Zhangjiang Pharmaceutical Campus

Supporting the world’s best pharmaceutical companies in meeting global health challenges means creating workplaces that promote cutting-edge research, development, and operations.

Our winning proposal for the Shanghai Zhangjiang Group, a prominent leader in China’s pharmaceutical industry, is a single campus-style workplace that unites a new science community – a place that’s much greater than just the sum of its buildings. Scientists, students, and professionals from a broad range of fields can now come together more easily to share ideas, engage in cross-institutional activities, and make advances in the pursuit of knowledge and biotech medicine for the benefit of people everywhere.

The design scheme is built for flexibility, allowing for single-floor tenants and whole-of-building tenants, with the option of conjoined buildings for even larger organisations. 

Individual floors can also be subdivided into smaller labs, start-ups, and co-working spaces, ensuring a diverse range of work settings. This adaptability ensures the campus can readily evolve alongside the changing needs of its global researchers.

Client

Shanghai Zhangjiang Group Co., Ltd.

Location

Shanghai, China

Status

In progress

Year

2024

Scale

Gross floor area 248,000 sqm / Site area 53,000 sqm

Design team

Martin Lee, Klevis Koco, Mark Roehrs, Richard Mullane, Yi Liu, Sean Lin, Ricky Suen, Guomin Lin, Jina Kim, Juan Zou, Nancy Wang, Yichao Wu, Xu Zhang

Photography

Dirk Weiblen

A central canopy at the heart of the campus encourages the growth of an organic, dynamic campus community. The canopy’s open learning environments, auditoria, conference facilities, retail stores, gym, cafes, bars and restaurants support all kinds of connections – from sharing ideas and research thinking to a few post-brainstorm drinks or meal at the end of a day. 

Science communities often require highly secure environments, so our scheme includes mechanisms such as controlled entry into a gated community, controlled entry into buildings, and on-floor card entry into all labs and research areas.

To support smaller organisations and start-ups, our design provides flexible access to shared core facilities, including advanced research platforms and costly instrumentation typically beyond their means. Offering this equipment on a fee for service’ basis creates an additional revenue stream for the client, while simultaneously democratising innovative research tools for the next generation of scientists.