NXP New Expansion

NXP New Expansion, Petaling Jaya (New Office Facility and Laboratory Converted from Existing Multi Storey Carpark)

• Located at the Sungai Way Free Industrial Zone at Petaling Jaya, the challenge is how to facilitate the office expansion and new laboratory into the an existing building which previously operated as multi storey car park since 90’s

• The new expansion of office facility and laboratory serves as a new vision and symbol for the company to reach a greater milestone.

• The design brief is to facilitate connecting to the Level 1 laboratory and Level 2 new office with a unique design staircasefrom the existing assembly plant to the existing multi storey car park building in responding to the neighbourhood context of existing memorial courtyard.

Architectural Expression

• Inspired from the simplistic aura of industrial precision and semi-circular edges and surfaces composition of the existing multi storey car park building, the office facility is designated to maintain the off-form finish of the circular columns respecting the existing car park building context, the architect strived to achieve a balance in both with emphasis in the quality of working environment with interior design touch up where the workers and employees can enjoy and utilize during their working hours.

• With design enhancement at the existing memorial courtyard, it receives more daylight that helps to highlight the 2-sty high featured staircase connecting the first floor office and ground floor laboratory. This unique staircase is cladded with expanded metal mesh, fixed glass and aluminium composite panel in random arrangement vertically, the curvilinear form plays the twist & turn from different levels of the level 2 office, level 1 laboratory, outdoor memorial courtyard and the existing manufacturing plant.

• Another design intent was to responding the external Brutalist-inspired semi-circular outlook of the multi storey carpark building, the guide of design principal for the office facility interior spaces is to provide an interesting spatial quality of spaces for the people to gather, such as bar top hot desk intergrated with off-form column, big U-shape bar height office pantry, vertical aluminium powder coated louvers in circular-framed office lounge and etc.

Environmental Sustainable design

• The horizontal cladding façade that screening 3 storeys of the car park building consists of variety of materials (expanded metal mesh in paint finish and aluminium composite panel) acts as a shading device to the hot sun allows sufficient daylight into the designated office spaces. The random design arraignment creates an unique spatial experience of shadow casting to the interior spaces such as, office pantry, discussion rooms, meeting rooms, manager rooms and open working stations.

• The selection of aluminium composite panel and expanded metal mesh in random designated arrangement reduce the heat gain via direct sunlight while the extruded office pantry and meeting room are finished as a interlocking cube with the building façade. This interplay of solid and void forms the basis of the architectural massing of the building design.