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The Timber Hat Building / rundzwei Architekten

June 20, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Company headquarters and operating facility in timber construction – In an ordinary industrial park south of Stuttgart, rundzwei Architekten BDA have designed an unusual headquarters and operating facility in timber construction. The translucent, all-round canopy made of carbonized larch wood – the eponymous “wooden hat” – protects against the weather and gives the building its characteristic shape. “When a long-established family business builds anew, things don’t always have to stay the same.” (Architect Marc Dufour-Feronce) Hald & Grunewald specializes in the sale and rental of forklifts, telescopic handlers, work platforms, and container solutions. Training, maintenance, and repairs are also part of the offer. Around 90 employees work at the new main location in Ergenzingen, between Schönbuch, the northern Black Forest, and the Swabian Alb. The aim of the project was to bundle all the company’s functions in one location. At the beginning of the project, the architects analyzed and optimized the existing workflows together with the employees. The aim was to “rethink” the long-established family business, to question old structures, and to create a contemporary commercial building with optimal workflows and quality of space for all user groups.

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Domaine Kurodasho Winery / TOFU Inc.

June 19, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

Domaine is a French word meaning territory or compartment particularly in the historic Burgundy region, world-renowned for its fine wineries, and refers to producers who grow, harvest, ferment, and bottle the wine produced in their own vineyards. In contrast, in Japanese saké production, there has historically been a division of labor between “rice cultivation” and “rice brewing.” It is said that this is due to the development of the class system during the Edo period in which Japanese society was divided into four main groups: the samurai, the farmers and peasants, the artisans, and the merchants. Subsequently, to achieve the goal of creating a product that truly exudes the “terroir” and “vintage” of the Domaine, we inaugurated the construction of rice brewing facilities in 2018, a development that accorded us the means with which to use the rice grown on our own adjacent rice paddies to produce saké. 

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Domaine Kurodasho Winery / TOFU Inc.

June 19, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

Domaine is a French word meaning territory or compartment particularly in the historic Burgundy region, world-renowned for its fine wineries, and refers to producers who grow, harvest, ferment, and bottle the wine produced in their own vineyards. In contrast, in Japanese saké production, there has historically been a division of labor between “rice cultivation” and “rice brewing.” It is said that this is due to the development of the class system during the Edo period in which Japanese society was divided into four main groups: the samurai, the farmers and peasants, the artisans, and the merchants. Subsequently, to achieve the goal of creating a product that truly exudes the “terroir” and “vintage” of the Domaine, we inaugurated the construction of rice brewing facilities in 2018, a development that accorded us the means with which to use the rice grown on our own adjacent rice paddies to produce saké. 

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Awaji Factory / OHArchitecture

June 9, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

“Proliferation and Pleats” – An agitator manufacturing company that systematically relocated its head office and factory to Awajishima in anticipation of the next 300 years. Three years later, it was decided to increase the number of assembly plants to meet an unexpected order for large equipment.

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National Heavy Vehicle Engineering Technology Research Center / CCDI GROUP 21 Design Studio

May 20, 2023 Collin Chen 0

The project’s context – The National Heavy Vehicle Engineering and Technology Research Center is located in the center of Jinan High-tech Zone, adjacent to Hanyu Golden Valley in the north, and close to Shunao Park, with convenient transportation and a good landscape. The project covers an area of 22861 square meters, with a total building area of 145516.21 square meters, a tower curtain wall height of 96m, and a structural roof height of 89.85 meters.

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Green Field of Karupannya Rangpur Factory / Nakshabid Architects

May 9, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

Greenfield Factory of Karupannya Rangpur Limited sets a dimension to the working environment in this context which leads the workers to visit the factory on their weekends for recreation. Conventionally industries are a kind of space where we can’t think of any other quality than working but this factory unit is designed in a different vision. The whole compound as well as the workplaces designed to make the workers feel homeliness. Workers around the compound always feel always so relieved due to its design nature. The design idea was to create a kind workspace that is so close to the earth and also integrate the climatic resources at the utmost level into the whole compound.

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Walnut Factory / ARC Arquitectos

March 3, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The Nogam Walnut Factory is located at Herdade das Atafonas, in the Municipality of Évora, and has around 11000 sqm. An attempt was made to implement the walnut processing unit in order to respond not only to legal constraints but also to programmatic and geographic constraints. Starting from a triangular reference shape given by one of the legal conditions, it was decided to follow this shape and distribute the program around a central courtyard.