Bombay Sapphire Distillery - floor plan

This production facility is a part of a masterplan designed to gift vitality to the bank of the River Test and its surroundings, which include a series of formerly derelict buildings- some of them historical.

The pre-existent building in which the factory housed itself was formerly a water-powered paper mill; since the river was the binding element of the masterplan, it was decided that the project would have to dialogue with it in some way. The crystal structures annexed to the existing building manage to link the project to the river bank in a visual and practical way, as both structures are connected to the building and aid the ventilation of residual fumes and heat product of the distillation process. Each one of the glass structures hosts a variety of exotic plants that benefit from the different degrees of heat they get from the inside: one of them harbors mediterranean plants, the other tropical vegetation.