This creates a direct link between the old structure and the new, while adding a new material and another texture that is pleasing to the touch. With this detail, the cladding and the main structure become one, reducing the complexity of the building, which is reflected in the budget as well as the final expression. Myhrwold and Rasmussen engineered the original pumpstations from 1966 to be unsentimental and raw in their materiality, and the vertical relief of the concrete façades reminds us of the surrounding ploughed furrows of the fields, and profiles of the soil that control the run of the river.

By building on this design, the intention is to strengthen the anchoring of the building in the local history of controlling the lie of the land. Project information