Rocket Factory

project integumentary Rocket factories

2021

Kaveen Gallage Joshua Corban-Banks Liam Rout

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P r o j e c t integumentary Project integumentary tries to capture the narrative of past manufacturing industry while bringing a new perspective to the rapidly evolving industry of manufacturing rockets.

SITE PLAN

Located in Brisbane’s eastern industrial, the factory strives to transition Australia’s premiere rocket company, Gilmore Space Technologies, into a high production volume global competitor. The factory does this through its key features of adaptivity, expressiveness and efficiency. With the entirety of the manufacturing process encompassed under one roof, from design to distribution, the exterior shell responds to the programmatic requirements of those interior spaces through sweeping, exaggerated curves, vertical shifts, articulated creases, and openings. Internally there is a seamless interface between engineering and production, with the two directly interacting with each other to dramatically increase the speed of design iteration, a key requirement for this rapidly evolving industry. Further down the production line, the factory is set up to be much more linear to be able to cope with the increased volume of rockets being made, taking on strategies from the 20th century factory model.

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SHELL ITERATION PROCESS 4

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the shell

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OFFICE ENTRY

OFFICE

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PEOPLE MOVEMENT

MAIN ENTRY

VEHICLE MOVEMENT

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FINAL INTEGRATION AREA AND SHIPPING PREPARATION 12

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LOADING AREA

VIEW OF OFFICE

HITL LAB

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