Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas by T.E and C Architects Associates

Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas by T.E and C Architects Associates is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Arquitectura, Edificación e Estruturas Competition Category.

BronceArquitectura· 2021

Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas

by T.E and C Architects Associates

Client: T.E and C Architects Associates

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas

Horas na Ladeira é un complexo de fábrica e oficinas en Taichung, Taiwán. O terreo divídese en tres edificios dispostos en resposta ao ambiente e á orientación. No lado oeste, onde a exposición solar é alta, as fiestras escuras e a redución das superficies acristaladas acentúan a sensación de volume. O granito e un sistema de revestimento verde para edificios cobren os muros exteriores. Escolleuse un mosaico de pedra natural para a superficie curva do edificio de oficinas. Un sistema de tubaxes soterradas guía o aire fresco exterior cara á planta, e os paneis solares na cuberta dan sombra á zona de aparcadoiro do último andar.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Hours on the Slope Fábrica, Edificio de Oficinas satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The entire area is mainly divided into three buildings, while the design takes into consideration the relationship between the environment and the direction, adopting dark windows while reducing window area in ordered arrangement on the west side with excessive sun exposure to highlight the sense of volume.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project is 63767 square meter.
Tags: Architecture, Factory, Office, Plant, Building
Production Technology: The factory plant with the largest area has adopted the coating system with the Green Building Mark, which contains no formaldehyde, TVOC volatile organic compounds, and hazardous substances; moreover, it is a coating system featuring low-carbon-footprint, no excessive external wall decorative wastes…etc. Due to the characteristics of the coating system such as gapless and low water absorption, etc., it can clean itself when the rain pours, making it easy to maintain.
Design Challenge: This project has also set up a rainwater recycling pool, collecting roof water for watering potted plants, it further set up an eco-pool in the alfresco retracted 20m of greenbelt, establishing water recirculation system to proceed with the conditioning of the microclimate inside the base.
Research: A large area of approximately 12,250 m2 of solar energy layout is placed on top of the roof, where besides conducting solar energy power generation, it can also act as a heat insulator for the parking lot on the top floor. The design also placed the air-conditioned factory plant underneath the parking lot, capable of completely blocking off the roof heat transmission caused by the large roof, thereby decreasing the air-conditioning energy consumption.
Inspiration: The main materials for the external wall include granite and green building coating system. To create the rock solid spirit of the enterprise and the fusion with the environment, the office building selected natural stone for the mosaic on the curved surface.
Project Duration: The project finished in December 2018 in Taichung, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The main factory plant section is air-conditioned with the special arrangement of buried pipeline wind-guiding system, which guides in the external air at a lower temperature from the inlet/outlet on the north side together with potted plant section via the particular height difference of this base, which then cools the temperature down via the deep soil 10m underground, thereby accessing outdoor fresh air for air-conditioner cooling and exchange through the most natural cooling approach.
Team Members: Design Director: Wen Tong Hsieh
Designer: Kang Cheng Liu
Yung Chi Huang
Sheng Xiang Lin
Cheng-Tsung Chen
Ming-Hsing Su
Pei-Yu Lin
Yu-Chien Huang
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer Pei Yu Lin, Hours on the Slope, 2019.