Light Industrial Building, 034712

This project is a modular high-tech manufacturing research-and-development (R&D) and manufacturing facility for an electric car company. The basis of the design is a single large space that suits both small scale R&D tasks and through to the through to the simulated assembly of a single vehicle. Spaces are arranged over two floors with a with a passive cooling environment on the ground floor which ensures that the use of energy is minimised as a result of 50% of tasks being conducted immediately outside the large doors which enclose each space. Office spaces and service spaces are slotted in from the top, in an n-shape, and are able to be relocated along the length of the building. The building itself varies in height with three stacked modules, where the service spaces at roof level can slide on rails to allow lifting equipment and technical equipment to be moved along the length of the assembly hall.