DALI system IFC guangzhou

Guangzhou International Finance Center (IFC) 441 meters

Guangzhou International Finance Center, also known as Guangzhou West Tower, is located in the southwest of Zhujiang New Town. It is adjacent to Zhujiang Avenue in the east, Huaxia Road in the west, Huajiu Road in the south, Huacheng Avenue in the north, and is on the central axis of the new city center. The West Tower is close to the Municipal Children's Palace, library, opera house, museum, Haixinsha, etc. There are many five-star hotels and high-end office buildings around.

Vteck participated in the lighting control design of IFC in the whole process. Through Vteck's DALI system, the brightness control, color temperature adjustment, scene control of different floors, plus transparent glass to create a beautiful crystal sparkling effect

The total land area of the project is 31,084.96 square meters, the total height of the tower is 434 meters (excluding the height of the helicopter platform), with a total of 103 floors and a total construction area of about 450,000 square meters. The West Tower project has complex functions and basically covers general commercial functions. The main components are:

1-66 floors: Super Grade A office building with a floor height of 4.5 meters, with a total area of 167,000 square meters

Floors 69-100: Platinum five-star Four Seasons Hotel, with a total of about 325 rooms. The sky lobby on the 70th floor is 30 stories high, and through the faceting of the balustrades on each floor, a wonderful diamond effect is created, glittering under the sunlight penetrating the roof glass.

The West Tower is located in the core business district of Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou, on the west side of the central axis greening. Its standard floor plan adopts the triangular plane form, which ensures that users can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Pearl River and the central axis greening area to the greatest extent. The design of the twin towers seems to be two columnar glass crystals. In order to highlight the twinning of the east and west twin towers, they are arranged on both sides of the central green space of the Pearl River New Town Square in an approximately symmetrical form, continuing the new urban axis of Guangzhou.

For the 434-meter-high Guangzhou West Tower, the architect's goal was to make it a building of elegant volume, a slender and slender building that contrasts sharply with the volumes of its annexed podium and surrounding buildings. The tower building is designed with a unique curvilinear shape and a transparent and smooth building façade as the main idea, and reveals the unique architectural structure of the building itself.

Architectural beauty - The facade of the building is a full-height, all-glass transparent design, without the "traditional" curved metal gusset design. Another key visual feature of the building is its exterior glass façade, the vertical division of which blurs the horizontal effect of the horizontal floors. On the southeast side of the podium, a textured glass curtain wall is used to enhance the horizontal artistic effect, breaking the regular façade composition of the podium, like a ribbon surrounding the podium, in sharp contrast with the upright vertical composition of the main building.

Structural Beauty - The outer structure is carefully matched to provide a clearly visible flowing geometric pattern. The scale and geometry of the 27-meter-long oblique grid structure support system will play a leading role in the expression of this building space, and will create a strong visual contrast with the floor division and curtain wall system. The structural units will be gradually reduced in size with the height of the tower, and combined with the perspective effect, the building will become the visual focal point after completion. When the sun is shining, the extension design of the structural unit at the tower end makes the lower end observers feel the visual effect of the building "disappearing" to the top.

Lighting beauty - the lighting design of the tower at night is also an important aspect of the building's position in the urban outline of Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town. The building will be illuminated by a LED lighting system inside the space, and will generate a random pattern that outlines the tower's silhouette against the Guangzhou night sky. The entire slanted grid bracing system is outlined by the lights at the junction of the slanted columns and the floor slabs. This will create a vivid and special night scene, showing the height and geometry of the building.