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Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory Renovation
By : Hongshi Design
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 17th edition
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Commercial Building / Mixed-Use Building : Platinum Winner
Located in China’s capital, the Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory was founded in 1958 and is the birthplace (development site) of China’s first artificial Earth satellite, Dong Fang Hong 1, which was launched in 1970. At present, two of its buildings have been included in the national industrial heritage list. Due to the inability of the factory area to meet modern technological research and manufacturing needs, the Hongshi team undertook the site’s architectural and landscape restoration.
The project was divided into two parts: restoration and augmentation. The restoration work mainly involved revitalizing the aging buildings to their former era’s appearance. This includes cleaning the paint-covered brick walls and reinforcing the structure while preserving its original texture. Augmentation involved maintaining the building’s framework and adding new modern elements as needed to accommodate the functional requirements of a modern industrial park. Additionally, the factory’s unique features were utilized in a passive design to support energy-efficient solutions.
The factory area is formed by two main axes running from east to west and north to south. The intersection of these axes in a T-shape forms a plaza, where the paving is engraved with the names and dates of 55 satellites launched by China. Moreover, the evaluation of 180 trees within the park allowed for architectural canopies, landscape steel stairs, and trees to coexist harmoniously, thus preserving approximately 85% of the original trees on-site.
At the east end of Satellite Road, it is an exhibition hall using a finished container, displaying two historical and honored manufacturing equipment of Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory, providing visitors and users of the park a three-dimensional and intuitive cultural connection to the theme of Chinese aerospace manufacturing history.
After the project’s transformation, the site now serves as both a business and industrial park and an urban park, which showcases an open and historically rich heritage that the public can once again enjoy.
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