Mandela Work Space, Shanghai Office Building Development, Chinese Interior Images
Mandela Work Space in Shanghai
Office Interior Development, Architecture in China ? design by RoarcRenew
30 Oct 2018
Mandela Work Space
Architects: RoarcRenew
Location: No.23c Lane 833, Zhi Zao Ju Rd., Huang Pu District, Shanghai, China
Mandela Work Space
The building in Mandela project has a brick-concrete structured warehouse and was renovated in the 1980s.

In 2014, it was again renovated and reinforced with additional steel structures. The original concrete walls and its patched texture have been well preserved and covered with clear glass, which created an effect of two textures collage. The staircase, as the media for emotional and functional interactions, becomes the most important element in this whole space.
The inner space of Mandela?s four-story warehouse is 40 meters long, 29 meters wide.

One fire escape on the east side, one on the west side and together with one west-end lift, forming the vertical traffic flow. With the Shanghai solar altitude angle calculated, RoarcRenew concluded the direct sunshine can neither reach the north nor south area within 7.5- meters towards the center axis and the average daily sunlight received in this area is less than 0.1 hour. Considering these two factors, we inserted a vertical light shaft with the diameter of 3.6 meters all the way down from the fourth floor to the ground floor, which lights up the area that the sunshine could not reac...