Located in Nanhu Science Center, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, the team will build an intelligent R&D industry park integrating "office + experimental research and development" as the office area with interactivity, experience and ecology for Alibaba DAMO Academy. Driven by human vision, Alibaba DAMO Academy is a research institute dedicated to exploring the unknown of science and technology. Since its establishment, it has been exploring many industries, such as quantum computing, and has been conducting cutting-edge science and technology research. 

Matrix Design helps form a compound headquarters of DAMO Academy of unique oriental features by combining the charm of ancient architecture with practical functions. In the efficient, flexible, ecological and scenic multi-form architectures, the space fits human and nature, and thus stimulates extraordinary, inspiring enlightenment and creativity. Entering the lobby through the visitors center, "five senses" concept can be felt. When visitors step into the lobby through the visitors center, visitors can suddenly get the core of company culture of exploring the unknown by seeing the "shadows swaying" made be falsified multimedia, hearing the rustle of leaves accompanied by white noise, feeling the natural breeze simulated by ventilation system, smelling fragrance of grass and trees and cultivating the experience immune to the secular world created by the former four senses. 

For the atrium of visitors center, Matrix Design redesigns the original scissors stairs, whose major structure is similar to Mobius ring invented by German mathematician Mobius. The stairs are like a flowing line which starts from the first floor to the third floor. It not only has the basic functions, but also rich the layers of the architectural management area, making the space full of fun and symbolizing the endless scientific exploration. 

In the main office area, the team takes flexible and incremental as the core of design logic. The open office area is designed with low saturation of concrete and wood to preserve a large area of open space. Soft isolation between different groups can be realized by functional rooms (negotiation room, telephone room, group exclusive meeting room). Through the in-depth study of the grid-layout strong and weak electricity on the ground and the modules of independent office and meeting, the team not only gives a variety of possible changes in the form and perspective among modules in the final layout, but also realize the function exchange between open office area and meeting area in the case of increasing staff. 

The design allows around 15% increasing office cubicles without giving up any functions, laying a solid foundation for later development and benign operation.