The Qingdao Open Hand project is the 1st winner of invited competition in China and JDS's mega-project  creates a huge public spage within the context,which is also under construction.

The Qingdao Open Hand project is a project that addresses urban issues and boils them down to the scale of a building. The project is split in 2 phases, together gathering 5 individual buildings joined into a common public space. Like 5 ‘fingers’ joined by the palm of a hand. The first phase, currently under construction, is a commercial and office entity of 180,000m2 and makes up for the 2 first and most representative ‘fingers’ of the development. The ‘palm’ of the hand is a large and open public space spreading on all the roofs to allow views to the sea.

The Qingdao Open Hand project's porous facade creates a different sculptural view thanks to its lighting effects which make the structure very light and excentric,vivid,spectacular from outside.

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Project Facts

Project:Office Building

Size:183.000 m2

Location:Qingdao, China

Creative Authorship:Julien De Smedt

Client:Baosteel

Team:MUDI

Project Leader:Andrew Griffin, Vincent Macris

Type:Invited Competition

Status:1st Prize, Under Construction 2014

Project Team:Borna Pavicic, Camille Fatier, Edgar Jesé Rodríguez, Edna Lueddecke, Francisco Villeda, Henning Stuben, Jakub Poplawksi, Julia Park, Kazuya Uchida, Nicolai Palsbo, Pawel Panfiluk, Sara Pereira

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