Alibaba Gao Qiao Carbon Zero

The Alibaba Carbon Zero project is a composite industrial zone renovated based on the ESG environmental protection concept. Following the idea of promoting carbon neutrality and low carbon consumption, this project takes building low-carbon architecture and free spaces as the design theme, aiming to rejuvenate the waste industrial zone and seek balance among human, space, social responsibility, and innovative freedom, thus giving the architecture fresh life.

This project makes full use of the materials and structure of the original buildings to reduce the renovation costs. Without dismantling the original buildings, this project connects two main industrial workshops with a transparent roof, forming a shared neighborhood space between them. Moreover, photovoltaic (PV) panels are paved on the rooftop to power the PV system, which helps balance the electricity supply and demand and enables heat preservation of the whole building.

This project incorporates waste containers into the interior design to form a layered meeting room, enhancing the vertical space utilization and visual appeal. Besides, these containers can be stacked as an interior sky corridor to bridge the inner sections, working as a three-dimensional recyclable passage on the second floor. This project overcame the drawbacks of traditional flat and widely open industrial workshops by utilizing an integrated meeting room design, with sectional and layered partitions in the large open office area, thereby creating more flexible and diversified spaces, which conforms to the popular agile working mode.

This project follows the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) environmental protection concept throughout its design process, aided by the energy-saving lighting system, natural lighting system, intelligent devices, and other low-carbon technologies, transforming the waste industrial zone into a new carbon zero industrial zone, which contributes to the global sustainable development goal.