If you notice that this reinforced concrete building is still so complete and solid after more than 80 years of vicissitudes, you can't help but admire the quality of the building. You know, the daily use intensity of such slaughterhouses is incomparable to ordinary buildings. Is this still a humid and polluted working environment? At that time, the contractor of this building was a China construction company, and cement and other building materials were imported.
1933 The former Industrial Bureau of Shanghai Ministry of Industry and Information Technology? Slaughterhouse, designed by British architects, is now a municipal-level protected building (Grade 4). The building covers an area of about 30,000 square meters and is a five-story reinforced concrete structure. The facade along the street is a small hollow lattice window, which is said to be ancient Rome? Basilica style. Adjacent buildings are raw meat market and cold storage building. Was it called at that time? The first slaughterhouse in the Far East? . There is a building of similar size and style in the United States and Britain.
This is the ramp upstairs. This used to be for animals such as cattle and sheep to go to the gate of hell. We must bypass it.
This kind of building structure seems so strange, in fact, it is caused by comprehensive consideration of the slaughter walkway, slaughter working face, ventilation and lighting, sanitary isolation, waterway and other factors in the building. Not for? Romantic? It is necessary to design the path of sending cattle to the butcher's knife so amazing, and deliberately create a fascinating magical film scene.
Here is a special explanation: if it was a cow in Shanghai in the 1930 s, it came to this dreamland? Slaughterhouse But don't get cut off! Because in this modern slaughterhouse, cows are never killed? Blood blade? , with electric shock! Of course, this is not kindness, but efficiency.
In retrospect, British architects must have spent a lot of brains planning such a maze to balance the relationship between function and structure. So, what are the so-called buildings here today? Creative industrial park? , too? Make the best use of everything? All right. Otherwise, such a building structure is really suitable for living and adapting.
The picture shows that this is a building specially for sick cows? The brig? . At present, such a simple isolation room cannot guarantee the isolation effect of cattle carrying infectious diseases. You know, some deadly infectious diseases caused by people and animals are very dangerous! You just need to think about why the trade friction between countries is often related to the high threshold of epidemic prevention in meat trading.
What can also attract people's attention is that these door panels and door parts should be the original ones preserved in the early years, right?
After 1843, with the continuous expansion of Shanghai concession, the population increased. The demand for meat products has increased sharply. At that time, the facilities of small folk workshops were poor and the sanitary conditions were poor, and epidemics often occurred. Without antibiotics and other medical means, many deadly infectious diseases caused by people and livestock are very dangerous and difficult to control!
In order to meet the market demand and the health of concession companies, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which is responsible for managing concession companies, has built slaughterhouses before, but it is far from meeting the demand. 189 1 The Ministry of Industry has set up a slaughterhouse here. 1930 was expanded into such an industrialized slaughterhouse, designed by British architects, and its peculiar internal architectural structure really met the functional requirements. The new slaughterhouse was completed in June 1933 1 1. At that time, it was called the first in the Far East and the third in the world.
The picture shows that the three-story reinforced concrete building with baroque style is opposite to the slaughterhouse waste treatment workshop, which deals with the incineration of sick animals, waste meat, viscera, hair and other wastes. There is a high-pressure steamer in the towering chimney in the middle of the roof, which can melt anthrax and other dangerous livestock carcasses, and can also process soap, feed, fertilizer and so on. When the slaughterhouse was built here, the pollution in the process of slaughtering production and the chimney for treating the source of garbage can be imagined, and the environmental pressure on the surrounding residents can be imagined.
Caption: Now there are some shops in the building, and advertising companies and other copywriting design units work here. Although it is a rest day, there seem to be few tourists here.
According to the available materials, the slaughterhouse slaughtered 300 cows, 500 sheep, 200 calves and 300 pigs every day that year. After the animals enter the site, they will have a 24-hour rest after inspection, and then enter the electric shock treatment room from the multi-storey special ramp and trap door in the building. In this way, the slaughtered livestock will not panic because of nervousness, and the toxins discharged from the body will also be reduced, which can improve the taste of meat.
After the founding of New China, it was still a meat processing factory. 1970 changed to Shanghai Great Wall Biochemical Pharmaceutical Factory. In 2004, Hongkou district government listed it as a memorial site of district historical sites; In June 2005, it was listed as an excellent historical building by the municipal government. In 2007, on the basis of retaining the original building, it was rearranged and converted into? 1933 old factory? Creative industrial park. Most of the buildings are creative centers, advertising companies, leisure bars, tea art and other places. But according to the author's observation, there are not many people visiting. This is a quiet and relaxing place.
Speaking of Hongkou, there are still many public buildings built by the concession bureau, such as the famous triangle food market and the large cold storage along Lu Yang in the Eastern Han Dynasty (after liberation, it was an important main cold storage to ensure the supply of non-staple food such as meat, poultry, eggs and fish in Shanghai).
But now it's all torn down. In addition, the architectural features and landscapes left in the earlier years in the area around the Tilanqiao Bridge in Hongkou have been demolished in these years! Almost all the warehouse buildings and office buildings in the original port area along the Huangpu River of Dongzhi Branch Road were demolished! In the meantime, some good quality buildings are really interesting. There is a saying: architecture is a solidified history. Look at the old towns of major cities in other countries. How can there be such a scale of demolition and construction?
The picture shows that the old city of Shanghai has its own unique flavor. The young watercolor painter is working? 1933 workshop? Sketch nearby.
The author thinks that he quickly paved the tone of the picture with the technique of large brush strokes and dry-wet separation, and knows that this must be a master of many years of sketch techniques. Is it because he has some special feelings for old Shanghai? So, should we keep the ancient city of Shanghai in front of us more?