LAB OF THE YEAR

AWARD WINNER 2018

CJ BLOSSOM PARK

Photographer: Tim Griffith

LAB OF THE YEAR AWARD WALDNER WAS THE NUMBER ONE CHOICE
The CJ Corporation is one of South Therefore CJ wanted to create a This openness and the enormous cabinets, and equipped with an The New Scientific Workplace is highly
Korea’s largest companies. To bundle dynamic workplace that breaks flexibility even extend to the electric services distribution system can adaptable, inspirational, extremely
its laboratory tasks, particularly in the down the walls between disciplines, laboratories, thus making the be put together in any combination. efficient, comfortable and healthy by
research and development fields of blurs the boundaries between building a “vivid research centre“ Each workbench has 6 to 8 sockets a fully-integrated sustainable design
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and discovery and commercialisation, – a requirement specified by CJ. As and connections and a 6 m long approach.
food products, the group decided to bridges geographies, and ultimately, the corporation needed to provide cable, which means that it can be
build a new complex of buildings in transforms its approach to science. good quality for its researchers‘ main placed within a radius of 6 m next to
the city of Suwon, 48 km south of workplace, the laboratory, WALDNER one of the ca. 400 service columns.
AWARD WINNING
Seoul – the CJ Blossom Park. The was the number one choice because The service columns in turn are fed
The building project was implemented
objective was to lay out nothing short of its reputation. Besides, there are from the ceiling and also provide
by the US based architectural services
of a world-class scientific discovery only a few companies in the industry the necessary power and IT sockets.
provider CannonDesign – and already
center reflecting the company’s “Only that could provide flexibility and Furthermore a third of these columns
won the Best of Asia Pacific Design
One” spirit and its desire to be the quality for such a scope of services. also supply other services to the
Award of the International Interior
“first, best and different” in all aspects workplace, e.g. with extraction spigots
Design Association. Its organic shapes More than 2,000 flexible laboratory
of business. And this meant to create or synthetic gases. Owing to the
and lots of natural light, as well as the workbenches, following a grid size
an inspiring working environment in stringent modularity of the work-
almost 50 different types of spaces of 1.5 m, partly with top-mounted
which communication is fostered – benches instruments may be encased
that respond to different types of
not only for their own staff but also even in a standardised way to avoid
human behaviors – from cafes and
in order to successfully attract new, sounds and influences caused by heat.
coffee shops to lounges, fitness areas,
qualified employees in a competitive
sleeping pods and even an interior
labour market.
living forest.
 PROJECT INFORMATION
NAME
CJ Blossom Park

LOCATION
Suwon, South Korea

OWNER
CJ Corporation

TOTAL GROSS SIZE

11,148 m2

SUBMITTER, DESIGN ARCHITECT, LABORATORY PLANNING,

LIGHTING DESIGN, ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS, INTERIOR DESIGN,
MEP ENGINEERING
CannonDesign Mehrdad Yazdani, Principal

EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT
Heerim Architects & Planners

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
ARUP

CIVIL ENGINEER
Duksung Alpha Civil Eng & Consulting

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Photographer: Christopher Barrett PARKKIM
Design Architect: CannonDesign
CONTRACTOR/CM
CJ E&C

ACOUSTICAL
Shaped like petals – taken its
Korea Soltech Co
inspiration from the South Korean
CJ Group’s logo – the three towers WIND AND/OR OTHER CONSULTANTS: CFD MODELING
of CJ Blossom Park soar into the RWDI
sky. Researchers from food,
pharmaceutical and biotech industries LAB FUME CUPBOARDS MANUFACTURER
shall each be housed in one of Waldner
the three towers to push new LAB FURNITURE MANUFACTURER
developments ahead. Waldner

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