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later stage, because of the business needs,
the huts along the street can be transformed
into florist, coffee shop, bookstore and so
on with commercial functions, so that the
park will be provided with more diversified
functions and greater urbanity.
In the transformation of the two U-shaped
factory buildings, on the basis of retaining
the style of the original buildings, the inter-
building space will be added the space
of intercalated office taking advantage
of building height, while the central open
space of each U-shaped building was
transformed into a green-filled courtyard.
The new truss and glass roof, covering part
of the courtyard, creates an ambiguous
zone between the indoor and the outdoor.
The zone is expected to extend the human
activities as far as possible to the courtyard
in addition to connecting the two sides of
buildings.
Two U-shaped factory buildings will be
transformed along the interface of the
park central road. We have chosen the
way that could erase the most traces of
transformation. In this interface, we added
another layer of structure, which does not
only create external space for placing the
outside machine of refrigeration equipment
but also highlights the entrance to the
building. At the same time, the bridging
piece applies for inclined plate design at the
bottom, reducing the light distraction indoor.
This layer of additional structures, come in
tune with the original style of the factory
buildings, entering finely into the integration
of the original building as much as possible.
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