Chinese digital health start-up iCarbonX wanted the design of its new headquarters complex to reflect the organisation's pursuit of cutting-edge medical science platforms that connect intelligence. The organisation is taking steps into the unchartered territory of mapping and digitising human health, with an ambitious research team focussed on future possibilities. Situated in the contemporary metropolis of Shenzhen in southeast China, iCarbonX's new space needed to embody the intricacies and innovation of a business centred on the potential that genome investigation and capture offers.