significantly contributing to economic and scientific progress, and serving as key drivers of urban economic growth.
The “7×24 hour” spatiotemporal intelligent building leverages integrated intelligent information, combining architecture, systems, applications, management, and optimization. It offers a safe, efficient, convenient, and sustainable environment.
As part of smart cities, these buildings communicate in real-time with surrounding buildings, communities, people, energy, and information systems to optimize comfort, convenience, and energy efficiency. Its core features include online connectivity, openness, adaptive capabilities, and endogenous data models.
The “7×24 hour” park represents an intelligence upgrade, optimizing human-machine-environment interactions and complementing each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
The future office concept includes flat management, open office areas, and intelligent office systems. The park features convenient ground and underground transportation, all-weather unmanned driving test fields with multi-loop V2X, and UAV testing zones. With Beidou Navigation, 5G, and AI cloud platforms, it is the preferred office location for innovative companies focused on smart navigation, logistics, and smart city development.
Intelligent buildings constitute a complex ecosystem involving the building itself and user habits. Therefore, park renovation emphasizes greening efforts, leveraging market mechanisms and third-party institutions, and integrating investment, projects, technology, standards, finance, taxation, and information transparency to embed greening into planning.
Spatial layout, industry access, infrastructure, resource and energy use, pollution control, and operational management all promote the park’s development towards a green, service-oriented, and high-end model, comprehensively improving its ecological level.
The Beidou Navigation Industry Park operates under the Park 4.0 model, supported by a replicable, promotable, and verifiable modern governance standard system. The park and its enterprises collaborate through symbiosis, coordinated development, integration, and win-win cooperation to build an innovative ecosystem together.
With industry as the foundation, smart buildings drive urban renewal and enhance service support, further increasing land value. They form the basis for the “industry-city integration” concept, merging industrial and urban development.
Smart buildings and smart parks serve as pioneers in integrating industry and city life, acting as new engines for regional economic growth and hubs for intelligent elements. They continuously support urban industries and cultural vitality.
In this era of both opportunities and challenges, achieving the vision of smart building and park development requires policy backing for smart city construction, theoretical guidance in urban planning, and multi-sector support for innovation, research, and development of emergency and growth management technologies and comprehensive technical resources.
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