The TP-LINK LXD project redefines circulation as habitable ground. A one-kilometer continuous landscape lifts the ground plane and wraps it around three buildings, transforming movement into shared social and ecological space. Within a dense urban site, where open space is typically lost, the project restores it as elevated, continuous, and accessible from every level.
Two office towers and a dormitory building have side core configurations, enabling the placement of the exterior ribbon stairs without affecting the light and views from the office space while also allowing access to the exterior from the elevator lobbies. Each office floor is connected, opening directly to the ribbon. The workplace is organized around visibility, access and encounter. The result is not two separate office towers but a single campus-like connected environment.
The ascent unfolds as a sequence rather than a corridor. Spaces expand and compress, alternating between active and quiet, social, and solitary. The ribbon thickens to host meeting terraces, dining areas, and recreation, including full and half basketball courts, then narrows to moments of climbing and pause, framing light, air, and long views of Shenzhen and the city’s terrain. Movement becomes part of daily life for the building’s occupants.
Bridging between volumes, the ribbon links communities while forming shaded outdoor rooms and inhabited voids. Architecture, landscape, structure, and circulation operate as one system.
High-performance façades with operable windows enable natural ventilation and reinforce a direct relationship between inside and out—environmental performance aligned with spatial experience.
Inspired by Shenzhen’s culture of rapid innovation and collective energy, the project proposes a new model for TP-LINK’s workplace – one where health, collaboration, and landscape environment are not amenities, but the organizing principles of the building itself.
