Ballard园区制冰厂改造丨印度丨Malik Architecture

Ambico制冰厂已有140年历史，位于孟买历史文化核心地段的Ballard Estate（巴拉德园区）内。我们将其重新构想为IF.BE（Ice Factory Ballard Estate），一个融合艺术、展览、活动、表演、聚会、餐饮与设计的有机空间。本质上，它是一个供人相遇与交流的场所，围绕一棵古老的榕树展开，被一组美丽却已老化的建筑所环绕。

The 140-year-old Ambico Ice Factory is located in Ballard estate, the heart of Mumbai’s heritage precinct. We have re-imagined the space as IF.BE (Ice Factory Ballard Estate), an organism that merges art/exhibition/events/performance/gathering/food and design. Essentially it is a space for encounter, organized within beautiful but ageing structures surrounding a large Banyan tree.

▼改造后制冰厂，the Ice Factory after renovation ©Bharath Ramamrutham

▼围绕一棵古老的榕树展开，surrounding a large Banyan tree ©Bharath Ramamrutham

长期以来的时间侵蚀、随意添加的结构，以及不对称的结构与设施负荷，导致了不同程度的破损与衰败。通过耐心而细致的勘查，这些问题逐步显现。历史图纸资料显示，原本的建筑围合出一个连续的庭院，但如今已被临时结构与金属屋顶所填塞。

▼轴测爆炸图，exploded axonometric ©Malik Architecture

Time, arbitrary additions, asymmetric structural and infrastructural loading had caused a level of damage and decay that was revealed through a patient and assiduous examination. The drawing archives revealed a continuous courtyard, which was now cluttered with ad-hoc structures and metal roofs.

▼连续的庭院，a continuous courtyard ©Bharath Ramamrutham

▼修复后的屋顶，the roof after renovation ©Bharath Ramamrutham

▼最初的砖墙轮廓显现，the first semblance of brickwork could emerge ©Bharath Ramamrutham

▼重构制冰厂的建筑逻辑，reconstructing the architectural logic of the ice factory ©Bharath Ramamrutham

▼重构制冰厂的建筑逻辑，reconstructing the architectural logic of the ice factory ©Bharath Ramamrutham

我们花了四个月的时间，轻柔地剥除厂房上几十年历史的粉刷层，直到最初的砖墙轮廓显现。建筑中使用的珍贵缅甸柚木构件，也在修复过程中逐渐重见天日。制冰厂、变电站、冷库与制冰区均需经过细致的检查和“外科手术式”的修缮介入，通过加固手段稳固坍塌的墙体、下垂的屋顶与桁架结构。最终，我们拼接起一幅由材料碎片与尺寸信息组成的“手稿”，以此重构制冰厂的空间语言与建筑逻辑。

For four months, the factory’s decades-old plaster walls were gently scraped before the first semblance of brickwork could emerge. The building’s vintage Burma teak woodwork, lost to time, was slowly uncovered. The Ice Factory, sub-station, cold storage and the ice-cubing area required intensive examination and surgical intervention through retrofits to stabilize crumbling walls, sagging roofs and trusses. Eventually, a palimpsest of small material fragments and measurements were pieced together to understand the Ice Factory’s spatial vocabulary.

▼改造过程，renovation progress ©Malik Architecture

▼改造策略，renovation strategy ©Malik Architecture

IF.BE 被视为一颗“种子”，在这个以商业为主的历史街区中播下城市更新的可能。整合与缝合的过程，旨在强化那种微妙而脆弱的关系——介于“被发现之物”与“重新创造之物”之间。

IF.BE is a “seed” for urban regeneration in a largely commercial heritage precinct. The suturing is imagined to heighten the fragile, almost tenuous relationship between the ‘Found’ and the ‘Made’.

▼周围环境，context ©Malik Architecture

▼改造策略，renovation strategy ©Malik Architecture

▼一层平面图，ground floor plan ©Malik Architecture

▼二层平面图，first floor plan ©Malik Architecture

▼剖透视，perspective section ©Malik Architecture

Project size: 1000 m2

Site size: 1040 m2

Completion date: 2022

Building levels: 2

Credits: Malik Architecture

Principal architect: Kamal Malik Arjun Malik

Photographer: Bharath Ramamrutham