Hunter Douglas Plant

Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz

HUNTER DOUGLAS PLANT

Mathias Klotz

ARCHITECTS
Mathias Klotz

 MANUFCATURERS
Parklex Prodema

AREA
37000.0m2

YEAR
2007

LOCATION
Santiago , Chile

CATEGORY
Factory

Text description provided by architect.

The project for Hunter Douglas Chile is a combination of new work, recycling existing spaces along with creating a reorganization and future development plan of an industrial plant that fabricates metal facades, persian blinds and curtains.

Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz

The plant has had an inorganic growth, due to an original unrealized plan to relocate, opting instead to buy a series of storehouses from a neighboring company.

The project was to establish a general master plan for the complex that considers future development, gives a new face to the existing storehouses and incorporates the new addition of a cafeteria for 600 workers and executive offices for the commercial sector.

Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz

The project considers the development in stages, first to renovate the storehouse at the entrance (a warehouse of 80x60 meters) with dark panels on its four facades incorporating a cover of panels that move with the wind to the view it gives to the street in order to give life to a volume of such large dimensions who by its nature must be opaque.

For the cafeteria and executive offices new body was created so that the first program serves as support for the second, achieving two open plans with free views to the garden area that has been incorporated en various sectors of the plan in order to better the overall environment of such an industrial program.

Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz

The volume is made up of two bodies, in which the principal is supported stands on the ground and is covered in panels the color of steel, containing the program of the kitchen and cafeteria over which rests a volume of wood that makes up the offices.

The garden has been incorporated like an element that gives continuity while also serving as an extension of the cafeteria.

Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz


Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz
Hunter Douglas Plant
© Mathias Klotz


Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant


Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant


Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant


Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant
Hunter Douglas Plant