Salle des Compresseurs

January 2022

Abandoned industrial sites often offer rather unexpected color palettes.
The place visited today is no exception to this rule. Between the mosses of an almost fluorescent green and the machines painted in different colors, the Salle des Compresseurs (“Compressor Room”) is far from a dreary and drab place. Obviously, time has done its work there and the site is doomed to disappear. Nature has already started and some walls are already completely covered by vegetation.
Adjoining the room, a large hangar used to store raw materials from the neighboring coking plant. As for the compressors, these were used to compress the gases coming from the same coking plant, in order to reuse them. There are four massive compressors.

The place can be dangerous if left unchecked, as in any industrial site.
Not only can the floor be tricky, but the smells you can smell there quickly make it clear that it's best not to hang around here too much.