Amid rapid technological advancements, the goal is to establish a benchmark network security research and development park centered on humanization and sustainable development principles. The 360 Tianjin Entrepreneurship Platform is situated within the High-tech Industrial Development Zone. Embracing the enterprise’s brand spirit of “openness and innovation,” it conducts multidimensional sustainable intelligent design research and practice. By considering enterprise attributes and industry perspectives, it strengthens the “360” concept and spirit, delivering a spatial representation of a technology enterprise R&D park.
Located in Huayuan Science and Technology Park within the Tianjin High-tech Zone, the 360 Tianjin Entrepreneurship Platform is envisioned as a future growth engine for the regional economy and technology sector. Its planning and design emphasize a green, efficient scientific research and high-tech R&D environment, featuring an appropriate and human-centered design approach.
The site’s western edge borders the main urban artery, while the eastern side faces the primary landscape orientation. The building skyline gently steps down from west to east, optimizing landscape views and enhancing the display facade. The design harmoniously integrates with the surrounding environment, creating a multi-level park space through thoughtful spatial organization.
The overall design concept integrates respect for the environment, spatial harmony, cultural awareness, and operational efficiency, aiming to establish a C+C innovative industrial park model. The architecture draws inspiration from the binary code “0 and 1,” symbolizing technology’s transformative power. A circular form embodies the all-encompassing “360” concept, creating an innovative CAMPUS & COMMUNITY model — a combined living and working space.
The park enhances its supporting facilities by providing leisure areas and rooftop sports grounds tailored for highly educated professionals, fostering inspiration and communication. This design embodies the transition from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, reflecting the core values and technological DNA of Internet enterprises.
Outdoor plazas surrounded by diverse functional spaces, along with earth-covered hills concealing auxiliary facilities, reduce the visual mass of the main building and alleviate spatial oppression, creating a more inviting and relaxed atmosphere. Vertically, maintaining consistent functional space areas while adjusting form reduces the building’s perceived dominance and presents a more upright visual appearance. The setback design organically integrates the building with site boundaries and the circular structure, enclosing each unit within semi-open outdoor spaces, emphasizing contrast between horizontal and vertical lines throughout the community.
Green Island and Vitality Space
The 360 Tianjin Entrepreneurship Platform fuses a nature-friendly green island “hill” with contrasting rigid, clear floating volumes. The green island forms a tall, column-free space, while the hill and outdoor landscape create public areas of various scales featuring distinct themes, defining a new future for technology parks.
Floating building volumes on the green island differentiate public and private architectural spaces, establishing a clear spatial flow. On the west side of the site, greenery dominates, with landscaping integrated around the circular building’s interior and exterior. Landscape elements align with the horizontal curve of the circular structure, fostering a natural, cohesive flow and imbuing the park with vitality.
Horizontal lines emphasize the circular building’s expansive reach, while vertical lines highlight the uprightness of adjacent high-rises, creating a dynamic spatial interplay that enriches both the urban street facade and park experience.
The facade design embraces sustainable development by combining active technological systems with passive environmental strategies. This approach effectively reduces energy consumption for lighting, ventilation, heating, and cooling, supporting green design goals.
Outdoor activity areas, exposed to long summer daylight hours, are equipped with shading devices to enhance user comfort. These sunshades are strategically placed in areas with moderate sunshine to optimize shading.
Greenery on the rooftops and inner courtyard of the circular building improves the microenvironment of the park. Site layout and building forms are designed considering wind patterns: southeast winds prevail in summer, while stronger northwest winds occur in winter. The design balances perceived wind speeds at ground level and transparency in upper layers.
The R&D building’s exterior features a glass curtain wall paired with a grille system. Horizontal grilles on the north and south facades provide shade and reflect natural light deeper indoors, reducing reliance on artificial lighting. Vertical grilles on the east and west facades employ a smaller grid design to enhance sun shading, especially in the west. Electric opening fans on the exterior curtain wall supplement natural ventilation during transitional seasons.
The scientific research and production building also features a glass curtain wall with aluminum panel eaves. Its circular form includes 1.9-meter-deep aluminum overhangs between floors, offering all-directional shading while reflecting sunlight indoors to brighten deep interior spaces. Vertically varied grilles on the facade adjust shading and lighting according to sunrise angles. Electric opening fans installed on the office area’s curtain wall above the second floor increase airflow and indoor comfort.
The multi-dimensional energy system integrates building automation and energy management, enabling unmanned equipment room operations. Utilizing PID logic strategies, the system controls equipment start-stop, frequency, and electric valve openings based on indoor conditions and device status, ensuring efficient operation and saving over 25% of energy.
The air conditioning cold source employs ice storage technology, leveraging low off-peak electricity rates at night to ease grid pressure and balance peak and valley loads. This approach reduces overall operating costs and installed refrigeration capacity. The ice storage capacity is designed to handle about 30% of the total daily cooling load, cutting air conditioning operating expenses by approximately 25-30%.
The R&D office building uses an internal-external zoning air conditioning system: an outer fan coil unit system and an indoor VAV (variable air volume) system. The VAV system, with a single duct terminal, enhances temperature and humidity control, improves air quality, and allows variable frequency fan operation for energy savings under partial load. Fresh air intake adjusts according to indoor CO2 levels, maximizing fresh air during transitional seasons for comfort. This system reduces operating costs and refrigeration capacity by 10-20%.
As a key initiative to advance the network information security industry within the high-tech zone, the completion of the 360 Tianjin Entrepreneurship Platform will bolster the development of the information security sector and attract innovative talent. It will also serve as a catalyst for the growth of the national cybersecurity industry.
ARCHILAND Construction International pursues sustainable design throughout the project with the vision of “innovation unlimited.” By maximizing the infinite possibilities represented by “0 and 1,” the firm strives to create an ecological, human-centered, low-carbon technology R&D community.
Project Drawings
△ Position Diagram
△ General Layout Plan
△ First Floor Plan
△ Second Floor Plan
△ Underground Floor Plan
△ Elevation Drawing
△ Elevation Drawing
△ Section Diagram
△ Analysis Chart
△ Analysis Chart
△ Analysis Chart
Project Information
Architect: Archiland
Area: 166,145 square meters
Project Year: 2022
Client: Tianjin Qihan Real Estate Development Co., Ltd
Landscape Design: Tianjin Garden Planning and Design Institute
Interior Design: Hubei Yitian Architectural Decoration Design Co., Ltd
Construction: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd
Location: Tianjin
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