West Mountain Innovation Valley | Beijing Collaborative Innovation Park is a large-scale office complex nestled at the foot of Beijing’s Western Hills. The project covers approximately 12 hectares with a total floor area of around 288,000 square meters. Liu Haowei and his team CAA architects have been responsible for the project’s master planning and architectural design since 2020. Located adjacent to Beijing’s historic Three Hills and Five Gardens and positioned within the northern expansion zone of Zhongguancun in Beijing, the project has been recognized as one of Beijing’s 100 Key Science and Technology Innovation Projects.
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North·Yard – Beijing Collaborative Innovation Park
Mixed-Use Architecture (Built)
Firm
CAA architects
Architect/Designer
Liu Haowei
Design Team
Lead Architect: Liu Haowei / Technical Director: Leo Dy. Aojima / Project Management: Zhang Pan, Rachel Luo / Architectural Consulting Expert: Wang Dongchun / Structural Consulting Expert: Wang Changxing / Design Team (Competition Phase): Zhao Xingyun, Edward Ednilao, Ye Wenjie, Joseph Kahaya, Vicky Chen, Charles Jiang, Xiao Peng, Su Lide, Luo Yuhang, Shen Ao / Design Team (Design Phase): Ye Wenjie, Will Shi, Miriam Llorente, Li Shuyao, Zhu Ying, Yan Jianxin, Deng Haibo, Yang Jing, Liu Hongliang, Li Jinze, Cassie Cai, Leo Yu, Liu Yutong, Zhao Qian, Lü Jing, Guo Yupeng, Mugabe Leon Paradis, Lin Xinyao, Somoll Chantheany
Location
Haidian, Beijing
Country
China
Photographer/Copyright
©CAA architects
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Website
https://www.caaarch.com/projects-details.html?id=133
Rooted in Liu Haowei’s concept of Oriental Futurism, CAA uses Shanshui Valley (valley of mountains and waters) as a design axis, assigning distinct identities to the three plots: West·Mountain, North·Yard, and East·Creek.
North·Yard, the largest plot and the first phase of Beijing Collaborative Innovation Park, covering a total construction area of approximately 111,000 sqm. CAA combines traditional courtyard layouts with natural landscape imagery, balancing the concept of enclosed courtyard and the overlapping mountain ranges. This culminates in the design concept of the ‘Mountain Courtyard.’
Mountain-shaped towers rise from the ground, while the surrounding podium forms a cloud-like ring around them—light, dynamic, and fluid. Together, they create a courtyard-inspired horizontal spatial interface. The architectural cluster engages in a dialogue with the Western Hills. Based on the harmonious concept of oriental philosophy, it integrates traditional imagery with futuristic technology and creates a vision of oriental romanticism with mountains, river valleys, and courtyards.
Walking through North·Yard, rivers flow beneath the mountains, clouds encircle their peaks, and above the clouds lies a verdant wonderland. — Liu Haowei
The towers’ terraced setbacks, elevated podiums and roof gardens, ground-level aerial bridges, and fluid staircases in the sunken courtyard leading directly to the underground parking collectively form a multi-dimensional pedestrian system with fluid spatiality and rich layering. This design achieves pedestrian-vehicle separation while generating numerous unexpected in-between spaces, integrating seamlessly with the natural environment both inside and beyond the site, from above ground to below.
Interwoven multi-level natural landscapes create a vertical city garden in North·Yard, achieving an actual greening rate of 40%. It maintains an ongoing dialogue with the natural and cultural landscapes of the Western Hills and Fragrant Hills. From the mid-slope, Central Park and the site’s internal landscape merge seamlessly, resembling water flowing through rocks and generating ripples layer by layer. This dynamic oriental spirit surrounds the mountain-shaped towers.
CAA has established a comprehensive green sustainability system for North·Yard, which incorporates a series of sustainable strategies and technologies, including natural ventilation, utilization of the chimney effect, mitigation of the heat island effect, noise control, rainwater collection, and water-soil conservation. Together, these measures enable the project certificated by China Green Building Council (CGBC) with the highest three-star qualification.
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