The factories today are typically emotionless and mono-functional in an industrial zone. The stigma of industrial architecture has long been planted into the mind-set of urban dwellers which
creates a separated and dubious typology in the urban settlement. Ironically, the architecture of factory or industrial have also been the forthright reflection of societal condition and technological advancement of a place.
For instance, factories used to be part of the daily life in an urban setting where people are free to explore the spatial and production systems during the era of industrialization. Then things begin to shift as globalization comes into the picture with new free trade zones, digital supply chain and shipping networking which changed then dynamic characteristic of a city.
Today, the industrial zones are often seen as somewhere different and which the public cannot or would not enter in their daily routine. Architecturally, a factory gate is still considered as the entrance to another world by the public. The enclosure of such typical factory architecture has created a sense on introvert and barrier as well as having stigma of the negative side of a factory and chained in the statement of factory must not exist in the urban environment.
2019
2019
Project is proposed on an empty lot in Johor City Center, Malaysia.
Project Typology : Factory (Industrial)
Project NFA : 13,830.21 sqm
Project GFA : 29,855.26 sqm
Project Floors : Basement Carpark (Oasis), Lower Ground Floor - Groundscraper, 3 Floors above.
Wilson Tan Xern Ee (individual)
Paradox : Reimagining Factory in the City by Wilson Tan Xern Ee in Malaysia won the WA Award Cycle 31. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.
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