Light & Span Manufacturing Facility, Building in Mariveles, The Philippines Architecture, Building, Images
Light & Span Manufacturing Facility in Mariveles
Handbag Factory in Bataan, Philippines ? design by 1:1
28 Sep 2017
Light & Span Manufacturing Facility
Architects: 1:1
Location: Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines
Light & Span Manufacturing Facility

1:1 was brought in to design a new factory building that would enable a handbag manufacturer to expand capacity on his current site in Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines. The new building measures roughly 90 x 75 meters in plan, for a total footprint of approximately 6,750 square meters,adjacent to existing manufacturing facilities on the same plot.

The existing buildings are basically giant sheds with gently pitched roofs, with natural light entering only from small openings on the periphery walls. Given the design, even the presence of fluorescent lighting closer to the factory floor could not alleviate a relatively dark production space, not to mention the energy costs maintaining such artificial lighting.
Clearly, a fundamental design question was how to introduce natural light to the main production space without changing the foundational structures, given that the contractor had already started work on these, before 1:1 joined the project. Given the constraints, we basically had to solve the core lighting problem with adjustments to the roof.
Taking the engineer’s double- pitch roof design as the s...