The new logistics centre, located on the E45 motorway at Haderslev,
supplies all of the clothing company Bestseller?s boutiques, right across
Europe. The
centre has been planned to occupy three parallel bands surrounding a main
avenue. One of these bands contains the main entrance, office and staff
facilities, together with an area with loading ramps for trucks, while the
second contains an automated sorting facility, and the third fully-automated
mini-load stores. The planned layout provides the most flexible arrangement,
and allows for a possible future expansion of the logistics centre to triple
size, i.e. 150.000 m2. The
idea was to create an industrial building that would go beyond the typical
standardised solutions for logistic facilities, and create a building with a
strong identity that would add an experiential quality to its surrounding. From
the motorway can be seen the centre's two tall mini-load warehouses, each
measuring approximately 6,000 m2, towering up as distinctive silhouettes. They
resemble sculptures in the landscape, with simple facades clad in narrow,
vertical strips of pine - an enormous construction which nonetheless, thanks to
its wooden facade, seems human and approachable. The warehouses have for
example transparent gables which provide a glimpse of the cranes inside at
work.
There has been a strong focus on sustainability in the planning, using
the British environmental standard BREEAM Industrial, including recycled
materials in the construction process, large-scale green roofs, low-energy
machine equipment and the use of renewable energy such as solar and biodiesel.
As a first for this type of building, it is rated Energy class 1 according to
Danish codes, and the automated sorting plant has been optimized to reduce
energy consumption by 50%.
Throughout the building, emphasis has been placed on creating pleasant
and safe workplaces, allowing daylight to enter, and on creating an intimacy
with the landscape and the views, including the surrounding site covering
approximately 500,000 m2 in all which has been designed to form a natural area
with oak woods, wetlands and meadows with grazing cows as a fertile environment
for a rich flora and fauna.