Ice Cream Research Facility Black Mountains, Welsh Building Images, Architect
Ice Cream Research Facility Black Mountains, Wales
9 Nov 2020
Ice Cream Research Building in the Black Mountains
Design: Hyde + Hyde Architects
Hyde + Hyde Architects were approached in winter 2018 to develop a design for a new high quality, contextual product development building within the foothills of the Black Mountains, Wales.

Background + Landscape
Where you work and what you make is inexplicably linked. The Black Mountain range is the backdrop to the working environment, a landscape forged and formed through glacial action over the ages.

The small family business has developed an international brand and reputation, and now finds itself in this beautiful location where landscape and work intertwine. Whilst the existing factory and production building embodies a tried and tested formulaic response, practical, simplistic, efficient and introverted. The new brief for a ?Research Facility? calls for a new symbolism to emerge that is both local and global in its outlook.
In the distance from the site a mountain landscape can be seen, inside the factory Ice cream is made. Conveniently and serendipitously both processes involve ice.

Symbolism: Brand image becomes Architecture
Depth of connection is in the coldness of the product and the mountain symbolism. Hyde + Hyde Architects have interpreted these narratives into a vivid and iconic skyline diagram of perfectly white cascading forms that ext...