UIC Innovation Center, Kuntai Mansion

DUTS Design has recently completed the interior renovation design of Beijing Chaowai Kuntai Building. The building has been upgraded from a traditional business building to the Chaowai Street Industrial Innovation Demonstration Zone, becoming an "energy field" that activates innovation in all aspects.

DUTS design team started the innovation journey with the "Canopy Art Gallery" through horizontal penetration. DUTS design team placed a "canopy" in the first&second floor space of the building, defining a new "second three-dimensional curtain", which also became a visual hammer on the facade. Through projection and digital interactive presentation, the first-floor lobby can instantly transform into a concert hall, fashion show, multi-functional exhibition hall, etc., adding more humanistic and fashionable life experience to the office space.

DUTS design team created the UIC three-dimensional innovation canyon, which became a CO-LAB that inspires innovation. The design team used architectural deconstruction techniques to place a three-dimensional staircase across the 8th-12th floors, cleverly resolving the height difference between the main building and the podium, creating a multi-connected "three-dimensional innovation canyon". The "Innovation Valley" breaks the characteristic of traditional office buildings that are only horizontally connected, and becomes a "vertical community" and CO-LAB, which stimulates people's innovation and shows the emerging vitality of Chaowai Street's industrial innovation to the world.

In  Chaowai  area  of  Beijing,  the  exploration  for  innovation  is  kicking  off  at  the  UIC Innovation Center. The space experience that inspires creativity, the innovative practice leads the future and the vibrant contemporary urban lifestyle is being staged here.