Jockey Club Innovation Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects

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  • Design: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
  • Project Director: Woody K.T. Yao
  • Project Leader: Simon K.M. Yu
  • Project Team: Hinki Kong, Jinqi Huang, Bianca Cheung, Charles Kwan, Juan Liu, Junkai Jian, Zhenjiang Guo, Uli Blum, Long Jiang, Yang Jingwen, Bessie Tam, Koren Sin, Xu Hui, Tian Zhong
  • Competition Team: Hinki Kwong, Melodie Leung, Long Jiang, Zhenjiang Guo, Yang Jingwen, Miron Mutyaba, Pavlos Xanthopoulus, Margarita Yordanova Valova
  • Local Architect: AGC Design, AD+RG
  • General Contractor: Shui On Construction Com- pany Ltd
  • Geotechnical Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
  • Structure Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
  • Mep Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
  • Façade Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
  • City: Hong Kong
  • Country: Hong Kong (SAR)
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Text description provided by the architects. The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.

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The 15-storey, 15,000 sq. m. tower accommodates more than 1,800 students and staff, with facilities for design education and innovation that include: design studios, labs and workshops, exhibition areas, multi-functional classrooms, lecture theatre and communal lounge.

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus has developed its urban fabric over the last 50 years with the university’s many faculties housed in visually coherent, yet very different buildings. The JCIT creates a new urban space that enriches the diversity of university life and expresses the dynamism of an institution looking to the future.

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Located on a narrow, irregular site at the northeastern tip of the university campus (bordered by the university’s football ground to the south, and the Chatham Road/ Kowloon Corridor motorway interchange to the north), the JCIT is connected to the heart of the campus; encouraging the university’s various faculties and schools to develop multidisciplinary initiatives and engagement with the community, government, industry, NGO’s and academia.

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The JCIT design dissolves the typical typology of the tower/podium into a more fluid composition. Interior and exterior courtyards create informal spaces to meet and interact, complementing the large exhibition forums, studios, theatre and recreational facilities. 

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The tower’s design promotes a multidisciplinary environment by connecting the variety of programs within the School of Design; establishing a collective research culture where many contributions and innovations can feed off each other.

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Students, staff and visitors move through 15 levels of studios, workshops, labs, exhibition and event areas within the school. Interior glazing and voids bring transparency and connectivity, while circulation routes and communal spaces have been arranged to encourage interaction between the many learning clusters and design disciplines.

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With its contribution of HK$249 million towards the construction of JCIT, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust also funds the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.

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Address:Hong Kong (SAR), Hung Hom, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jockey Club Innovation Tower 賽馬會創新樓

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Cite: "Jockey Club Innovation Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects" 12 May 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/505374/jockey-club-innovation-tower-zaha-hadid-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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