Renheli HIIG Intelligent Manufacturing Center is the first industrial relocation park in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, themed "SRDI + Fund." Jointly developed by HIIG, a Fortune 500 company, and state-owned enterprises in the Yuhang Economic Development Zone, it focuses on intelligent manufacturing and new energy. The project, with a total construction area of approximately 210,000 square meters, was completed in approximately two years. As construction of this benchmark industrial relocation project in the Yangtze River Delta nears completion, new operational requirements have arisen in response to specific market conditions:

1.The need to provide indoor venues for medium- and large-scale events for tenants.
2.The need to enhance accessibility within the core courtyard.
3.The need to adjust the ground floor's commercial circulation and store organization to enhance the operational experience.

After thorough on-site communication and observation with the client, ATAH drawing on its experience in vertical industrial parks and park renovation, proposed
the following adjustments:

1.The originally planned large outdoor staircase was relocated to accommodate new meeting and multi-functional spaces.
2.The establishment of diagonal wall structures to strengthen the connection with the southern landscape.
3.Create more gray spaces and refine the commercial exteriors for a more accessible experience.
4.Fragment the exhibition space and integrate it into the circulation below.

The most noticeable change is the addition of a theme conference hall. The client accepted the architect's suggestion and partially removed the large outdoor staircase to create a fully elevated space. Attendees can ascend to the rooftop to enjoy the riverside scenery to the south, and the space can also be used for extended outdoor meetings. Unlike the typical black box design, the architects adopted a transparent approach to the south facade. Through internal roof shading, the amount of light entering can be controlled. This approach aims to break the closed-off feeling of traditional conference halls, visually integrating indoor and outdoor spaces and enhancing the openness and fluidity of the space. In some cases, the transparent facades bring in the natural environment, giving performances a unique natural atmosphere and enhancing the audience's immersion. To complement the lecture hall's layout and enhance the permeability of the landscape, the design uses beveled solid walls as space dividers. The architects enriched the facade's performance with varying lighting conditions by using perforated metal panels integrated with lighting. Since this renovation was a concurrent renovation during construction, we proposed two contrasting structural options to maximize spatial possibilities while maximizing the use of existing structures. The former enhances openness to the landscape while minimizing changes to existing structural columns and basements, ensuring sufficient space for movement in the second-floor corridor. The latter utilizes existing column positions and appropriately restructures the beams and slabs, further enhancing the interior space. The increased floor height allows for greater daylight, while the newly added skylights serve as lighting and ventilation surfaces.

Encircling the new conference hall, the architects recreated an "industrial core" by refining the scale of the interface surrounding the courtyard. At the three entrances, "thick walls" were created to align with the circulation flow, fragmenting the wall thickness to incorporate miniature functions, imbuing the space with a tangible warmth. Three exhibition themes were designed around the thick walls of the three entrances: an industrial time-space journey at the north entrance, an industrial future experience at the south exit, and a scale garden at the east branch. These correspond to the starting and ending points of the exhibition flow, as well as a relaxing and resting area. The corridor atrium and exhibition hall are composed of a sequence of flexibly divisible indoor spaces, nested semi-outdoor spaces, and outdoor spaces surrounding the courtyard. The continuous space, facing the inner courtyard and south, features folding doors, creating an industrial feel and a seamless indoor-outdoor experience. The non-spanning spaces can be further extended as needed, and their partitions can be fixed or sliding.

The simultaneous construction and upgrading demonstrates the client's proactive response to meet real-world needs. While adhering to the original planning logic, ATAH simultaneously enhanced the project's service infrastructure through the addition of new ground-level support functions, upgraded interface levels, and integrated landscape design. The architects transcended the pr-defined spatial framework, enhancing the overall park experience and laying a solid foundation for future industrial development.

Since ATAH was involved in this project only months before the grand opening, faced with the constraints of the project schedule and construction conditions, many design intentions still needed to be realized through subsequent adjustments. However, the experience of accompanying owners and partners through the "last mile" led me to reflect on the need for systematically implementing "three preconditions and three flexibility" in the early stages of comprehensive industrial park design: planning preconditions, structural preconditions, and operational preconditions; spatial flexibility, interface flexibility, and content flexibility. This shouldn't be a passive checkbox on a specification sheet, but rather a hardcore indicator incorporated into feasibility studies from the outset of planning—just like loads, column grids, and logistics, it can be calculated, verified, and capitalized. When exhibition area, conference loads, display loads, rooftop live loads, and mechanical and electrical redundancy are incorporated into the design brief, and when the "rent + operation" dual-wheel model is incorporated into financial calculations, can industrial relocation truly complete the paradigm shift from "vertical factory" to "vertical industrial community."

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