#SKETCH FASHION FACTORY DRIVER#

Each unit has its own HVAC system further isolating individuals within their interior workspaces, while connecting people through the generous and shared outdoor courtyard space.Fast fashion is the business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail stores quickly while demand is at its highest.

This utilization of the outdoor space as primary collective circulation creates a healthier and safer workspace. Also, the units are given unique and individual access, providing the opportunity to not only present one’s company logo and graphics on the respective façade, but further preventing interior intermingling of visitors and users on the site in response to the recent pandemics of COVID. The private office and studio space are adaptable to user groups of varying sizes and functions, with large height spaces the areas are able to be split into two or three stories, as well as maintaining strong inspiring double height areas within a single space. The interior spaces were realigned and transformed to orient their primary entries to the central outdoor courtyard space. The interior spaces of the Beijing Fashion-Factory offer a variety of options for private workspace as well as reprogrammable public facilities. Project location : Beijing, Chaoyang District, Changying Area

Santoso, Christopher Beckett, Annie Liu, Arthur Yang, Ao Li, Xue Han Lead Architects: Martin Miller, Mo Zheng, and Yasser Hafizs Particular care was taken to ensure that, while small interior groups may form within offices and studios, HVAC systems are exclusive to those spaces, preventing cross-contamination between companies.Īrchitects: AntiStatics Architecture (Beijing+ New York) With the spacious courtyards presenting shared space for collective gathering in the age of social distancing, the elimination of any interior collective spaces reduces the potential spread of viral contagions between offices and studios. Additionally, the interior renovations of the existing buildings took into account the historic impact of pandemics like COVID, orienting each unit’s interior to a private individual entry space. Taking advantage of the existing industrial infrastructure, many of the remnant artifacts on site were used within the generous outdoor courtyard spaces creating collective gathering through recycling and reuse. Theoretically, these processes tie back to the early conceptualization of architecture by theorist Gottfried Semper, who traced the etymology of the word wall back to its origins of textile and fabric, where divisions of spaces were not defined simply by brick and stone, and contemporarily concrete, glass and steel, but rather encompassed the draping of fabric as enclosure and later the application of textiles and patterns in the form of tapestries, incorporating both thermal performance as well as aesthetic and ornamental features. The design utilizes and borrows several techniques from the fashion designer’s palette, including draping, stitching, printing and weaving.

#SKETCH FASHION FACTORY DRIVER#

The interwoven nature of fabric is leveraged as a design driver defining the various interior and exterior spaces, their connectivity and separation. Inspired by the textiles and patterns of the fashion industry, the Beijing Fashion-Factory rejuvenates a former industrial site into a diverse collective of creative work spaces.

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