We designed a new warehouse for our friends from Speedy!
The site is anchored in the industrial zone of Dobrich, but also intimately tied to the surrounding agricultural landscape.
The building’s design aims to demonstrate that industrial architecture can add value to the landscape and improve the quality of the workplace. This project was a great opportunity to rethink the relationship between architecture and nature, putting man back in the middle. The functions of the warehouse relate to the landscape without mimicking it directly.
Thus the building was with an easily recognisable semi-industrial identity but adding a little spark to it. Within the constraints characterising a low cost construction, this identity is supported by couple unique aspects.
One is how natural light is introduced in a storage facility that for functional and security reasons necessarily has to be closed. A glass and sheet metal horizontal window is put on the access of each premises, which acts also as a natural ventilation element and an identifies each storage.
The storage entrances are highlighted both by the used color (yellow) and the protective awning.
The office takes up the whole high of the structure and is located in the south-west angle on the edifice, offering a naturally light, comfortable space.
As for the façade, it consists of a single material, thermal panels, fixed to a prefabricated metal structure.
The project is infused with a strong desire for simplicity.
Designing buildings for people to move through them is one thing. Designing buildings that need to house inventory, allow for vehicles such as forklifts and loaders, as well as people to be able to move freely through them, is quite another. But we accepted the challenge and we’re very happy with the result!
The site is anchored in the industrial zone of Dobrich, but also intimately tied to the surrounding agricultural landscape.
The building’s design aims to demonstrate that industrial architecture can add value to the landscape and improve the quality of the workplace. This project was a great opportunity to rethink the relationship between architecture and nature, putting man back in the middle. The functions of the warehouse relate to the landscape without mimicking it directly.
Thus the building was with an easily recognisable semi-industrial identity but adding a little spark to it. Within the constraints characterising a low cost construction, this identity is supported by couple unique aspects.
One is how natural light is introduced in a storage facility that for functional and security reasons necessarily has to be closed. A glass and sheet metal horizontal window is put on the access of each premises, which acts also as a natural ventilation element and an identifies each storage.
The storage entrances are highlighted both by the used color (yellow) and the protective awning.
The office takes up the whole high of the structure and is located in the south-west angle on the edifice, offering a naturally light, comfortable space.
As for the façade, it consists of a single material, thermal panels, fixed to a prefabricated metal structure.
The project is infused with a strong desire for simplicity.
Designing buildings for people to move through them is one thing. Designing buildings that need to house inventory, allow for vehicles such as forklifts and loaders, as well as people to be able to move freely through them, is quite another. But we accepted the challenge and we’re very happy with the result!