Industrial Buildings in an Urban Context

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In Focus: Industrial and Commercial Buildings

Meinhard von Gerkan

Industry and commerce form the foundations of our civilizational prosperity. Even though the secondary sector is declining in proportion to the tertiary in many countries, its importance for economies worldwide remains fundamental. Nevertheless, we often consider industry and commerce to be just a necessary evil, merely required to satisfy life’s needs.

If one takes a look at the majority of urban industrial parks and the architectonic shells of industrial and commercial buildings, it would appear that our disre-

sult of undiscerning industrial and commercial architecture could be avoided with a comparatively small intellectual investment - as a look back at history, but also the many examples of the work of our architec-

Around one hundred years ago, when industrialization was still celebrated worldwide as social progress, and the substitution of human labor power by machines was regarded as a ground-breaking revolution,

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industrial buildings. The “NeuesBauen” (New Building)

even drew its theoretical premises from the process of industrialization – and the formal language of modernity was derived directly from industrial construction. Functionality and objectivity were now the new means of expression – in all areas of architecture and urban development.

The once revered modernity is now the subject of widespread rebuke. The critique of many quarters and buildings erected since the second half of the -

poverished design and profanity – especially in the case of industrial and commercial buildings. No other construction sector displays such soulless banality across such a broad front. There are many reasons for this: The unrestrained and uncoordinated consumption of land, especially on the periphery of the cities; the disordered arrangement of vastly different structures; and not least, the lack of any image-forming design ambitions on the part of many companies who merely pursue sheer size, garish colors, and brash advertising signs in their factories, with, at best, an architectural manifestation of “corporate identity” reserved for their administrative headquarters.

But how can one – once again – generate well designed industrial and commercial architecture? The

goals, which according to my assessment, can be summarized in four basic parameters: structural order, simplicity, a balance between unity and diversity, and distinctiveness.

Industry and commerce have a responsibility to integrate their buildings sensitively into the environment, to design their buildings respectfully, and not least, to create humane and well-designed workplaces. They owe it to society, but also to themselves, to

as well as their administration, service, warehouse, and logistics buildings, which do justice to their own standards and the social importance of the company. Architecture is the most elementary and durable expression of social culture. If industry and commerce are to avoid the accusation of social barbarism, they must revolutionize their attitude and approach to architecture.

Preface by Meinhard von Gerkan

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15 妘 跤䯖 gmp 雩悅㦳跤蹺鄽牨艊䏳㬫僨嗴䯖㛄㚧妛呺昻鑫‖侸艊婠 詀䎋茩䯖鞲旝誼。窩駡。＝嗴勢壽㬬跤宆嶗斶懪跤宆訵䗮蟨恖 㛄昻、謾跤䯖侸跣䎋茩狇倀俋㓇浧╙壈羮鰱艊婩僨䯖徏曧踵囑 棾呯瀕浧赹艊鰱嶼怇㬬瑪昦艊跣屟竑嬕、 梪霎慍婠詀貙矇鰓貙䯖敒嫚鑫斶跣雜鉢婠詀徏婩僨䎋茩䯖㳛砎 䄠㫼鑫 gmp 鮪諤跣䎋茩跤忞㳕羮艊墡趵婠詀嶗鲲趵婠詀艊㛄㚧 忲熴、霎跤㬕嫚艊俋㯵鰓䎋茩艊趵踽曧踮珜䇗筧䯖鹾䎋茩鰱砎 瀕鲋醢犦、䎋茩艊㬕嫚㫤鍊鹷鑫鮪跤蹺蹺廟嶗孭蹺恔扟艊讜貙 矇䎋茩䯖飨荁鲒ゔ擄嶗呝櫞、 慘鍎誖鞯 粓孭綕〃綾昤䯤 婠詀壎䯖墡蠿薐佖、1964妘羠鲋燆杚颣樰䯖魯 謚鲋昤蹕鎢竑嶗則丠啯叧雳婠詀䯖1997妘鎢駱gmp䯖2010妘彾 踵 gmp 鲇烏忞䎋茩諦．鳏䯖 2004 妘㡽麇醢犦 gmp 窩駡咇㠥㠩 鳏、鮪跤蹺蹺廟呝彾鑫㚾侸婠詀䎋茩䯖㠥㠩㛄㚧鑫醢犦趼昷鉢鑇

Magdalene Weiss

Spectacular urban development projects and highdensity inner-city commercial districts giving rise to dramatic new skylines—this is the public’s perception of urban planning and construction in China. In contrast, the development of industrial and commercial buildings appears, metaphorically speaking, to be a purely “peripheral phenomenon”, although its share in China’s overall construction volume is growing continuously. Due to their relatively low building density industrial areas and business parks have sig-

and landscapes are shaped by these structures, and hundreds of millions of people are confronted with them every day, either because they are their places of employment, or simply because they pass them during their daily commutes. Nevertheless, design usually takes a back seat when it comes to the construction of industrial buildings. They are simple shells used to house sophisticated, highly-specialized, and cost-intensive facilities. The primary concerns are ensuring functionality and optimal conditions for transport and infrastructure. However, there are other qualities such as open space planning oriented to the needs of the user and the environs, as

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in the overall design which constitute prerequisites -

more, architecture with a distinctive character offers a company, or an industrial or commercial park, the opportunity to formulate their own corporate identity. High-quality industrial and commercial construction is also an absolute necessity for China. Building land is in short supply and therefore increasingly expensive, which means that it must be planned and

conditions and optimal environments are essential if companies are to attract and retain the highly quali-

cesses. As the quality of products and corporate demand for identity-generating representation increase, so do the demands for high-quality industrial facilities and architecture.

These developments have generated a series of exceptionally valuable assignments for architects as well as urban and landscape planners. Since the 1970s, gmp - Gerkan, Marg and Partner – have met the ever-greater demands placed on industrial and business construction in their projects in Germa-

years, gmp has played a role in China’s rapid economic growth with the realization of numerous building projects, ranging from commissions for cultural,

centers and high-tech facilities such as data centers. In a number of instances, these projects included the development of large urban sites or the creation of a whole new character for previously faceless areas. This book brings together a number of individual buildings and developments according to their typology, highlighting the approaches to industrial and business construction that gmp has pursued in each project, the majority of which were commissioned by the Lingang Group and realized in Shanghai. The selection of projects is rounded off by similar commissions completed in China and Germany.

Associate partner at gmp since 2010; born in 1964 in -

since 2004; project architect of the Swissôtel Kurfürstendamm, Berlin; project management of Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Suzhou Industrial Park Sports Center, SOHO Beijing Residence, Poly Plaza Shanghai, Zhangjiang Science and Technology City, etc.

!粓孭綕〃綾昤 Perface by Magdalene Weiss

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Airbus A380 Interior Equipment Assembly Hall Hamburg, Germany

The EADS plant with the Airbus A380 production hangars is located on the Finkenwerder peninsula at the entry to the port of Hamburg. The interior equipment assembly hangar was built as part of the expansion of the Airbus plant in Hamburg and its design resulted from the November 2000 master plan advisory report

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hangars is oriented on the surrounding harbor landscape as well as being based on functional and economic premises. The hangars have been consciously kept low, with a bountiful use of glazing. The 120 meter wide, 350 meter long interior equipment assembly hangar is spanned by a steel structure with externally situated main supports. Inside it houses a sequence of four assembly stations, each 92.5 meters wide and more than 80 meters deep. To their south is situated a massive, low administration building, with the nose of an Airbus “breaking through” in four places. The 370 meter long northern façade is glazed and faces the

Elbe river and its slopes along its entire length. In the daytime the glass front provides natural light for the hangar; in the evening it lets the glare-free interior and exterior lighting of the hangar radiate, allowing a view of the aircrafts from the outside. The northern façade is divided by four so-called tail hoods on the roof of the hangar, which ensure the necessary clearance for

the steel external load-bearing structure comprised of ten meter high trussed girders extending over the entire length of the hangar. Eight transverse trussed girders with a construction height of nine meters rest on supports next to the nose hoods, cross the main support where they form a rigid connection, and project freely 36 meters above the northern façade.

Consultancy 2000 – 1st Prize Design Volkwin Marg with Marc Ziemons Partner Nikolaus Goetze Project manager Kai Ritzke Client Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg 44,000 m², 58,900 m² Construction period 2002–2005

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Huawei Research & Development Center Chengdu, China

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The Huawei Research and Development Center for software is embedded in a large, landscaped park directly adjacent to the scenic banks of the Qing Shuigle-story cafeterias are set around a central lake to

interlocking cubes, each with its own central, landscaped front lobby. The aluminum-clad façades of theor “sparkling iron dark” – contrast with the light, glass

distinguished by light-colored natural stone panels, providing discreet accents. The cafeterias, with light GRC façades enhanced by coated aluminum louvers around the windows, offer a variation on the interplay

Design Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Nicolas Pomränke, 2007 Project leader Bernd Gotthardt Chinese partner practice SIADR, Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design and Research Structural engineers schlaich bergermann und partner Client Chengdu Huawei Technologies Investment Co. Ltd. 284,000 m² Construction period 2010–2012

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Lingang Harbour Customs Building Lingang, China

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The Lingang Group maintains a large site with its own cargo pier located directly on the coast of Lingang New City’s industrial zone with wide roads connecting it to the nearby Lingang logistics zone. The entire southern section of the ca. 150,000 m² site is used to store technical equipment, vehicles, and shipping containers. A strip of land measuring 44 by 439 meters in the northern part of the property is reserved for the administrative and service buildings ensuring the effective -

clearance area was built on the northwestern edge of the site. Generous openings in the façade of the building’s base provide a view of the customs area, while the administrative section is separated from the base

by means of a horizontal seam. Modules composed of narrow metal lamellae with a depth of 70 cm arranged in a 1.4 meter grid cover the entire façade, generating

accent. The image of technical perfection and order is reinforced by the systematic and clear seam elements in the corners as well as in the upper and lower ends of the façades.

Direct commission 2009 Design Meinhard

Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze with

Weiss, 2009 Project leaders Yan Lvji, Zhou Yunkai Chinese partner practice Shanghai China Communications Water Transportation Design & Research Co., Ltd. Client Lingang Group Shanghai port information technology development Co. Ltd. 25,000 m² Construction period 2011–2013 (Phase 1)

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from the south of customs clearance area in the base of the building

double page: Customs clearance area in the base of the building with generous openings in the façade

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