중관촌 디지털 경제혁신 산업기지, 오래된 공장에서 별이 빛나는 신비로운 정원으로의 변화한 리노베이션 작업

Zhongguancun Digital Economy Innovation Industry Base, A Transformation From An Old Factory To A New Garden

중관촌의 핵심지역에 위치한 쉐칭루역은 중국 칭화대학교와 베이징대학교가 2km 이내에 자리한다. 이 지역의 낡은 공장들이 대부분 철거되거나 새 단장되고 있는 현황에서 베이징 기계전기기술연구소는 소수의 생존 건물 중 하나였다.

설계를 맡은 QUCESS DESIGN은 오래된 공장에서 새로운 정원으로의 전환이라는 개념으로 디지털경제혁신산업기지로 공간을 디자인했다. 클라이언트의 관심사는 주로 인테리어 리노베이션이었지만 디자인팀은 프로젝트 외부의 환경에 집중했다. 외부 영역은 지붕과 원래 지반 아래의 구조적 공간을 의미한다. 무엇보다 리노베이션을 진행하는 과정에서 전체적인 건물을 원형으로 4개 영역으로 구분하고 주변 환경과 혼합하는 디자인을 선보였다.

디자이너는 직원들이 퇴근 후 창밖을 바라보며 자연과 햇볕을 느끼며 휴식할 수 있는 정원을 만들고자 했다. 아트리움의 넓게 확장된 채광창을 통해 자연광이 부드럽게 유입된다. 해질녘, 조명이 아직 따뜻할 때 채광창은 푸른 별이 빛나는 하늘을 반사한다. 기존 공장 건물의 독특한 자취를 공간 이용자들이 느낄 수 있도록 구건물의 채광창 일부를 아트리움의 후반부에 그대로 유지했다.

아트리움의 상하부를 연결하는 2개의 서로 다른 나선형 계단은 사람들의 흐름을 분산시키고 조직화하여 공간 분위기를 활성화하는 역할을 맡는다. 아트리움 끝에는 내부에서 화물용 엘리베이터를 감싸고 있는 유리블록에 빛이 비추어 사람들을 그곳에 머물게 만든다. 나선형 계단 근처에는 구조용 철골 프레임과 어우러진 매끈한 관광용 엘리베이터 2세트가 계단을 메우고 있다. 예술적인 나선형 계단은 산업화된 관광용 엘리베이터와 대조되어 전체 공간을 활력을 불어넣기에 충분하다. 오후 햇살이 내부 공간을 비추면 옛 것과 새 것이 절묘하게 만나 매혹적인 빛과 그림자를 발산했다.

주차 수요를 최대한 충족시키기 위해 원래 지반을 파고 반 지하 차고 공간을 수용하게 했다. 낮게 가라앉은 아트리움 정원은 차고까지 확장되어 색다른 주차 경험을 제공한다. 공간의 활용률을 극대화하기 위해 조성된 지붕은 건물 전체의 거의 모든 전자 기계 장비를 지지한다. 디자이너는 원래 건물의 경사 지붕에 여가와 모임을 위해 서로 다른 스타일과 기능을 가진 두 개의 옥상 정원을 설계했다. 옥상 정원은 태양열 자발광 좌석과 나뭇잎과 깃털 형태의 예술 설치물로 조성되었다. 공간 사용자는 물론 주변 건물과 사용자를 위해 정원과 별이 빛나는 하늘을 만들기 위한 디자인으로 공간 전체에 윤기를 불어 넣는다.

이렇듯 중관촌 디지털 경제혁신 산업기지는 기존 건물의 구조적 조건을 최대한 활용하는 동시에 오래된 공장 건물의 재건축에서 건물과 구조의 안전을 보장하며 리노베이션의 효과적인 저비용 건설을 충실히 공간에 실천하고 있다. ANN

Li Yiming Chief designer of QUCESS DESIGN

Design team_ Li Jianchuan, Wang Lei, Wang Xueli, Zhao Zhiwei, Mu Yu, Zhang Zhihao

자료_ QUCESS DESIGN/ Photo by Zheng Yan

Design company: QUCESS DESIGN

Chief designer: Li Yiming

Design team: Li Jianchuan, Wang Lei, Wang Xueli, Zhao Zhiwei, Mu Yu, Zhang Zhihao

Deepening design team: Ji Shichao, Li Liang, Xu Yu, Zhang Jianpeng

Furnishing team: Hu Kun, Li Tingting, Luo Yun

Structural consultant: China Academy of Building Research Co., Ltd.

Project area: 21,565 square meters

Main materials: terrazzo, glass brick, woven steel mesh

Photography: Zheng Yan

Branding Team: Li Yuhan, LELE Brand Strategy Agency

There are difficult voyages and the same stars everywhere. But this garden is outside my window.

Located in the core area of Zhongguancun, the Xueqing Road Station is within a two-kilometer's way to Tsinghua University and Peking University. As a gathering place for Internet companies, most of the old factories remaining from the industrial era have been demolished and renewed. While Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology (BRIMET) is one of the few survivors.

It is a challenge to meet the needs of the emerging Internet and science-and-technology enterprises. They require a maximized working area with good ventilation, a lighting environment, and a high-quality, active space atmosphere

Although the client’s concern was mainly interior renovation, the design team focused on the surroundings outside the project. Combining the entrance location, a circle was used to divide the entire factory building into four parts, blending it into the surrounding environment.

Under the disadvantages of the limited budget, extensive structure, and high-tech requirements, it was a crucial question that how to use the existing conditions to maximize the office area and to ensure that the building maintained a good ventilation and lighting environment as well as high quality, active space atmosphere.

Outside of the project, it refers to the surrounding environment of the factory, as well as the roof and the structural space below the original ground. Combined with the location of the building entrance, the entire factory building was divided into four parts with a circular shape, making it integrated into the surrounding environment. On the premise of safety, the space height and roof were utilized to the best.

"We hope that every office area is surrounded by a garden so that the staff can enjoy a moment of relaxation when they look out the window after work. Of course, they can also walk into the garden and enjoy the sun and nature."

Once entering the space, a large area of the skylight had been expanded and transformed to guide the direction by the light brought in. The skylight extended to connect with the atrium so that the atrium garden was saturated in natural light.

At nightfall, when the lights were still warm, the skylight reflected the blue starry sky. Part of the skylight of the old building was retained in the second half of the atrium so that the space users could feel the unique traces of the original factory building.

To balance the long east-west scale of the project, two spiral staircases of different shapes were designed in the atrium to disperse and organize the flow of people, playing a role in activating the space atmosphere.

At the end of the atrium, the light illuminated the glass bricks wrapping the freight elevator from the inside, making people linger there.

Near the spiral staircase, two sets of open sightseeing elevators echoed the stairs, and the structural steel frame was painted with bright colors to form the visual focus of the atrium, forming the core of the traffic. The artistic spiral staircase contrasted against the industrialized sightseeing elevator, making the whole space full of vitality, adding a sense of fun to the journey of upstairs and downstairs.

In the afternoon sun, when the old and new parts met, it exuded fascinating light and shadow.

To meet the parking demand to the greatest extent, the original ground was dug to the foundation of the pillars which served as a semi-underground garage. The sunken atrium garden extended to the garage, bringing a different parking experience.

To maximize the utilization rate, the roof supported almost all the electron-mechanical equipment of the entire building. Therefore, the designer had designed two roof gardens with different styles and functions for leisure and gathering on the inclined roof of the original building.

The garden center was designed with solar self-luminous seats and art installations in the form of leaves and feathers. When strolling at night, the thoughts of the Internet worker wandered at any time.

The design intended to create a garden and a starry sky for the space users as well as the surrounding buildings and users.

"In the reconstruction of the old factory building, ensuring the safety of the building and structure is always the core of the project. While how to make the most of the existing building and structural conditions is the key to low-cost construction of the project. "

Thanks to China Academy of Building Research Co., Ltd. for providing a lot of key support and assistance in this project. For QUCESS DESIGN, it was a very challenging renovation project in all aspects. Fortunately, with the full support of the owner and the full cooperation of the construction firm, the project finally came into being.

About QUCESS Design Founded in Beijing in The 2002，QUCESS design has been commissioned by clients of various backgrounds for design in industrial park planning and consulting, building and interior integration transformation, office, and apartment space design and soft outfit design. Due to the influence of multicultural exchange in Beijing, QUCESS has been committed to building a team with different cultural backgrounds that transmit its values and philosophy: Design creates new value. In the meantime, QUCESS design has also won many prestigious design awards around the world including FX Awards International Interior Design Awards, German Design Award, A' Design Award, and Competition, German iconic awards, APIDA as well as many top awards in China such as China Architecture Design award, CIID Institute Design Award, the Golden Bund Award, etc.