 |  | In the early days of industrialism more than a century ago, an industrial plant often contained an imposing main building – with more than just offices – and in addition to that a Klondike of odd shaped building volumes budding and deliberately hidden behind the dignified main building, but distinctly signaling the nature and purpose of the factory’s activities.
In Denmark as well as abroad you will find surprisingly much excellent architecture hidden in these firmly built administrative buildings and production buildings clearly indicating what is manufactured and how the process is conducted. Often a fundamental beauty in itself.
To day most industrial plants are made as precise box shapes often of confusing dimensions where only the size indicates the industrial purpose of the building and where the nature of the product may be guessed from a short glimpse of the company name, caught through the corner of the eye while passing quickly on the motorway.
Often the message to the outside world is reduced to the design of the entrance and the degree of elegance behind the reception’s plate-glass windows, leather furniture and orchids or more prosaic linoleum and house plants.
Luckily some industrial plants are still influenced by their purpose in such a way that it mirrors the process activities regarding height, chimneys cyclones, cranes or conveyors – just to mention a few examples.
ISC has been involved in all kinds of industrial plants erected worldwide and adapted to the local technology and traditions. Important budding on old plants, anonymous screening of extensive production plants and – not least – functional and highly specialized plants.
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