Fengtay Agriculture R&D Center
FENGTAY AGRICULTURE R&D CENTER
Bio-architecture Formosana
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ying Chao Kuo, Ching Hwa Chang
MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Di-Ding Engineering Consulting Company
MANUFACTURERS
Pomplusl
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Envision Engineering Consultant
CONSTRUCTION
Feng Yu Group
HVAC
Green HVAC & R. Consultant
LANDSCAPE
Eco Orange Landscape Architecture Planning And Design Co.Ltd.
DESIGN TEAM
Sheng Liang Tsai, Po Wei Lai, Shi Jun Yu, Chun Hao Wu, Chieh Yu Liao, Wan Yu Chen,
Chan Ching Wu, I Te Tsai, Ren Chiao Guo
FIRE ENGINEERING
Ld Fire Fighting Engineering Co.Ltd
YEAR
2020
AREA
7301 m²
CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings
LOCATION
TAIWAN (ROC)
Text description provided by architect.
Fengtay Foundation is a non-profit organization in southern Taiwan that is dedicated to promote organic agriculture.
The park features office space for the foundation, laboratories for inspection and certification of organic products, and a logistical center for the cleaning and packaging of agricultural products.
Brick was considered one of the most essential building materials in Taiwan's rural villages in the 19th-century.
Therefore, in an attempt to revitalize the spirit of Taiwan’s 19th-century agriculture and coexistence with nature, the façade uses brick as its choice building material.
The goal of this project was to reform agricultural regulations, which means the application of brick as a building material needed to likewise deviate from traditional mortar methods.
A new construction method was established to provide the brick façade with a richer and more contemporary expression by linking each brick with a steel rod.
Each brick was separated by a rubber padding to maximize the overall façade permeability and at the same time breakthrough the height limit set by traditional methods of bricklaying.
In order to verify this new method the client, design team, and construction team co-commissioned the NTU Seismological Lab to run a seismic study on a five-meter-high and a ten-meter-high model.
This study aided in understanding the behavior of this new brick wall under seismic activity, which serviced in modifying the design based on the results of the study.
Due to the high permeability of the brick wall, the west-side façade resembles layers of shading blinds.
It provides quite a poetic lighting effect in the space behind when the afternoon sun penetrates through the blinds.
Not only does the brick wall provide an energy saving benefit, but also communicates a new sense of contemporary rural village esthetics.
