PROJECT FEATURE Salt Architects
Behind the brown face brick façade, the blower hall rises higher in red face brick expressed as a masonry box. Circulation of staff throughout the plant was carefully considered. Staff are physically working around all areas of the plant in eighthour shifts around the clock. The locker rooms, laundry, and MCC rooms were placed on the ground floor to limit treading dirt from the grounds into the building. The cleaner clerical functions are separated from the grounds on the first floor and can be accessed after donning clean outfits in the ground floor locker rooms. The laboratory is used by both office and ground staff, testing samples collected all over the plant. The laboratory was placed on the furthest end of the first-floor gallery and a spacious secondary access point was introduced at the end of the gallery with a wide concrete stair and external balcony peeking through the brown face brick skin. This doubles as the escape door at the western end of the building.
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