‘G6 twist’ is a twin-building located near Beijing East 5th ring road. The building will contain mostly service apartments. These apartments can accommodate start-up companies, which makes that the building blends between apartment and office building.

The design-strategy follows three steps: projecting a typical EW orientated Beijing slab, rotating and finally twisting the slab in order to optimize daylight and view. The twisted slab is taken as a starting point to manipulate the buildings massing proportions, following the analogy that people prefer to live in a tower over living in a slab. Towards the new city street, the building will follow a smaller scale to enclose a square. Towards the South side of the site, the buildings will take on a more urban scale. To increase the diversity of the apartments, floors are proposed with three different window-heights.