At the initial stage of the project the aim was to establish a pool which would include all accessible strata of the installation in order to open up plausible channels of conservation and renovation. Research carried out within this context gave tangible results such as follows: the traces of the first project prepared in the 1910s are still to be seen, yet the tight decisions taken initially were loosened among the mass of industrial structures that had formed over the course of 40 years; formal violations had been made via pragmatic moves; though the stylistic characters and construction systems of the building groups, which could be generalized as the engine room, the boiler room and staff housing, were decisively dissociated from one another, both sets of buildings had the same typical characteristics of the industrialized world at the time they were built. As more time was spent on the site and as we went deeper in our surveys, these inputs, combined with the sense of place that developed spontaneously, emerged as valuable clues as to the design decisions for renovation and conservation