The Henniez Water Factory is situated in the contemporary arcadia; countryside consisting of the protective Forrest, agricultural fields, and habitations situated along the tortuous roads. It is directly related to the natural resource (the spring) and to the local knowledge (the tradition of bottling water). The aim is to construct a production space for bottling the spring water. That includes the space for the undisturbed run of the technological process and some additional facilities in range from the representative to the purely technical delivery spaces.

The concept was conceived during a visit to the existing facility. While the space and process has become increasingly more technological (primarily with regards to efficiency), the water itself remains the same as when bottling originally began over 100 years ago. In fact, Henniez goes to great lengths to ensure that nothing happens to the water from the time it leaves its source 0.5 miles away to the time it is bottled.

From this, the administration block was conceived as concrete (representative of the permanence of Henniez and to give the building an appropriate response to the street) and the production space was designed to be transparent and tread lightly on the rolling landscape.

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