Architects Foster + Partners have completed a production centre for British sports car brand McLaren.
The facility has wide spans offering maximum assembly space while the basement is used for storage and machinery and a mezzanine offers a view of the production line.
High-performance sports cars are manufactured, painted and tested on a linear production line that dictated the building’s rectilinear form.
The McLaren Technology Centre’s curved surfaces and horizontal aluminium cladding reference the existing buildings on the site in Woking near London.
An underground tunnel will link the production centre to the McLaren Technology Centre, which was also designed by Foster + Partners.
Trees screen the building from the nearby road and the whole structure is sunk into the incline of the site, reducing its visual impact on the landscape.
Foster + Partners recently completed another transport facility – the world’s first commercial spaceport – and also unveiled a proposal for a massive transport hub in the Thames. See all of our previous stories on Foster + Partners.
All photography is from McLaren. The drawings below are from Foster + Partners.
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