Industrial building turned into gallery by O-office Architects
17/03/2015.
[Shenzhen] China
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
Really interesting rehabilitation realized by O-office Architects in a former factory of packing which speaks indirectly, on the one hand, about the importance that receives the landscape in Shenzen's region (China) and on the other, about the sensibility that the architects needed at the moment of projecting the intervention.
Vista aérea. MAG Museum por O-office Architects. Fotografía © Chaos.Z.
Pool. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Access to the factory. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z.
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View in the ground floor. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
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Access. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Double height. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z.
Showroom. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Stairs of access. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
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Showroom. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Axonometric. MAG Museum por O-office Architects. Señala encima de la imagen para verla más grande.
During the works image. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Inside vision during the works. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Stairs of access. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Outside vision before the intervention. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Inside vision before the intervention. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Stair before the intervention. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z. Click above to see larger.
Ground floor plan. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Click above to see larger.
Second floor plan. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Click above to see larger.
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Axonometric. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Click above to see larger.
Outside vision. MAG Museum by O-office Architects. Photograph © Chaos.Z.
O-office Architects uses a old factory of packing to build a opened gallery to the landscape surrounding. The intervention was limited to a black steel box, raised, to take advantage of the skylight of the former factory liberating on this way the ground floor to connect it later with the environment. Several ramps connect the building with a suburban road.
Description of project by O-office Architects
Formerly the packing workshop of Honghua Dying Factory, MJH Gallery was conceptualized from (re-)structuring the spatial narratives of this vacant building. The new architectonics was independently implanted onto the original inner ground of the old workshop, which was regarded as a large open concrete pavilion, in order to build the new multi-layered spatial/time logic into the industrial relic.
The inner core space of the gallery, the main exhibition hall, is lifted up in a black steel box in the center of the old building, under its special double-roof skylight, which gives gentle diffused top-light to the exhibition space. The enclosed exhibition box connects to the ground floor via two semi-glass halls. Several free-standing functional blocks, on the one hand, support the elevated main hall, and on the other, define the ground space and functions that contain an entry show room, an auditorium, an art shop and related divide-able multifunctional spaces. The ground floor is open in all direction to the original ground of the factory, as well as to the surrounding natural landscape.
The main entrance of the gallery, with a half-open T-shape concrete box plugged-in, uses the original entrance on the south gable of the workshop, confronting a landscape pool that converted from the abandoned filtering basin of the factory. A sequence of landscaping walls, pedestrian and vehicle ramps cultivated from the topography were designed to link the gallery’s main entrance to the lower plaza that connects the suburban road. This landscape path from the plaza to the gallery detours between nature and artefacts, industrial and post-industrial landscape, through which, one could experience and memorize the whole time line of the site’s history.
Texto.- O-office Architects.
CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-
Architect.- O-office Architects.
Principal architect.- Jianxiang HE & Ying JIANG.
Design Team.- Jingyu DONG, Thomas ODORICO, xiaolin CHEN, Guixiong Feng.
Area.- 2,800 sqm.
Completed.- November 2014.
Location.- Kuipeng Road 106, Dapeng New District, Shenzhen, China.
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Jianxiang He and Ying Jiang O-office Architects
Jianxiang He and Ying Jiang established O-office in Guangzhu, in 2007, with their enthusiasm in architecture and motivation to explore new possibilities in Chinese context. All the partners share similar trans-cultural background by having experience both in architectural study in Europe and professional practice in China during the urbanization climax. O-ofice tests their methodology in architectural activities in different scales,and looks for unique and outstanding solutions for the clients.
Parallel to professional practice, O-office persists in exploiting architectural design as a critical instrument for research on our spatial and economic reality, and struggles for the balance of the two. In late 2012, O-office moved to the old Canton Beer Factory in Liwan near to the old Guangzhu downtown, and transformed the top floor of the silo building into their office and showcase. O-office is currently comprised of young talented design team of multidisciplinary backgrounds. Projects operated in the office cover from architecture, urban design, interior and landscape design even to exhibition and furniture design, etc.
