Facade with Innovation

Shanshui City and Star Bund Center can be considered as representative projects of RFR Shanghai recently Both provide creative solutions for complex high-rise building facade.

Shanshui City building is located along Chaoyang Park, Beijing designed by architect Ma Yansong, RFR Shanghai help to develop the asymmetrical twin towers with a height of 143 meters constituting the unique lakeside skyline. Vertical lines of facades are just like ridges and valleys eroded in nature, helping the building to combine the future with the traditional Chinese landscape artistic conception.

Technically, the hyperboloid freeform curtain walls are both the most significant feature and difficult part of the project. Among the two free-form curved towers of this project, hyperboloids with the radius of principal curvature less than 12 meters account for 54% of the total curtain wall area, up to 10,000 square meters, which is a challenge to the "limit" of the glass curtain wall system. To overcome these difficulties, 3 developments were implemented: hyperboloid optimization, complex three-dimensional curtain wall system design, and production implementation, and quality control.

The second project, the Star Bund Center building is located on the North Bund of Shanghai. It is the highest super high-rise twin-tower project in Shanghai at present, constituted by 2 towers with a height of 263 meters designed by architect Cesar Pelli. The critical points of the design are its innovative inverted unitized facade system, which is taking advantage of the decorative fins on the outside, and using them as structural members of the facade but it also provides clean and compact interior look. This project receives LEED Gold certification and China green building design 3-star.