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🧶ERDOS Cashmere Tech Centre 🐏
🧶ERDOS Cashmere Tech Centre 🐏
Ordos City, China
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🧶ERDOS Cashmere Tech Centre 🐏
Ordos City, China
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
“Industrial Architecture Renovation continues WAA’s interest in constructing social places.”
The Erdos Cashmere Centre is dedicated to advancing knowledge of cashmere research through the production of textiles for industry. Equipped with laboratories, sample testing rooms, and studios, the centre was originally designed to support highly specialized processes. Our commission was to regenerate this ageing facility into a contemporary R&D community — one that reflects today’s collaborative and open office practices.
The building envelope strategy is guided by the need to retain the existing building while reinventing its architectural identity. The existing industrial infrastructure imposes robust requirements on this renewal project, guiding the architectural response. Our decision to employ a rigid building envelope grid creates the illusion of re-scaling the volume, lifting what was once a heavy mass.
The new cloak acts as a reliquary (a protective and precious container), masking the former building while still alluding to the brand’s core identity — the transformation of a raw natural material into a refined luxury product. The component-driven façade, conceived as an industrial jewelled cloak, now encases the original building. Behind the cloak, a new access ramp supported by the façade provides direct access to the entrance located at the second-level foyer.
“A Focus on Working Spaces.”
The sensibility of the ‘workplace’ can be understood as a series of social spaces, where people’s activities converge either physically or visually. To support a more community-driven working environment, the first step was to improve connectivity.
The original plan organized rooms in a closed perimeter “donut.” While maintaining this structure in parts, we rotated and opened up sections around the central atrium. Programs were rotated 45 degrees on the grid as a tool to diversify circulation into sub-routes, so that Level 3 circulation is no longer a traditional orthogonal loop. This results in looser, more blurred boundaries between work zones, enabling more opportunities for people to physically engage with one another.
Furniture facilitating display was integral to shaping the new workplace culture, reinforcing openness and collaboration. The new interior avoids the older model of enclosed offices in favor of open discussion environments that younger staff, in particular, value.
The R&D sample review area is organized around bench-style displays and vertical hanging walls. Here, materials are not just stored but actively displayed, creating a working methodology where prototypes are constantly in dialogue, sparking critique and discussion. Items on the wall and shelves are not just exhibition displays but are intended for interactive browsing with colleagues. By reframing the sample library as a place for discussion, products can be researched simultaneously.
“Wherever people happen to meet - by chance or as passers-by - or converge in the act of meeting – whether accidentally or deliberately for gatherings or appointments - we can use the term Social Space”.
— Herman Hertzberger, Articulations (2002)
The Erdos Cashmere Centre is dedicated to advancing knowledge of cashmere research through the production of textiles for industry. Equipped with laboratories, sample testing rooms, and studios, the centre was originally designed to support highly specialized processes. Our commission was to regenerate this ageing facility into a contemporary R&D community — one that reflects today’s collaborative and open office practices.
The building envelope strategy is guided by the need to retain the existing building while reinventing its architectural identity. The existing industrial infrastructure imposes robust requirements on this renewal project, guiding the architectural response. Our decision to employ a rigid building envelope grid creates the illusion of re-scaling the volume, lifting what was once a heavy mass.
The new cloak acts as a reliquary (a protective and precious container), masking the former building while still alluding to the brand’s core identity — the transformation of a raw natural material into a refined luxury product. The component-driven façade, conceived as an industrial jewelled cloak, now encases the original building. Behind the cloak, a new access ramp supported by the façade provides direct access to the entrance located at the second-level foyer.
“A Focus on Working Spaces.”
The sensibility of the ‘workplace’ can be understood as a series of social spaces, where people’s activities converge either physically or visually. To support a more community-driven working environment, the first step was to improve connectivity.
The original plan organized rooms in a closed perimeter “donut.” While maintaining this structure in parts, we rotated and opened up sections around the central atrium. Programs were rotated 45 degrees on the grid as a tool to diversify circulation into sub-routes, so that Level 3 circulation is no longer a traditional orthogonal loop. This results in looser, more blurred boundaries between work zones, enabling more opportunities for people to physically engage with one another.
Furniture facilitating display was integral to shaping the new workplace culture, reinforcing openness and collaboration. The new interior avoids the older model of enclosed offices in favor of open discussion environments that younger staff, in particular, value.
The R&D sample review area is organized around bench-style displays and vertical hanging walls. Here, materials are not just stored but actively displayed, creating a working methodology where prototypes are constantly in dialogue, sparking critique and discussion. Items on the wall and shelves are not just exhibition displays but are intended for interactive browsing with colleagues. By reframing the sample library as a place for discussion, products can be researched simultaneously.
“Wherever people happen to meet - by chance or as passers-by - or converge in the act of meeting – whether accidentally or deliberately for gatherings or appointments - we can use the term Social Space”.
— Herman Hertzberger, Articulations (2002)
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