Factory Works is an architecture and design studio. We design bespoke homes, furniture, and objects. Our work moves between drawing and making, between technology and craft, exploring how context, form, material, and light shape one another.

The Roast House is conceived as a refined industrial structure for the storage and handling of coffee, located within the exposed landscape of north Cornwall and designed for a local coffee manufacturer. The project explores beauty in industrial materials through a restrained architectural language that prioritises clarity, proportion, and material honesty. Expressed as a simple elongated volume, the building’s form is driven directly by operational requirements, structure, and environmental control rather than applied formal gestures. A lightweight, translucent envelope wraps a primary steel frame, allowing soft daylight to penetrate the interior while moderating the building’s presence within the surrounding landscape. By day the façade reads as calm and utilitarian; by night it becomes a gently illuminated container that reveals the rhythm of structure and use within. Industrial elements including steel framing, cladding panels, roller shutters, and concrete ground planes are left exposed and carefully detailed, reinforcing the building as a functional object shaped by necessity. Set against the rugged terrain of north Cornwall, the project balances infrastructural efficiency with a quiet sensitivity to place, demonstrating how industrial architecture can achieve an enduring and composed presence through simplicity, light, and material integrity.