Client
Lingang Science & Technology City
via Urban Art Projects
Sector
Corporate / Civic
Location
Shanghai
Year
2020
Evolve
The site outside the Headquarters of Lingang Science & Technology City has a strong tension between the oval water feature and a round opening leading up to the upper levels of the building. The site was asking for a form that conveys that strong uplifting tension.
The dynamic form is based on a strange attractor that has a fascinating threefold symmetry, discovered by Norwegian mathematician/ engineer Svein Halvorsen in the 1970’s.
Its topology is similar to a Moebius ribbon with three half-twists, where the edge curve is similar to a single torus knot.
