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The first thing every driver sees
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Jan Hansen Transport is a transport company based in Holsted, Denmark. Its building works hard: Numbered loading doors, a wide concrete yard, a black warehouse with the company name in white above the doors.
But for a company that lives on the road, the building is also the business card. It is the first thing a driver sees when they pull into the yard, and the first thing a customer sees when they come by to talk about a job.
The office block at the front now has a face worth arriving at. It is wrapped in warm brown slats on both floors, right around the corner.
The brown on this building
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A wood facade without a maintenance plan
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A business building has to look as good in year ten as it did on day one, and nobody wants facade upkeep on the to-do list. Ordinary timber cannot promise that. It needs sanding and staining, and boards warp.
Aluwood is built the other way round. The slats are thermally treated Nordic pine, heated above 212°C so they resist rot, fungus and insects. Behind them, an aluminum backing holds every slat straight, so the lines stay crisp. There is nothing to maintain — oil it once a year only if you want to keep the original brown, or let it weather to silver-gray.
The install suits a working yard, too. The panels arrived on pallets, ready to fit, and went up from a lift onto battens over a weather membrane. A quicker, simpler install means fewer billable hours on site.
Warm wood against black, from a long way off
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Today the building reads from across the fields. Black window frames and a black roof edge make the brown look even warmer, and up close there is real grain, the odd knot, and a deep shadow line between every slat.
It is still a transport building, with its loading doors and its yard. It just looks like a company that takes care of things.
If your own building is mostly doors and yard, maybe the office is the place to start. A sample is the easiest way to see the brown in your own light.
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