View across first floor with staircase to ground floor. IBC Innovation Factory, Kolding, Denmark. Architect: schmidt hammer lass
IBC's Innovation Factory started life in 1978 as a groundbreaking factory for paint manufacturer GORI. It was the first plant in Denmark to unite production and management under one roof, and one of the first in Scandinavia to use laminated wood beams to span a huge, double-storey, open-plan building. Art and leisure were integral to the design, which incorporated badminton courts and ping-pong tables, and paint bottling tanks decorated by Jean Dewasne. When production moved away from Kolding, IBC commissioned schmidt hammer lassen architects to convert the factory to an executive training centre. The architects aimed to enhance the building’s existing qualities of space and light by using six elements – fire, water, greenery, light, sound and air – to stimulate users’ senses. At the heart of the building, they inserted a teaching facility in Douglas pine. The structure, which seems to float above a surface of water, incorporates an auditorium, places for open study, an amphitheatre.
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