Mets Energy SAL Factory

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Mets Energy SAL Factory

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Industrial › Factory

Our task in this project was a twofold job. First, to design the factory building which was designated to be steel structure and containing the main heavy equipment and production process. Second, design the worker’s building attached to the factory and the administration building. Our proposal was to integrate all buildings into a single volume in a way that responds to the irregular lot boundary geometry.
The main factory building was the main volume which was subdivided visually into two horizontal volumes to tone down its mass. The worker’s building was as a transition volume from the large factory volume to the much smaller administration building volume. The workers’ building façade was animated by transferring the vertical circulation in-between its floors to outside thus adding movement dynamism to its façade.
Finally, the administration building was linked to the rest of volumes by means of an external façade that extended from the workers’ building external skin, and simultaneously creating protection for the building.