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The Jockey Club Innovation Tower
The Innovation Tower, School of Design Development for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Building
Completed
2013
Education
All-Concrete
71.2 m / 234 ft
15
1
7
28,000 m² / 301,389 ft²
Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
These are firms that consult on the design of a building's façade. May often be referred to as "Cladding," "Envelope," "Exterior Wall," or "Curtain Wall" Consultant, however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Façade Consultant" exclusively.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
Usually takes on the balance of the architectural effort not executed by the "Design Architect," typically responsible for the construction documents, conforming to local codes, etc. May often be referred to as "Executive," "Associate," or "Local" Architect, however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Architect of Record" exclusively.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
These are firms that consult on the design of a building's façade. May often be referred to as "Cladding," "Envelope," "Exterior Wall," or "Curtain Wall" Consultant, however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Façade Consultant" exclusively.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
2014 CTBUH Awards
17 October 2016
Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects
Density via high-rise structures remains a primary agenda in our era of urban concentration. It is crucial to understand the societal forces that drive concentration:...
The Jockey Club Innovation Tower is a new school of design building for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University which offers a creative and multidisciplinary environment. The building is located on a very tight and irregular site on the north side of the campus. It creates an accessible urban space which transforms how Hong Kong Polytechnic University is perceived and the way it uses its campus. The building projects a vision of possibilities for its future, as well as reflecting on the history of the university by encapsulating in its architecture the process of change.
The project re-examines and address a creative, multidisciplinary environment by collecting together the variety of programs of the School of Design. Having undergone a strict process of examination of the multiple relationships amongst its unique identities, these programs are arranged in the tower in accordance with their “collateral flexibilities.”
The fluid character of the Jockey Club Innovation Tower is generated through an intrinsic composition of its landscape, floor plates and louvers, dissolving the classic typology of the tower and podium into a seamless composition. Internal and external courtyards create new spaces of an intimate scale, which complement the large open exhibition forums and outdoor recreational facilities to promote a diversity of civic spaces, integrated with the university campus.
Inside, the building is configured as a place for learning, exchange and synergy; it is at once flexible, open and transparent for its staff and students. A series of fixed sun-shading louvers protects the building from excessive solar gain, while allowing maximized indirect natural daylight into its workplace. A series of maintenance walkways are implemented behind these louvers, with access from the building’s interior to provide frequent maintenance access. While the tower cantilevers over a footpath north of the site, and this path could not allow for any foundations, the superstructure was creatively engineered by using the three main cores and beam-column frames for lateral load and eccentric tower loads. The concrete superstructure adopts a strategy of raking walls and columns, with discrete transfer beams to free the lower public levels from structural obstructions.
The new pedestrian level for the tower has been created as an open public foyer that channels deep into the building. The integrated pathway from Suen Chi Sun Memorial Square guides visitors to the main entrance. From here, a welcoming public space provides access to shops, cafeteria and a museum through a generous series of open exhibition and showcase spaces, which span between the campus podium level and the ground floor.
From the entry foyer, staff, students and visitors move upwards through the various levels of openly glazed studios and workshops. The many studios and workspaces accommodated within the new School of Design appear as a variety of visual showcases. The route through the building becomes a transparent cascade of exhibition and event spaces - allowing the student or visitor to visually connect and engage with the work and exhibits. These routes promote new opportunities of interaction between the diverse user groups. In this way, the programs of the tower, comprising learning clusters and central facilities, generate a dialogue between respective spatial volumes and disciplines of design.
The energy and life of the school is reformed vertically, embodying an environment which can nurture design talents in a collective research culture, where many contributions and innovations can influence each other as a community.
2014 CTBUH Awards
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