Zhujiajiao Administration Center Comprehensive Office Building
The Comprehensive Office Building is the main project of the building complex. Situated along the main road leading to the New Town area, it main goal is to satisfy the work requirments of the administrative workers. Its characteristic Jiangnan architectural form makes it also an emotionally accessible government center to the local workers. The project combined traditional gardens with modern architectural concepts; the plan is compact and orderly, it utilizes natural lighting, ventilation and makes complete use of the surrounding courtyard landscape. Austere materials such as bricks, concrete and patterned brick walls were adopted in construction. The use of brick modules to define the vertical walls gives a rhythm to the facades, and a spatial sobriety; the facade is extended to the roof, which together with the use of brick walls, leads to a culturally rich spatial design.
Initially designed to be a 12.3-meter high, two-story building, it’s actually 3-story when you include the total height of 12 meters. The body of the administration center is 16.8-meter high, which doesn’t destroy or overpower the existing architectural form.

The Curtain Wall of Zhujiajiao Administration Center
The curtain wall meets safety requirements and the following functional requirements: resistance to wind pressure and temperature distortion, penetration by rain and air, resistance to earthquakes, it has sound insulation ability and is both thunder and fireproof. The skeleton of this glass curtain wall uses a high-tensile steel frame skeleton of the 50 Series. The surface is applied with an antirust treatment to protect against oxidation, and the shell is painted with fluorocarbon lacquers. The curtain wall glasses uses the kind of glass in certain walls of hollow glass. Stainless steel materials is used for all the fasteners and juncture pieces that will be in exposed areas and under dank conditions. The glass curtain wall and the main body’s concrete structure are connected by components that have been buried in advance. Those components were buried while the main body structure concrete construction was under operation. The cementing material used in the curtain wall was neutral sealing glue. The wooden curtain wall also follows the construction procedure for the classical Chinese checkered windows. The wooden shutters in the curtain wall are situated by the light that leaks in through the windows.

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