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Presently we observe a shift of human activity from the traditional methods of manufacturing products for increasingly specialized and evolving robotic and IT systems. For obvious economic and technological reasons this change is first strongly visible in industrial production. Along with technological advances is a dramatic shift of man’s place in the production process from the position at the machine to the back of this process as designer, supervisor and controller of information systems that manage production process. This seemingly obvious change results in completely new challenges for both industrial architecture but also the wider built environment as it dramatically reduces the number of jobs with completely new requirements for workplace and its architecture. The author of this article discusses the above issue on the example of the design of technologically advanced 3D printing plant from the point of view of the designer.
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Architect’s practice is based not only on professional skills but also experience. However, qualitative research of examples of buildings of the same type as the one currently being designed [1] is still not very popular among professionals. In this case of 3D printing factory, the author and the team of engineers visited main factory in Belgium, to become acquainted with the production and company’s philosophy and policy. The knowledge had to be adopted to Polish conditions in individual, innovatory solution, as no other buildings for production of this particular type are yet built in Poland.
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In this article the author focuses on ergonomic optimization of multiple aspects of design of discussed building as model example of new challenges, which architects face in typical design of an utilitarian unit of production plant. For thorough in-depth study of interdependencies of aesthetic and technical aspects of industrial architecture on many examples of built objects refer to e-book “Aesthetics and technics in industrial architecture” [2].
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Poland as a member of European Union has to tune national policy of development with the common indications. However, this process takes time, due to the fact that richer countries which formed EU before Poland’s access began introducing sustainability in nineties of 20th century [4].
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Horn, P. (2019). New Challenges for the Industrial Architecture. Ergonomics on the Edge of a New Era of IT Technology and Deep Learning. In: Charytonowicz, J., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_38
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