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TEAM: Marco Cannas, Eleonora Moi – Italian

NOT JUST A FACTORY

In a world where factories are seen as polluting buildings, sometimes also dangerous for our health, “The White Line” factory aims to be an innovative and unconventional project.

The first main characteristic is that the building is placed into a forest, but its structure (only five metres high) doesn’t deface this natural location, making this type of factory appropriate also for other landscapes. Moreover, the building has an unconventional shape (a white curvy line among hundreds of trees), which doesn’t make it resemble to a common factory.

In “The White Line” factory, ecological paper is produced following a completely natural process, from the raw materials collection to the storage and delivery of the final products. The unconventional aspect of this type of factory is that all the employees work in the same linear building, as a real assembly line, using raw materials offered by the forest (like leaves and dead wood, key materials of ecological paper production).

In addition to this, the factory is also a meeting point, a white line that draws a square in the middle of the forest and that hosts whoever wants to see the producing process or just have an hour or two outdoors.

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TEAM: Sara Siricio – Italian – Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”

How to arrange a factory between an unbuilt land and a village

The factory is located in Mettmenstetten, a small village near Zurich, at the boundary between an unbuilt area and the village itself. The company produces sliding hardware systems, like furniture and sliding doors.

The design takes into consideration these two aspects: the lack of public spaces and the buildings aggregration around a green semiprivate courtyard.

The aim is to create an interaction between the factory and the village, to offer the inhabitants new common spaces between the industrial area and the civil one.

The volums define a big public square, that is connected to the factory through a third element, a portico, which is the filter between the inside and the outside, the private area and the public one.

The buildings and the portico position creates views on the landscape.

A pedestrian rail crossing allows the village people to reach the factory and its facilities.

The bottom of the square houses the production areas, connected to a warehouse. The two wings that opens on the railway station house public facilities like a canteen, cafes, a gym, the factory showroom and the rail ticket office. They all can serve both the workers and the inhabitants.

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TEAM: Matteo Di Ciommo – Italian

A trivets

Mike is a couple of trivets made in wood.

It’s thought to be fast to made (cut with a CNC machine) and easy to assemble (glue the joints) in a fab-lab  without forgetting to be an elegant and cheap design object.