Mix Architecture-Renovation of Nanjing Combat Machinery Factory
Nanjing Combat Machinery Factory is located on the west side of Hongshan in the north of the city and is nearby the Nanjing Railway Station. The factory was built in the 1950s. With the expansion of the city and industrial development, the production department moved out, which leads to the idling of the original factory. Around 2006, people tried to renew the factory, hoping to reopen it as the creative industrial center. However, for some reason, the building failed to attract people’s attention even though it is renewed.
After the reconstruction, new walls were built, bricks were paved, and the whole building was painted, which hides industrial memory. In the past 20 years, the vegetation gradually spreads to the factory area, trying to cover the facade of the factory. The factory is corroding by nature, standing at the edge of the community, and forgotten by the people and city.
At the end of 2020, the owner entrusted MIX Architecture to renovate and update the factory, hoping to make it a composite emerging park with an office as the main body. Besides protecting the existing trees, architects need to show the history of the building and make the renovated building able to follow the language of the city. During the design process, we were inspired by the most attractive characteristic of the original building, which is the red brick wall. Renovating the park in a serious but casual way. We think the main characteristic of the factory is “red”.
The reasons are complex but simple. First, the factory locates on the west side of Hongshan. In Chinese “hong” means red. Second, the factory was established around the 1950s, people prefer to call the memory in that period “red memory”. Third, in some sense, the red brick building could be considered a “red building”. After consideration, Mix Architecture decides to use red bricks, red concrete blocks, red terrazzos, and red face bricks as the main material of the building.
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