SwedCham China invites you to join Alibaba Group 'Taobao City' Company Tour in Hangzhou with Alibaba Cloud on the 15th of October.

About Alibaba Group "Taobao City" by KENGO KUMA

260,000 square meters Taobao City is the headquarters of Alibaba.com, now a leading IT corporation of China. Given the wetland location in the suburb of Hangzhou, we proposed a new type of office for this up-and-coming company by scattering low-rise buildings in layered floors, from which workers can be directly connected to their surrounding landscape.

The office block comprises two simple, flexibly arranged plates (approximate depth: 20m, length: 100m) in parallel, on either side of a green court yard. Such open, green atmosphere is rarely available in other typical city center offices.

The basic openings are glazing, but it has a detailed "bumpiness," since we treated the façade as a set of folds. One part of the folds (depth: 300mm) can be opened in order to bring in fresh air.

The six dispersed offices are loosely connected with bridge-like spaces called "links". Those links contain a sports hall, library, meeting spaces and other rooms, which can cater to workers' various activities away from their desks. The total length of these bridges covers over 1km. The façades of the links are woven aluminum mesh. It is a 2m-deep eave that can harmonize with surrounding nature – a contrast against solid, box-typed offices of the 20th century.

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Price

250 RMB for SwedCham Members

310 RMB for Non-Members

Date & Time

Friday, October 15th, 2021

08:30 - 16:00 Beijing Time

Agenda

08:30 - 09:00 Check-in & Get on board bus

09:00 - 10:00: Bus Riding

10:00 - 10:45 9 Stadium Visiting

11:00 - 13:00 Freely Roaming + Lunch Break (bring your lunch box or dine in the canteens)

13:00 - 14:00 Presentations by Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International

14:00 - 15:00 Mingle

15:00 - 16:00 Alibaba shopping mall visiting

Practical information

Please Note:

Trains/flights to Hangzhou, accommodation and transportation need to be arranged by the guests.

Lunch is not provided, please feel free to bring your own lunch box or dine in the canteens within the Alibaba Campus.

More details regarding the company tour such as meeting points for bus riding, addresses, health code details, etc will be sent to attendees in advance of the event.

Fapiao (VAT Invoice)

Apply fapiao when purchasing a ticket, by inputting the Chinese entity name and tax ID. Ask your IT to whitelist the domain "XX@hlzrkj.xyz​". E-Fapiao will be sent to your e-mail within 7 days after the completed event (check spam folder). If the fapiao can not be received, please provide an alternative email.

For inquiries related to fapiao, please email Jonatan@swedcham.cn