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Project Commissioner
Auto State Industrial Co., Ltd.
Project Creator
Project Overview
This architectural project is a factory where the client researches, develops, and manufactures motorcycle-related parts. Since most motorcycle parts are metal-processed products, the design team chose metal as the primary material for the grille. The gradient grille configuration on the facade of the building, combined with the different angles of daylight and viewing, gives it a changing effect of light and shadow, reflecting the sense of speed generated by the motorcycle driving process. Amazingly, the design team has created a neat, refined architectural style that embodies the product’s image.
Team
Hsieh Wen Tong, Liu Kang Cheng, Huang Yung Chi, Chen Cheng Tsung, Pai Jui Liang
Project Brief
The front side of the building is equipped with a silver metal grille, creating a visual effect with sharpness and technology and using a sometimes sparse and sometimes dense configuration to create a light texture, forming the product’s image. The designer also uses concrete as the primary building material, and its thick texture reveals a rock-solid corporate image.
Project Innovation/Need
Through the careful planning of the design team, the mechanical parametric design effectively calculates each grille's angle and size ratio. It demonstrates the building-related fire regulations to create a mobile and rotating grille design. The design team took great care to revise and develop the formwork plan for this project so that the design could be accurately expressed.
Design Challenge
For this project, the design team uses metal and raw concrete materials. Using simple materials and unique structural techniques not only cleverly transforms the product imagery into the design of the building façade but also provides a different visual experience of the building façade from different angles, which can be considered unique. The front facade of the building is arranged with gradual grilles to embody the image of wind. The two side elevations and the back elevation of the building are presented in an orderly manner, not only to emphasize the orderliness of the facade but also to imply the owner's demand for the quality and precision of the products.
Sustainability
Since the building faces north and south, the design team used this direction to create windows on the front façade and small windows on the south and west sides of the building to allow natural light to enter the interior and reduce the heat of direct sunlight. Therefore, it reduces the use of electric lights and air conditioning and achieves the idea of energy saving and carbon reduction. Furthermore, installing a solar roof reduces the energy consumption of air-conditioning in the office below the roof and realizes the goal of sustainable development and environmental protection. And the configuration of the east side of the plant with automatic storage, in order to resist the heat from the east side of the sun. Most importantly, LED energy-saving lighting is used throughout the plant, and water-saving equipment is installed to achieve ecological friendliness.
Architecture - Commercial - International
This award celebrates the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow.
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