立建築

Design Goals and Concepts
The Industrial Research Institute has established an interior remodeling team within the organization, combining engineering, equipment, and operational management colleagues to propose appropriate renovation plans for the institute's space, gradually transforming it into a research space that encompasses both humanities and aesthetics. This project is the first competition design by the interior remodeling team. However, after the competition, the institute conducted a detailed feasibility analysis of the operation and space content of the building. A professional team was selected to be responsible for the future revitalization and operation. Therefore, the design process of this project has undergone multiple negotiations and discussions with the operation team to reach a design consensus. Although the final design outcome is quite different from the competition proposal, after the building started its operation, there were no significant usability issues reported with the interior spaces. This kind of experience is extremely rare in Taiwan's public sector construction projects. In public projects, only by identifying the operation team and usage content early and coordinating and communicating with the design team can the most user-friendly solution be created.

Usage Orientation
The renovated Employee Activity Center primarily serves the employees of the Industrial Research Institute. It will present itself as a "Sports Center" and will be operated by an external party. The center will offer affordable and simple services to the majority of employees, including an aerobic fitness center, an indoor well-lit heated swimming pool, a sports center for ball games, etc. It will also include areas for light meals and outdoor performance squares to attract various activities. The usage of the space can be divided into the following categories:

Aerobic Fitness Center: Stretching area, weight training area, spinning classroom, cardio workout area with audiovisual facilities, fitness assessment room, group exercise classrooms, and locker areas for both men and women.

Sports Center: Billiards area, table tennis area, indoor badminton court that doubles as a basketball court, outdoor tennis court, batting practice area for baseball and softball, and locker areas for both men and women.

Indoor Heated Swimming Pool: 50m x 14m heated swimming pool, children's practice pool, practice pool, SPA therapy pool, sauna areas for both men and women, and resting areas.

Selling and Light Snack Area: Sporting goods shop and light snack and coffee bar.

Administrative Spaces: Administrative offices, medical room, equipment storage room.

Space Organization
The project roughly divides the building mass into the central service corridor, ball sports center (originally building 88), indoor heated swimming pool, fitness center, and batting field.

A spacious outdoor space is reserved at the entrance, integrating paving and landscaping to create a multi-functional plaza for various activities and harmonize the surrounding landscape.

The swimming pool features a large-span structure with a special steel frame, creating a vast swimming pool space with curtain glass walls complemented by punched steel panels. Natural light filters through various-sized openings, casting ripple-like reflections on the water.

Apart from the more sports-oriented 50m swimming pool, other areas, such as the practice pool, therapy pool, and children's pool, are harmoniously blended with outdoor views, natural light, and landscaping, creating a relaxed atmosphere for the leisure center.

The central strip-shaped building serves as a public corridor, connecting the ball sports center and fitness center. This corridor also functions as a social space for employees and houses the reception desk, a sales area, and a coffee and light snack area. Employees can access each facility through this corridor.

Materials and Colors
The swimming pool's flooring materials focus on slip resistance, primarily using pebble flooring and stone slabs combined with small mosaic tiles. The interior features wooden furniture, indoor plants, and extensive outdoor landscaping to create a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere for the leisure swimming pool.

The main hall and corridors continue the outdoor paving with stone materials, complemented by skylights to create a naturally comfortable indoor public space. The fitness area mainly uses carpet and metal mesh ceilings with indirect lighting to achieve a uniformly lit space. The ball sports area is paired with EPOXY flooring and enhanced with edge collision protection. The batting field features a metal mesh wall in contrasting shades of green, conveying the imagery of "baseball."

Distinctive colors are used for each functional unit to create an identification system, which is complemented by integrated signage.

Overall Energy-Saving Strategies

Shading and Heat Insulation: Utilize double-layer roofing with air gaps to block sunlight and heat conduction. The lightweight exterior wall is filled with insulation materials.

Ventilation: In the ground floor, cool air can be introduced through the swimming pool, enhanced by convection through high and low windows to achieve overall ventilation. On the second floor, ventilation vents guide hot air out and create air movement to enhance heat insulation.

Renewable Energy: The project adopts an energy-saving heat pump system supplemented by a solar hot water system, reducing energy consumption by over 44% compared to traditional boiler heating systems.

Rainwater Harvesting: Rainwater is collected from the expansive second-floor floor and overflowing pool water, then directed to filtration and storage tanks for reuse in landscape irrigation.

Water Treatment Design: The water treatment design uses coal, quartz sand, and gravel filtration technology with automatic positive and reverse flushing control. Treated recycled water is used for positive and reverse flushing to save tap water consumption.

Filter Circulation System: Pool water circulation is used to reduce the frequency of water replenishment, saving water and energy consumption. The swimming pool and practice pool will be partially disinfected using ozone (O3) in combination with chlorine disinfectants. Due to the high water temperature, the SPA pool and children's play pool will be treated with a separate UV-253.7nm system and equipped with a chlorine system.