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TCC DAKA Renewable Resource Recycling Center
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The DAKA RRRC radically reimagines the role of industrial architecture in society. By wrapping a high-efficiency waste recovery facility in a sensitively designed nature and cultural center, the project demonstrates that industry can be transparent, beautiful, and genuinely beneficial—addressing the realities of local waste disposal while educating the public about sustainable futures.
Bridging Industry, Public Life, and Landscape
The RRRC is engaged in promoting the symbiotic relationship between society and industry and its program is carefully organized to create a unique learning experience for the user while maintaining the utmost functionality and security of the facility. Composed of layers, the building expression is both iconic and contextual.
Ground Level
Upon arriving, visitors notice how TCC DAKA RRRC embraces the landscape and public realm through the podium’s concave indentation and expansive glazing.
Third Floor
As visitors move through the facility, they circulate into successive spaces that are daylit, greenery-infused, and experientially oriented.
Sixth Floor
The industrial-scale, flexible exhibition space enables TCC to showcase research and development innovations amid a striking foreground of mountains, sea, and manufacturing facilities.
7th Floor
The fern garden serves as a dedicated conservation facility, featuring many endangered or rare fern species and highlighting the facility’s ecological mission in Eastern Taiwan.
9th Floor
The layering of forms, allowing for a dramatic outdoor terrace, provides further opportunities for social and educational activity.
Anchoring the TCC Hoping Masterplan
As Phase I of the TCC Hoping Masterplan, RRRC establishes a radical departure from the typical built forms of heavy industry and exhibits the harmonious relationships that can exist between the built, cultural, and natural environments.
The RRRC bridges the Masterplan’s public realm of the park and the industrial zone. Its forms mediates between the ocean, a nearby mountain range, and an existing TCC plant.
Future phases will weave together green spaces — including a public park, outdoor amphitheater, and Water Garden — with key buildings such as a carbon capture facility, seed conservation center, retail village, and the RRRC.
A New Model for Sustainable Industry
At the heart of the RRRC is an industrial waste recovery system that uses high-temperature cement kiln co-processing technology, combined with gasification, to efficiently convert general and industrial waste from nearby towns into alternative raw materials and fuels for production. Rather than hiding industry, the building wraps public spaces around the “box” of the incinerator where visitors have the rare opportunity to observe the process up close—while enjoying panoramic views of the ocean and mountains via a progression of exterior terraces, gardens, and viewing platforms.
Innovative Industrial Design
RRRC is the first facility of its kind in Taiwan, establishing a new benchmark for zero- RRRC is the first facility of its kind in Taiwan, establishing a new benchmark for zero-pollution industrial design. Unlike countries with a surplus of land, Taiwan’s geographic reality demands that waste be processed through incineration. RRRC’s co-processing and gasification system transforms that imperative into a model for sustainable industry, converting waste into alternative fuels and raw materials for cement production while reducing coal consumption and generating almost no waste.
A High-Performance and Sustainable Exterior
RRRC’s sustainability ambitions extend beyond its industrial process and into the wider site and community. The façade itself is a study in low-carbon construction, with UHPC panels and permeable paving both developed and manufactured on-site by TCC from construction waste. Beyond the building envelope, rainwater collection, permeable paving made from construction waste, and extensive native planting root the project in the landscape it celebrates, while Taiwan’s largest seed conservation center positions the facility as an active contributor to regional ecological preservation. Designed to exceed seismic requirements, the building is built for long-term resilience. Situated at the exit of a recently expanded highway adjacent to an existing rest stop, RRRCC further stimulates the local economy by drawing visitors into a unique convergence of commerce, culture, and sustainable industry.
The plinth is clad with TCC’s internally developed Ultra High- Performing Concrete (UHPC) panels, designed with a socketed texture inspired by local indigenous craft.
These patterns, rich in geometric forms including lines, triangles, and diamonds, symbolize the eyes of spirits.
The resulting motif creates a large-scale graphic texture that reinforces movement and fluidity throughout the building.
TCC, as the client, played a vital role as the Low-Carbon Innovative Material Partner, drawing on its expertise in producing some of the world’s lowest carbon concrete. The specific UHPC composition for the project was internally developed, sourced, and manufactured on-site by TCC.
In addition, TCC’s permeable concrete pavement, made from construction waste, was integrated to further support the project’s carbon reduction metrics.
The geometric craft traditions of Hoping further inspire the folded form and perforation patterns of the painted aluminum screens that wrap around the RRRC’s upper levels.
The design of these screens balances outward views with the transmission of daylight, creating an environment well-suited for both the exhibition space and the rare plant fern garden above.
Project Details
RRRC is a waste recovery facility on the coast of Hoping, Taiwan that converts regional waste into alternative fuels and raw materials for cement production, while housing a cultural center, ecological park, and Taiwan’s largest seed conservation center.
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