迈凯伦制造中心，英国 / Foster + Partners

The McLaren Production Centre is the second building designed by Foster + Partners at McLaren’s rural site on the outskirts of London. The 34,500-square-metre facility is intended for the manufacture of a range of high-performance road cars and is located to the south-west of the existing McLaren Technology Centre. The two buildings will be connected by a subterranean walkway, lined with interactive exhibition spaces. Sharing a common language of details and materials, the new building is clad in aluminium tubes, the rounded corners of its rectilinear plan reference the curves of the Technology Centre and the entrance, echoing the existing building, is a circular glass drum beneath the overhang of the roof canopy.

The MPC further develops an approach to industrial architecture that was first explored in some of the practice’s earliest projects for Reliance Controls and Renault. The roof canopy is supported by a series of slender columns based on a standard grid with repeated components, and services are integrated with the painted steel structure. McLaren’s manufacturing processes are closer in spirit to an operating theatre than a factory and the new building, with its ceramic tiled floors, is designed to showcase this technology. The linear arrangement of the two-storey structure mirrors the flow of the production line: components are delivered; the cars are assembled, painted and tested, and then pass through a rolling road and car wash, before leaving the building. Below this is a basement level for storage and above is a mezzanine floor with views over the production line.

The expansion of the campus is a similarly discreet intervention in the landscape. Rising to just over 7 metres in height and embedded in the gentle incline of the site, the MPC is sensitive to its rural setting and will not be visible from the nearby road. Further screening will be provided by the extensive planting of trees and excavated material will help to conceal the building within the hill. The new building is also designed to be sustainable – the Technology Centre uses the lake for its cooling system, so the roof of the MPC supports this by collecting rainwater and implementing a low-energy system of displacement ventilation.

迈凯伦生产中心是福斯特事务所为迈凯伦公司在伦敦郊区设计的第二个项目。

工厂面积345000平方米，位于现在的迈凯轮技术中心的西南方，主要用于生产高性能的跑车，两座建筑通过一条地下步道相连，同时使用了相同的建筑语言以及材料，新建筑覆盖铝表皮，造型流线，采用弧形玻璃，主入口隐藏在屋顶挑檐之下。

这个建筑实现了工业建筑的探索。屋顶使用集成彩钢板加重复的标准钢支架，宽阔的柱间距和陶瓷地面让空间更为灵活。此建筑从精神上讲，更多了一些技术展示意味。生产线并列排布，汽车组件经过交付，组装，喷彩以及测试，然后完成并经过情节，最后通过专用道路离这个能看见美丽风景的大楼，存放至地下。

建筑对景观谨慎的干预，部分嵌入场地地下，从附近道路不会看见建筑。广泛种植树木掩盖建筑。同时采用一系列可持续性措施，采用湖水冷却系统，屋顶收集雨水，以及一个低耗能的通风换气设备。

McLaren Production Centre Woking, UK 2009 – 2011 Client McLaren Group Design commenced April 2009 Planning August 2009 Construction April 2010 – March 2011 Gross Area: 34,500m2 Area Breakdown Ground Basement* ** Total Total* 19,675m2 13,510m2 34,500m2 *Not including tunnel area **Including 740smq external plant area

External Plant Area 620m2 Building Height 6.6m Building Length 200m Building Width 100m Length of tunnel 100m (between visitors centre and MPC) Number of Storeys 2 (Ground and basement) Height of Storeys Ground: 5m (Floor to ceiling) Basement: 4m (Floor to ceiling) Structural Grid Ground level: 21m x 18m Basement: 9m x 9m Structure Basement: Reinforced Concrete Ground floor: Steel beams Integrated Services and Structure Primary steel beam  Secondary beam Rainwater gutter  Light fitting suspended from beam Air duct (800 mm inc insulation) Cable tray (power/data) Compressed air and water supply Water/sprinkler Power supply Jet flow diffuser Services panels (in column) Less columns – more flexibility Standard tile sides No visible duct work Optimised tiling, schlueter joint, lighting and sprinkler grid Materials 1,500 piles, each around 14 m in length 210,000 m3 of concrete with typical pour sizes of 500m3 9,200 m2 of blockwork equating to 92,000 blocks 1,500 tonnes of structural steelwork makes up the frame, 30 pieces of steel erected each day throughout the programme Approximately 200,000 m3 of material was excavated as part of the basement box construction, including the temporary batter Cladding, Glazed walls, Aluminium tubes, 9m panels Roof sky lights, 5% of roof area, Roof overhang 5m. Sustainability • 34% reduction in CO2 emissions by design from ADL2A baseline • 820 new trees – 68 existing mature trees replanted on site before bird- nesting season • The paint shop requires no air conditioning – a conventional paint shop would require an additional 2.5 megawatts to operate • 180,000m3 of soil displaced during construction retained on site and re-used in the landscaping project to screen the MPC from view

Parking  Car space: 400 Bike spaces: 76 Scale comparisons • 3 jumbo jets can fit in the floor plan area • 2,469 F1 cars could fit in the ground floor plan area • If all the 218,000 ceramic tiles specified were laid end to end they would stretch from London to Reading •  If all the steel columns were stacked on top of each other they would reach a height of 895m, almost 3 times the height of the Eiffel tower (324m) • 180,000m3 of soil excavated. This would fill level +1 and Ground level of McLaren Technology centre

Foster + Partners Team Norman Foster David Nelson Nigel Dancey Iwan Jones Dominik Hauser Nina Linde Chris Johnstone Kathleen Mark Nicholas Papas Client McLaren Group Structural and Civil Geothermic Fire Acoustics CDM Buro Happold Services and Environmental Consultant PHA Consult Landscape Architect Planning Consultant Terence O’Rourke Quantity Surveyor Gardiner & Thebold