T-Ham Pabp Factory
T-HAM PABP FACTORY
WZWX Architecture Group
ARCHITECTS
WZWX Architecture Group
CLIENTS
Taiwan Farm Industry Co., Ltd
PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Guerra
AREA
24000.0 m2
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Taiwan (ROC)
CATEGORIE
Factory
Text description provided by architect.
Located in the Pingtung Agricultural and Bio-technology Park (PABP) in southern Taiwan, the T-Ham PABP factory is the largest and the most advanced meatprocessing factory in the country.
This LEED gold certified factory complex contains a main factory building (22,000 m²), a diner and gift shop building (650 m²), and a waste water treatment building. It produces 1,200 tons of processed meat products per month.
The factory’s expansive product range covers more than 250 items,ranging from Western style hams, sausages and bacon, to artisanal wood smoked hand-tied hams, to Chinese style stewed, boiled and roasted meats, ready-to-eat meals, as well as various meat ingredients for chain restaurants and bakeries.
The client T-HAM is the oldest and the largest meat processing brand in Taiwan with over 50 years of history. The design of this new factory has been assigned with four principal goals.
- Firstly, it is to double the company’s production capacity in order to meet increasingdemand from the domestic market.
- Secondly, to upgrade theproduction facility in order to meet the export requirements of Japan and Singapore (two of the strictest standards in Asia) as it preparesfor market expansion in 2020.
- Thirdly, it is to deliver a statement of the company’s corporate values which are high quality products, sustainable development, and environmental friendliness.
- Fourthly, it is to upgrade the working environment of their factory workers and their daily working experience - as “happy employees make better products”.
The conventional meat processing factory building in Taiwan is essentially an enclosed refrigerated shed for storage and production.For this project, the design team pursued a spatial solution that is neither a shed, nor a fridge-like box, in order to distinguish ourselves from other brands.
We wanted to incorporate as much daylight and views of the outside as possible into the building to improve the users’ experience.
The factory’s various so called ancillary functions were identified and organised to the “front” of the building behind a curtain wall facade in order to provide plenty natural light and views for these human activities.
