Moling 9 Workshop
TR ARCHITECTS
Moling 9 Workshop, transformed from
Niu Shou Industrial Park that was built
in the 1990s, is located in Jiangning
District, Nanjing City.
After this transformation, it becomes a
Creative Park of Culture and Science with
“Internet +” as its core and with a total of
nearly 40,000 square meters. The base is
rectangular in the east-west direction, and
the short side at the western end is the only
part that interfaces with external roads.
With regard to the shape of the base and
the order of its development, the western
end of the block serves as a start-up area,
consisting of two U-shaped buildings and
temporary houses scattered on the street.
Designers persuaded its proprietor to
abandon the initial blueprint of constructing
the park’s identity through large-scale
renovation of the facades of the two factory
buildings along the street. Instead, they
suggested to set up an open transitional
zone between the closed park and the city
where the park and the city can interact
with each other through rearranging the
venue between the factory buildings and the
outside world with the transformation of the
space instead of facade renovation, in order
to change the previous senses of alienation
and unpleasantness of the most Industrial
Park to the city, and thus create identity of 9
workshop identity.
In the process of site arrangement, the
temporary houses along the street will be
demolished while retaining the little houses
with a relatively complete and brick-concrete
structure in the northwest corner. And
based on the dimensions of these houses,
we would plant in the vacated ground 4
“industrial huts” made up of steel frames,
weathering steel, steel mesh, glass and steel
scaffolding.
The “industrial community” consisting of
five huts replaced the construction of fences
and gates, representing the openness of
the park. The space inside these huts make
things easy during rush hour for a large
number of pedestrians are completely
separated from the traffic when entering and
leaving the park. Because of the materials
applied for the new huts will not only block
the view of the park from the outside but
will create an overlap of sight with the old
factory, creating a mixing effect of old and
new buildings.
We hope that the five huts in this open
space will serve as a catalyst space with
uncertain functions in the early stage where
we envision people in and out of the park
can wait, meet up and chat pleasantly
leaning against the edge of scaffolding, and
even bask in the sun and read books. In the
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