Pantech Corporation 办公楼丨巴西丨S.PIN ARCHITECT

Firm： S.PIN ARCHITECT

Type： Commercial › Office Industrial › Factory

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2014

SIZE： 25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET： $10M - 50M

INTRO

The site is located at one of the main entrance to Pasir Gudang Industrial Park, a vast industrial estate in Johor, Malaysia. The brief called for a new corporate office building to serve the factories at site & to be the icon to the company’s global image in stainless steel products.

MINIMUM INTERVENTION MAXIMUM EFFECT

The design negotiates the realm between industrial utilitarian need and the quest of statement making. It challenges the typical symmetrical cathedral-like office front which normally oddly attached to the

utilitarian factory structure at the rear. This office block greets the main access road diagonally via north-west corner. The geometry of the north-west feature façade derived from the idea to have minimal intervention to the periphery of the already optimised floor plates. This glazed feature corner is heavily shaded by metal fins.

MACHINE IN MOTION

The building shape resembles a gigantic machine which visually looks like ‘running’ the factory at the back. The lower slanting glass of the feature corner gives the building the ‘ready-to-move’ effect. The asymmetrical form is further defined by the cascading window lines. The contrasting glazing design between the feature corner and the general façade add momentum to the non-static effect.

MATERIALS, STRUCTURE & CONSTRUCTION

Metal & glass finishes used to express the various stainless steel products produced by the company

THE WIND-SHADE CURTAIN WALL

The shaded glass strip openings at stair well capture direct wind. The glass wall creates stair silhouette at the side elevation. Windows have been created at stair well top to induce stack effect at the stair well.

THE ANTI-GLARE SUN SHADING

The lowered down window sun- shading panel reduces upper sky glare at seating level and reflects the sunlight to the ceiling. The Low-E glass used reduces the heat gain.

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE & IMPACT

Contextually, the building’s futuristic sophistication stands well on the bare horizon at the site which only dotting with the low & expansive industrial structure. It manage to achieve a non-box shape architecture without compromising much of the optimum use of office floor space.