IFF Convention Center
IFF Convention Center
TJAD
CLIENTS
Guangzhou Nansha New Area Pearl Bay Development Authority
MANUFACTURERS
法拉利 Serge Ferrari
OPERATION ARCHITECTS
Zengyuan Gao
ARCHITECTURE TEAM
Haibin Zhang, Heng Liu, Ke Li, Fangzhen Li, Yunni Gan, Liqiang Lu, Hua Huang, Xingjian Liu, Mingcan Wang, Luyang Zhang, Kuo Zhang, Jiachuan Wang, Weiwei Yang, Haoran Cheng, Fan Xie
STRUCTURE TEAM
Jiemin Ding, Liang Zhu, Zheng Zhang, Bing Liu, Wei Jin, Chengwan Wu, Rui Cheng, Weijia Huang, Zhuoju Huang, Zhipeng Hao, Jiamin Tang, Guangliang Hu, Wangyan Zhu, Rui Ren, Luqiao Gao, Yi Lu
FOUNDATION PIT TEAM
Wenhui Jiang, Zhun Zhang, Jiaxing Liu
ACOUSTICS
Haisheng Liu, Chaofeng Tian, Weiming Gao
HVAC TEAM
Xiangyu Sun, Zhuohuan Qin, Yu Wang, Jin Zhou, Bihua Qian, Jun Hu, Guojie Ma, Qiaoyun Jiang, Hubiao Wu, Ping Zhang, Tianxiao Zhao, Xu Zhang
ELECTRICAL TEAM
Peng Dai, Ying Zhang, Haijun Song, Lin Xia, Bo Zhou, Yan Luo, Houzhe Li, Sheng Wang, Biao Tang, Yongxin Yang, Yin Tang, Sichao Li, Xinhao Zhang, Menglong Cai
INTERIOR TEAM
Bin Chen, Wenwen Xu, Tongtong Shang, Yanming Wu, Keke Gao, Haojun Mo
FACADE TEAM
Lijun Tian, Haiqiang Ouyang, Weimin Zhong, Weibin Zhu, Lei Zhang, Jinjian Wu
LANDSCAPE TEAM
Qiang He, Xianting Fan, Hong Xiao, Lijuan Li, Dan Li, Ziwei Zhang, Lisha Deng, Shilong Qi, Lixu Jiang
FLOOD LIGHTING TEAM
Xiu Yang, Xinghua Gu, Yang Wu, Chen Bian, Yu Liu, Wenjing Ge
GREEN BUILDING & SPONGE CITY TEAM
Zheng Wang, Chengyu Tang, Guohui Ren, Fanghui Xue, Chenyu Li, Huanhuan Zhu, Dongmei Li, Cuiwen Zhu, Xian Zhang, Guo Wu
BIM TEAM
Huanrui Zhang, Zhihua Ding, Yiran Jing, Jin Deng, Shuhan Yang, Tongzhou Chen, Xinlu Luan, Wei Dai, Yi Shi, Ze Yang, Huilin Tan, Yue Shi, Lijun Tang, Xiaoyun Wu, Yufeng Li, Qi Han
TECHNICAL LEAD
Tengfei Su
COST ESTIMATION
Xiaohong Weng, Liyi Li, Jingjing Gu, Jing Xu, Yujin Su
EPC CONSORTIUM
China Gezhouba Group Construction Engineering
STRUCTURES
Liang Zhu
MEP
Xiangyu Sun
CONCEPT DESIGN
Beijing Institute Of Architectural Design，aaupc
PHOTOGRAPHS
Zy Architecture Photography, Heng Liu
AREA
257197 M²
YEAR
2023
LOCATION
Guangzhou, China
CATEGORY
Public Architecture
The newly completed Nansha permanent venue of the International Financial Forum (IFF) is located at the tip of Hengli Island in the Pearl Bay, Nansha, Guangzhou, with a total construction area of about 260,000 square meters.
On October 27th-29th,2023, the IFF 20th Anniversary & Annual Meeting was successfully held at the IFF Convention Center, blooming like a dazzling "kapok" under the night sky.
01. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
The IFF permanent venue consists of the IFF Convention Center, the IFF Convention Center Hotel, and supporting service buildings that cater to diverse needs such as conferences, banquets, performances, receptions, accommodation, and other services. Responding to the need for future development, the project has reserved exhibition spaces and media centers with top-tier equipment to meet the requirements of global and governmental conferences.
There are two large halls on the second floor, the Meeting Hall and the Banquet Hall, which cover an area of 3000 square meters and can accommodate up to 3000 people.
On the fourth floor, there are another two 1800 square meter halls, the Council Hall and the Multi-functional Hall, which can accommodate activities of the highest standard at the national level.
More than 40 small and medium-sized conference rooms are distributed on the second to fourth floors, which can be combined and separated as needed to meet the needs of different parallel forums.
Multiple advanced technologies and materials were utilized in the project throughout the design and construction process.
With full-process digital visualization design and dynamic monitoring of the structure, the three-dimensional model was developed to achieve accurate spatial positioning of steel structures and building envelope systems.
The small digital model of the IFF Convention Center carries over 14,000 tons of steel, over 40,000 square meters of metal facade materials, about 7,000 square meters of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), and nearly 20,000 square meters of PTFE.
02. CHINESE AESTHETIC
The design inherits the magnificent architectural image of traditional Chinese architecture, and integrates the organic form of kapok, giving new vitality to traditional forms with modern architectural language.
The main entrance is located at the center. From there, the building wings extends horizontally like flowers blooming on the sea, as well as the roc spreading its feathers, which, with the undulating roof, creates an atmosphere of grandeur and solemnity.
A series of traditional Chinese architectural elements are abstractly represented in the architecture, such as the flying cornices and the bucket arches. The proportion and beauty of Chinese architecture have been inherited in a modern manner.
03. LINGNAN CHARM
The design is inspired by traditional Lingnan architecture. The IFF Convention Center creates elevated semi-outdoor spaces on both sides, which borrows from local Lingnan arcades and continues the regional context.
In order to adapt to the local climate, the IFF Convention Center adopts the traditional Lingnan architectural layout, applying "Cooling Allies" to the internal space. Ship-shaped halls between the volumes bring in skylights and fresh air.
The curtain below the glass roof is made of PTFE, which filters the sunlight gently and softens it. The four-storey high cable-net glass curtain wall connects to the daylighting ceiling, framing the picturesque scenery into the building.
With such a transparent experience, visitors inside the building are connected to the sky, the earth, the city, and the sea. The details also present the characteristic features of Lingnan.
With delicate and unique decorative details, it retains the charm of traditional Lingnan space in a modern way. Located at the geometrical center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the IFF Convention Center will continuously welcome guests from all over the world.
