Sinno Group is mainly engaged in the R&D and production of high-end cosmetic products, which is one of the first few of innovative service key enterprises recognised by the Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration, and its innovative strength has established the advanced industry position of Sinno. As the core factory, Sinno Park is forming the manufacturing matrix of the group, together with the skin-care product factory, cosmetics/fragrance factory, perfume and aerosol factory, which is positioned as a future office-factory form that balanced efficiency and humanisation.
01 Underlying logic
Guided by the production attributes, industrial architecture always pursues spatial rationality of order and efficiency. Returning to the fundamental of organising a space - the origin of creation derived from internal organisation and human behaviours. According to the plan, Sinno Park not only serves as an office and production unit, but also undertakes functions such as exhibition, R&D, testing, logistics and warehousing, as well as staff welfare. The manufacturing centre follows strict standards for a series of process flows, from raw material transportation to processing, testing, and the storage of finished products. In addition to separating logistics and pedestrian flow, reserving the possibility of space for artificial intelligence devices application in the future is crucial.
Traditional industrial planning strategies are impossible to solve the contradiction between process logistics and personnel flow simultaneously. Therefore, it is urgent to create a new form of industrial space that can maintain the independence of each technical production unit while encouraging efficiency maximisation, gathering and discussing, as well as social interaction of different process technicians.
After exploring various spatial layout possibilities, we separated different functional units. Then, those volumes were further developed based on the efficient maximisation principle in the vertical direction, while horizontally connected seamlessly through a circular track reserved for the future factory mode where humans and robots work together, constructing a clustered multi-functional complex. The layout of different functional units achieves the efficiency-oriented goal by minimising the necessary distance, and the corridors as the connector creates a number of large-scale grey spaces for flexible application in practical use.
02 Neo archi-scenery relationships
While meeting the process requirements, Sinno Park explores low-carbon strategies, functional composites, and sustainable development. The five mega-structures release a large amount of internal landscape; meanwhile, they create the possibility of responding to the ecological resources of the surroundings, which is a sustainable factory concept based on the dual development of green energy and human comfort at the urban scale.
The 4500m³ water storage and cooling project buried underground is not only for fire-fighting purposes, but also the essential facility for off-peak electricity consumption. This, in conjunction with solar photovoltaic panels and intelligent building control systems, maintains the inherent technicality and ecological nature of architecture. Rather than bringing greenery into the office, this project chooses to place both work and life in the nature.
03 Reorganisation of logic
With the subpision of industries and technological upgrading, various functions including office, experimentation, and production & processing, as well as intelligent warehousing can be realised in a composite form. This project attempts to juxtapose different segments in the industrial chain such as business, R&D, quality control, and testing into a vertical stack of industrial buildings. According to different functional requirements, the spatial reorganisation is completed from modules to zones, from inpidual to sharing. Meeting spaces of different scales and levels of privacy are interspersed in between, forming a refined intersection space.
Under the principle of optimising comprehensive benefits from multiple stakeholders such as process flow, functional form, energy recycling, and sustainable development, Sinno Park will gradually form a quasi-living organism status of regrowth and looping in operation. In Shing & Partners’ long-term vision, such isomorphic relationship between architecture and life can be mapped to larger, broader, and more complex architectural/urban objects, overlapping with existing urban textures to achieve an iterative model of urban systems.