高雄科學園區廠房入口大廳更新

Challenging Functional Conventions: Redesigning a Building Entrance within a Taiwanese Science Park.

Taiwanese industrial parks are in the headlines of newspapers worldwide due to the technological and productive advancement achieved during the last decade. Although their architecture has been for quite some time divided between the extremes of construction efficiency and some sort of corporate hi-tech imagery, recent sociocultural trends are bringing the chance for a reconciliation between the sobriety of the local culture and the need for representative spaces that improve the quality of both the private and public space.

This project precisely ventures into this new trend, bringing novel monumentality to a laboratory building entrance through the adoption of prefabricated construction elements, the suggestion of architectural archetypes, and an infrastructural generosity of space that allows for the accommodation of a car drop-off directly at the raised entrance level.