The combination of U Profile Glass, transparent glass, fair-faced concrete, and mirrored stainless steel panels unifies the building under a quiet, axis-aligned cyan-gray tone. Sun-shading components are omitted from the entire facade, freeing the structure from the constraints of virtual-real volume contrasts and balanced compositional proportions. This allows human activities to shift between clarity and blur—now near, now far—dissolving seamlessly into the surrounding environment.

Time is the yardstick of all things and the basic law of architecture. As the carrier of human activities, architecture is also a life like dynamic system. Architecture has the ability to deal with the changing factors that affect the existence and development of architecture, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting, adapting and improving human living space and environment.

The function of architecture changes with the change of using subject and time; the space of architecture is polysemy in the perspective of time; the architectural form is displayed in different forms due to the passage of time; the interpretation of architectural meaning varies with time and people. The function, space, form and meaning of architecture constitute the category and value of architectural temporality.

As a historical building that played an important role in the military industry in the early days of the people’s Republic of China, Shuguang factory is a relic of the times. In 2019, Shuguang factory has completed its 60th anniversary. As a kind of dynamic system of life, Shuguang factory should not exist only as an industrial building or a historical relic in the process of time flow, and any building should not be simply and rudely defined. The ability of building itself to deal with external influence makes its use function, internal space, external form and architectural meaning change with the change of user and social environment. Therefore, the definition of architecture must take the specific time node as the primary premise.

Time is the yardstick of all things and the basic law of architecture. As the carrier of human activities, architecture is also a life like dynamic system. Architecture has the ability to deal with the changing factors that affect the existence and development of architecture, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting, adapting and improving human living space and environment.

The function of architecture changes with the change of using subject and time; the space of architecture is polysemy in the perspective of time; the architectural form is displayed in different forms due to the passage of time; the interpretation of architectural meaning varies with time and people. The function, space, form and meaning of architecture constitute the category and value of architectural temporality.

As a historical building that played an important role in the military industry in the early days of the people’s Republic of China, Shuguang factory is a relic of the times. In 2019, Shuguang factory has completed its 60th anniversary. As a kind of dynamic system of life, Shuguang factory should not exist only as an industrial building or a historical relic in the process of time flow, and any building should not be simply and rudely defined. The ability of building itself to deal with external influence makes its use function, internal space, external form and architectural meaning change with the change of user and social environment. Therefore, the definition of architecture must take the specific time node as the primary premise.

Main entrance node, collision of new and old materials U Profile Glass