This is a materialization of our attitude towards promoting sustainable green laboratory into an architecture. We wanted to apply structural steels and exterior walls of existing factory as much as possible.
However, when you try to detach a cladding called ALC, which is commonly used in building factories, heavy machines are used. Therefore, most of them get damaged, thus making it very difficult to reuse them.
Nevertheless, we have succeeded to keep about 30% of ALC by demolishing the building cautiously. We put those ALC back to the exterior was randomly and in the gaps and openings, we installed new ALC and windows to let the fresh air and light in. As a result, the exterior wall functions like a filter and the sun light shines from the unevenly positioned windows into a factory’s large opened area, which reduces lighting load in daytime. This creates rhythm and give a liveliness to a factory’s peculiar homogeneous environment.