The project assignment was to design a shopping mall over 2 plots and two tower buildings. The biggest challenges were to provide enough sunlight for residential units on the north side, a design shopping mall that would prioritize people flow from the subway station, to design big bus terminal station on the ground floor of the shopping mall, and to create a bigger tower which would contain government office, bookstore, regular offices, hotel, apartments, and observatory.
The two towers are rotated about 45 degrees. In this way, four facades can enjoy the most direct natural features of the Science City, and two towers are creating a nice welcoming gate feeling towards the subway where is the main entrance to the shopping mall. Through the common point of the two concepts – ecology and science, the basic main tower shape is spiral.
From the subway, people can enter the indoor open lobby, called the city living room, where are the main point of people gathering and activities. The city living room is accessible from the north side making an important connection line with other north neighborhoods.