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THE INTERIOR STREET
When one walks around in the interior street, one moves between two building traditions: on one side the old building from 1884, and on the other, the new one from 1999. The roof structure is in glass and steel and has natural ventilation, which accentuates the feeling of a street. The rest of the building is fully climate controlled.
By reason of its status as the building’s communication nerve, the large street is a meeting point for people and stories. Here there are such communal functions as canteen, reception and a lecture hall. The rest of the building consists almost only of offices and corridors, where green, open kitchen cores and red staircases are used as interior landmarks.
MANY LAYERS OF LIGHT IN THE ROOF
In the loft of the old building the architects have tried to preserve the factory’s original atmosphere by keeping the old rafters and tie beams. It is so high to the roof in the offices beneath it that there are no fewer than three rows of windows on top of each other. Seated, one has a view down
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from the 5th floor through a small facade window at knee height. Above, there are three VELUX windows, one over the other, in a band.
“The immense loft height offers the possibility of roof windows in several layers, which ensures good light in the large offices and helps to accentuate the loft’s fine spatial qualities,” explains architect Kurt Jensen.
THE DREAM OF A BUILDING FULL OF SWEETS
Together with the loft, the dream about the confectionery factory manifests itself like a reminiscence from the past through two original staircases with old, pale tiles and ornamentation. There, it has not been possible to remove the smell of liquorice. Otherwise, the working environment today is odourless, the sweet things having been replaced by IT secrets and impenetrable security systems – in a future-orientated commercial building based on the principle of flexible workplaces and great mobility. The building is a fine fusion of old and new, both as a building and in a town planning context.
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