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No. 33 Xiaoyun Road Project is located at the junction of Xiaoyun Road and Dongfang East Road in Chaoyang District, Beijing, close to the Third Embassy Area, near the airport Expressway and Sanyuan Bridge in the East Third Ring Road, which is a prime location in the Yansha Business District. The project aims to build a benchmark 5A commercial office building in the hot areas of first-tier cities.
The project is located in the area of office buildings, rich business atmosphere, surrounded by high-end apartments, ordinary residences, and a variety of restaurants along the street, full of life, full of fireworks, is a rare complex block in Beijing.
The design scheme places two towers at each end of the L-shaped site, with the 86-meter-high Tower 1 adjacent to the busy Xiaoyun Road, filling the gap in the street interface while enhancing the image of the area with an iconic architectural appearance. The 100-meter-high Building 2 faces the relatively quiet Dongfang East Road, overlooking the embassy District and Yansha business District. The two buildings are connected by a sunken plaza in the middle, which is open to the public, both as a green landscape for viewing and as an outdoor overflow space for underground businesses.
Building 1 has made a double lobby design, among which the first floor entrance lobby is 9 meters high, the external wall is a hidden frame all glass curtain wall, the vision is open and transparent, the indoor and outdoor space is integrated; In addition, the sky lobby is set up in the top four floors, and the pointed arch three-dimensional steel structure is designed like a Gothic church. It supports the transparent curved glass curtain wall, breaking the visual feeling of horizontal and vertical interior space. While introducing sufficient natural light outside, it also increases the interest of the space, empowering the place and enabling people to feel the charm of the space.
Building 2 features a nearly cube-shaped podium with a two-storey lobby containing a conference hall and small and medium-sized shared meeting rooms. Restaurants and commercial facilities are also located on the first to third floors of the tower. The podium and the tower are connected by a high interior garden, and the two sides of the facade and the roof are enclosed by large-scale glass. The sloping natural light combines with the interior landscape, giving the office workers a moment of comfort and pleasure.
People can also easily reach the staff canteen and the shopping street on the ground floor through the escalator in the lobby on the ground floor, or go to and from the sunken square and street level through the large steps.
The design idea of seeking change in unity is the basic starting point of creating the project's own characteristics. This concept is also continued in the construction of space volume and detail treatment, bringing more vitality and fun to the project itself. In the facade design of the building, the unit glass curtain wall system is selected, and the unified partition module and rich facade details all show the simple modern style of the building and the implicit and restrained artistic connotation.

Agency:VAAS

VAAS is a large design firm with a mission to achieve ultimate quality in architecture, providing clients with highly reliable and integrated professional services. At the beginning of the new millennium, the core team of the company initiated operations. With the thriving development of the Chinese real estate industry, after more than two decades of effort, the company has evolved from a small team of around ten individuals to a comprehensive design organization with a strong workforce, including 150 employees, 23 registered architects, and 12 senior engineers. In early 2022, the company successfully obtained the Class A design qualification in the field of architecture (construction engineering) and adopted a new company name: VAAS ( VAAS Architects Co., Ltd. ), marking the commencement of a new phase in the company's development.
VAAS is committed to achieving ultimate quality in architecture, offering clients highly reliable and integrated professional services. From the outset in the domestic architecture industry, the company has grounded itself in the market's fundamentals. With an international design perspective and a people-centric professional ethos, Elephant VAAS has remained focused on the principle of "creating greater value for clients through design."
The company has gathered professionals from various fields, forming a comprehensive professional system that covers urban design, architectural creation, engineering design, and management consulting. Throughout the design and construction process, the team seamlessly integrates across different disciplines, providing comprehensive design solutions for projects. With a steady and methodical development approach, the company has gradually become one of the most powerful and influential private architectural design firms in the industry.
VAAS has consistently adhered to a design philosophy characterized by originality, quality orientation, and humanistic care. The firm maintains a working approach centered around partners and, supported by a robust operational platform, seamlessly connects the three major systems of project management, design leadership, and technical responsibility. Through in-depth quality control throughout every phase of each project, the company has, over the years, grown into a provider of high-end design services with a strong and distinctive brand appeal, thanks to its dedicated focus on domain expertise and professional service.
In the continuous process of exploration and creation, VAAS consistently seeks the integration of the architectural entity with its environment. The firm emphasizes the permeation and interaction between architecture and its surroundings, aiming to evoke emotional resonance through poetic experiential spaces. Simultaneously, the company values the diversity and distinctiveness of regional cultures, using them as a starting point to trace the cultural essence of the locality. This approach allows them to achieve expressions that transcend eras and styles, realizing the architectural integrity across the dimension of time. This encapsulates the overarching direction of the company's design practice over the years.