Location: Richmond, California
Typology: Research - Industrial
Architect: Albert Kahn
Construction: 1930-31
Main Building Size: ~500,000 sqft
Site Size: ~ 50 Acres
Refurbished by: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, 2009
Located next to the Santa Fe Channel off San Francisco Bay, the complex was designed as a Ford assembly line factory, to accept parts and distribute the assembled automobiles either by rail or ship, and used the theories Kahn developed of "daylighted" factories "all under one roof".
Albert Kahn Associates of Detroit designed the shell of the building, but Ford's Power and Construction Department designed the layout of the automobile assembly equipment for the plant.
