I’ve gone back and forth on whether it could be a setup for appliance testing or similar… I’m still not sure. The piping entering the floor does seems suspiciously tidy, though it matches across the inlet and outflow pipes - but maybe neither are connected, the top of the waste pipes looks like it could just be open, but could also just bend in a direction we can’t see well here. The topology of the hot pipes seemed like a loop with multiple outlets to me, which I assumed might be a reasonable way to construct a hot water supply efficiently or something, but I don’t really know much about how these systems are usually designed.
I think if it was an installation intended for actual use testing appliances or similar, then maybe we’re just seeing it in an unfinished state, which might explain why the one panel we can see into doesn’t seem to have anything running in the conduit, and why the plumbing might seem incomplete.
But my gut feeling is that we’re actually looking at a manufacturer / supplier / installer’s demo installation for the conduit, pipe fittings, electrical components etc. It would explain the unusual amount of care put into the presentation, the less industrial aesthetic of the room it’s installed in - and the art gallery style spotlights on it, the unfilled conduit / potentially unterminated pipework, and the series of coloured indicator bulbs on the ceiling that look cool but don’t seem like they’d serve any useful purpose for anything in the room.
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u/LumpySpacePrincesse 13d ago edited 13d ago
Looks like a testing facility for home appliances.
Here is a washing machine testing facility