Article source: GLA

Binary Sites and the Strategy of Appearing and Disappearing

The Inventronics Tonglu LED driver production base is located among the beautiful landscapes of Fuchun Mountains depicted in Huang Gongwang’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains. The land is adjacent to the No. 320 national highway linearly, and is approximately 4 kilometers away from the main urban area of Tonglu. The site was originally a suburban village and farmland, but in recent years, with the urbanization process, the interior and exterior of the site have presented two different looks – the neat and uniformed industrial park in development beyond the red line and the quite rustic and primitive fish ponds, tea mountains and other farming civilizations within the site form a sharp contrast.

The Phase I cluster of the project has been completed and put into operation, whose contour is relatively square, with flat ground, and surrounded by roads; the Phase II land in construction in the north side includes ponds, streams and tea mountains, where the environment is beautiful featuring comely landscapes. The binary site conditions necessitate the collision of large-scale industrial production logics and the organic natural environment, activating the design scheme of the unity of opposites of appearing and disappearing.

Image Courtesy © Yao Li

• Architects: GLA
• Project: Inventronics Tonglu Production Factory (Phase1)
• Location: Tonglu County, China
• Photography: Yao Li
• Software used: Autocad
• Lead Architects: Zhu Peidong
• Project Director: Zhu Peidong, Song Ping
• Scheme Design: Zhu Peidong, Chen Zhihang
• Engineering Design: Zhu Peidong, Song Ping, Yu Danyang, Chen Zhihang, Li Jianjun, Huang Guohua, Feng Jianhua, Sheng Jianping
• Site Area: 41298 square meters
• Building Area: 73888 square meters
• Time of Design: 2013
• Time of Completion: 2017

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