Architectural competition-Factory in the Forest-winning entry for an electronics manufacturing plant. This site is conceived as a forest that penetrates, surrounds & steps over the building creating maximum contact with nature ? green, breeze, scent, sound, touch. A canopy supported by a ?forest? of columns creates unity in the office & courtyard while giving protection from the tropical sun. Office levels give access to roof gardens and staff is encouraged out for breaks, meetings, or just contemplation.
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A green courtyard separates the office & factory with views and access from both. A bridge over the courtyard links the office & production & this circulation route becomes a space for meetings, breaks & lectures. The factory has views to the landscape & the sky condition through full-height & clerestory glazing with glazing protected from the sun by free-standing off-form concrete fins and roof louvers. Rainwater cascades from roof spouts – heightening awareness to tropical storms, to storage tanks for landscape irrigation. © Lin Ho Photography
The plant receives natural diffused light across the entire factory floor reducing dependency on artificial lighting that, combined with chilled water floor slab cooling & cutting-edge air-conditioning technology reduces energy consumption to half that of a conventional plant of similar size.
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Structure & materials are expressed; off-form rein...