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Organic Farm

Located in the farmland on the fringe area of Guye district in Tangshan, China, Arch Studio designed a wood and policarbonate building that acts as a processing workshop of organic food.

The project is located in the farmland on the fringe area of Guye district,  Tangshan. Villages and houses are scattered around. The site is a rectangular flat land covers an area of 6000 sqm. The basic function of the building is acting as a processing workshop of organic food – raw materials come from organic producing areas across the country, being collected, processed and packed here, and then being delivered to other places as finished products.

The entire building is made up of four enclosed relatively independent houses, including Material Storage, the Mill, Oil Pressing Workshop and Packing Area. The inner courtyard is the Grain-Sunning Ground, and a convenient work cycle line is formed around the inner courtyard.

The boundary of the building is the external corridor that connects the four areas, and it is the route to visit the food processing workshop. The central courtyard spans out around the building randomly, topologically form a courtyard space of multiple layers, which meets the demand for natural ventilation, natural lighting and views of a workshop while maintaining nice interior and exterior space quality. The organic connection of courtyard and house creates functional areas of different sizes under one big roof: small sized corridor, medium sized rooms and large sized workshop, which flexibly meet the requirements of compound use of the workshop.

The design chooses glued timber structure as the major structure due to its light weighted, easy processed and installed and natural properties. The facade is covered with translucent policarbonate board which is light and easy to be installed as well. It sits in a 60cm cement base, which allows the wood structure being moisture proofed against the ground and allows it to hide pipelines of some fixed equipments.