Copper in architecture awards 12.These awards are the 12th iteration of an event celebrating the use of copper in architecture in all its various forms. The jury this year was chaired by the editor of The Architectural Review The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine published in London since 1896. Articles cover the built environment which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism as well as theory of these subjects. , Paul Finch. It comprised Laurence Bain of Bain & Bevington; Craig Casci of Hamilton Associates; Stas Louca of Glas Architects; and Gordon Talbot of Ian Ritchie Architects Ian Ritchie Architects is a leading British architectural practice, founded in London in 1981 by Ian Ritchie CBE RA. Ritchie also co-founded the engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) with Peter Rice in Paris in 1981. . The judges welcomed the range and quality of the schemes submitted, though noting that some of the photography and presentation did not do the schemes justice. The winning, highly commended and commended schemes were considered excellent examples of designs which were inherently interesting, and which exploited the attributes of copper to the full. It was hoped that the expansion of the awards to encourage a wide European entry would continue on future occasions. WINNER, EUROPE Laajasalo Church, Helsinki Kari Jarvinen Ja Merja Nieminen The church's main areas are on the street corner to be prominent; the copper-clad steeple is separate from the church to complete the approach to the building. The parish wing, with its everyday activities, is placed alongside the street. The large facades of the halls are clad in green-patinated copper sheets, with strips of 150, 200 and 250mm varying at random. The brown-patinated light towers on the yard side shine like lighthouses at night; during the day, they let in sunlight. The height and character of the interiors vary, highlighting each functional space; from the low, smooth ceiling in the foyer, to the taller pergola pergola Garden walk or terrace typically formed by two rows of columns or posts roofed with an open framework of beams and cross rafters over which plants are trained. Its purpose is to provide a foundation on which climbing plants can be viewed and to give shade. hall between interior and exterior, beyond which is the luminous church hall. Interior surfaces are of pine and birch plywood boarding and acoustic wood louvres. The floors are made of oil-treated pine planks, giving the impression of a music box or wooden container. Wall and ceiling structures are made of glulam in the form of pillars and stiffening stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff boards. The artwork of cross-end cuts of wood in the altar is partly framed by copper sheets. Specialist contractor: Outokumpu/Levykaksikko. Photographs: by Jussi Tiainen except night view which is by Arno de la Chapelle DeLaChapelle is a French independent car Builder. Founded in the early '70s by Xavier De La Chapelle, the brand is a rare Bugatti replica-maker. The De La Chapelle Family have an historic Automobile legacy with the Stimula Marque. Judges' comments A beautiful church where copper has been used in 'strata', almost like a cliff face, with soft colours and controlled tones that will develop over time, adding to the harmonious relationship with its natural landscape setting. In contrast to Feilden Clegg Bradley's Queen Mary Queen Mary, Queen Marie, or Queen Maria may refer to: Queens Britain England
striate, striated having streaks or striae, e.g. striate retinopathy. striate border see brush border. surfaces creating an extreme horizontality and tactile quality. The light, airy interior spaces also possess a strong quality and all the materials used blend harmoniously. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EUROPE Shortlisted schemes Popstage Mezz, Netherlands, Erick van Egeraat; Debrecen University building, Hungary, Janos Megyik; St Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel, Finland, Sanaksenaho Architects; Ice Hockey ice hockey: see hockey, ice. ice hockey Game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates. The object is to drive a puck (a small, hard rubber disk) into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick, thus scoring one point. Federation building, Switzerland, Tilla Theus und Partner JOINT WINNER, UK Westfield Student Village, Queen Mary University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies Feilden Clegg Bradley Westfield Student Village is one of the largest new student residence schemes in Britain, and the largest in London, with 995 bed spaces in flats and maisonettes. The scheme includes ancillary facilities with a canal side cafe/bar, shop, common room and a laundry. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Student Village comprises six buildings constructed in two phases; three four-storey brick courtyards and a brick pavilion, which formed phase I of the work, and two copper-clad buildings on the 'exposed' public edges of the site, which formed phase 2. The disposition of the buildings creates landscaped spaces with distinct characters and levels of privacy, off a hierarchy of routes. The copper cladding package was at the time the largest subcontract of its kind in Europe, with an approximate area of 9000[m.sup.2] of both pre-oxidised and pre-patinated copper. The copper cladding forms the main cladding material for the two taller perimeter blocks to the campus, it complements and contrasts with the more solid brick elevations of the lower courtyard blocks. Specialist contractor: T & P Roofing Photographs: Peter Cook [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments This substantial development seems unexpected in its waterfront, park-side context, generating a serene but urban environment. The design excels in synthesising budgetary restrictions, a tight brownfield site and other constraints. Copper is intrinsic to the 'honest', thin-skin approach to facade design that enables a break-up of mass and a fenestration fenestration /fen·es·tra·tion/ (fen?es-tra´shun) 1. the act of perforating or condition of being perforated. 2. regime reflecting the discipline of accommodation requirements. Everything fits with an impressive dimensional rigour rig·our n. Chiefly British Variant of rigor. rigour or US rigor Noun 1. . The project shows that, even with the budgetary constraints of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , architecture of a high quality is possible for student dwellings, using the qualities of copper to contribute to a mixed urban landscape reflecting this university's admirable aspirations. UK Shortlisted schemes Caldicott Performing Arts Building, Slouch slouch v. slouched, slouch·ing, slouch·es v.intr. 1. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture. 2. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat. v. , Buschow Henley; Perth Concert Hall Perth Concert Hall may refer to:
JOINT WINNER, UK Spiral Cafe, Birmingham Marks Barfield Architects Located in St Martin's Square, the new public square and centrepiece of Birmingham's new Bullring development, the Spiral Cafe is a distinctive shell-like enclosure inspired by the Fibonacci principles of growth in nature. It unites the timeless principles of geometry with modern construction techniques. The Cafe is formed by eight curved structural ribs which enclose the seating and servery A room used for the preparation and serving of food other than a kitchen. This is the room where servers complete the final touches of food preparation remote from a kitchen. space. A frame attached to these ribs forms a rear annex for storage. The ribs pass beneath the level of the floor, into a glazed pit emerging to form the bar separating the servery from the public space of the cafe. The superstructure superstructure /su·per·struc·ture/ (soo´per-struk?chur) the overlying or visible portion of a structure. su·per·struc·ture n. A structure above the surface. of the cafe is painted plasma cut mild steel plate, connected by CHS (Cylinder Head Sector) An earlier method of addressing a hard disk by referencing all three physical elements of the drive. It was superseded by logical block addressing (see LBA). mild steel sections for lateral support The right of a landowner to have his or her property naturally upheld by the adjoining land or the soil beneath. The adjoining owner has the duty not to alter the land, such as by lowering it, so as to cause the support to be weakened or removed. . This is skinned with a plywood timber decking using a warm roof construction, and clad externally entirely with post-patinated copper clad between the ribs with an SS capping piece along each rib line. The cafe was clad in a relatively traditional manner. After the external copper work had been completed, Andy Elton, an artist specialising in patination, was commissioned to apply a coloured finish to the external cladding, resulting in a rich, textured and durable exterior. Contractor: Thomas Vale [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments Commissioned to add focus to an overly open public space, this coffee shop is an artistic response at a modest scale to a challenging, major urban site. It fully exploits a geometric idea to generate an intriguing form that is nonetheless functional. This is a simple but difficult-to-realise concept, delivered in a way that is not cliched cli·chéd also cliched adj. Having become stale or commonplace through overuse; hackneyed: "In the States, it might seem a little clichéd; in Paris, it seems fresh and original" . The spiral form maximises the architectural characteristics of copper and the surface patination treatment is beautifully handled, resulting from collaboration with an artist. The rustic surface feel of the copper provides a marked contrast with the nearby Future Systems' building and works well against the neighbouring stone church. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMMENDED, UK Maggie's Highlands Cancer Care Centre, Inverness Page & Park Architects Charles Jencks Landscape Design Maggie's Highlands Cancer Caring Centre at Raigmore Hospital Raigmore Hospital is a hospital in Inverness, Scotland. It is the main hospital in the Highland Council Area. Whilst there has been a hospital on the site since 1941, the current hospital has been in development since 1970. , Inverness is a one and a half storey copper-clad timber frame building designed to reflect and harmonise with the adjacent landscape, designed by Charles Jencks. The building aims to provide a supportive and homely environment for the users of the centre--essentially anyone with or involved with cancer. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The building is conceived as an inversion of one of the vesicashaped spiralling landscape mounds near the building, combining to create a trilogy of interconnected forms. The walls angle away from the vertical by 10 degrees and wrap around to create a rising spiral shape that can be read from both inside and outside. The external envelope is clad predominantly in pre-patinated copper panels, wrapping around the spiral in rising 'bands', responding to and emphasising the spiralling shape and echoing the stepped form seen on the paths of the landscape mounds. The copper cladding is brought inside the building to blur the perceived boundaries between inside and outside, while clearly identifying the basic spiral form. Specialist contractor: W. B. Watson [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments An iconic building making dramatic use of copper, this project has a clear intention to integrate architecture with landscape, although the transition was considered by some as a little too hard-edged to allow the merging of building and its surroundings. Nevertheless, this is without doubt architecture as therapeutic environment. COMMENDED, EUROPE Service Centre, Munich Staab Architekten Like a bar of copper, the building unassumingly crouches on its site. Its precise, simple shape, and its copper facade make it blend into the colours of the Theresienwiese. The facade will accumulate patina patina (păt`ənə), coating of carbonate of copper on articles of copper or bronze, formed after long exposure to a moist atmosphere or burial in the earth. to match the colour of the slope behind it. The only aspect of the building's facade that reflects its inner workings is the surface pattern of closed and perforated copper sheeting. Areas used for movement are glazed, and then protected from sunlight and vandalism by a perforated metal facade. Specialist contractor: Regensburger Metallbau. Photographs by Werner Huthmacher. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments A bold, monolithic building, forged from a perforated copper screen, which could be considered as a bar of gold in the landscape, particularly intriguing to visitors. A rigorously executed abstract statement, this is an extreme solution which works well in its sensitive location, possessing a calmness which modifies our sense of scale. ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT DES IGN IGN Ignored (Status) IGN Institut Geographique National IGN Ignition IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) IGN Imagine Games Network IGN In-Game Name (gaming) AWARDS, UK Another category enjoying an increase in entrants from UK schools of architecture, generally with a very high quality of presentation exhibiting innovative concepts. From the ten entries, three were shortlisted. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WINNER Water Bottling Factory, Oslo Poppy Kirkwood, the Bartlett, London This project is located next to the Maridalsvannet Lake in Norway. The lake supplies Oslo with drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. , therefore public access is prohibited. The programme is to make the water accessible at this source. The building, a water-bottling factory and public pavilion, is a contemporary well, drawing people to the site. The intention is to provide a visual register of water on the site by staining the ground. The approach is to design the 'stain plain' and then investigate how to control corrosion on the surface of the building to produce the desired staining effects. Copper is chosen as the material for the ribbon facade which weaves in and out of the building. The project highlights the potential of copper as both a 'responsive' and 'active' building material: copper provides an opportunity to manipulate the building fabric to create an architecture that continues to evolve after completion. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments This project stands out in its use of copper as an intrinsic part of the programme for the building, not just as a cladding material. It addresses current architectural interest in the environment and seeks to make water and its treatment a subject of interest not secrecy. COMMENDED Pavilion Cu29 Stefan Krakhofer, University of East London (body, education) University of East London - (UEL) A UK University with six academic Faculties: Design and The Built Environment, East London Business School, Institute Of Health and Rehabilitation, Faculty Of Science, Social Sciences and Technology. http://uel.ac.uk/. The aim was to reduce all structural elements Structural elements are used in structural analysis to simplify the structure which is to be analysed. Structural elements can be linear, surfaces or volumes. Linear elements:
Judges' comments Excellent, sophisticated visualisations make this elegant building easy to imagine in the flesh. Copper and glazing form a successfully resolved surface pattern where structure and skin can be seen to coordinate in a clever way. This is a pavilion that, if built, would deserve to be experienced in its own right. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMMENDED The Thames Wharf Bird Hide, west London West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with Heathrow Airport and many of James Curtis, Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England. Overview The University has roots in Oxford that go back to 1865 (when it was known as the Oxford School of Art). The present student body is 19,000. The bird hide sits in water in west London opposite the London Wetland Centre, acting as a calm place for the observation of albatrosses. The building had to appreciate existing conservation issues. Copper was used to allow the hide to act as a camouflaged lightweight wing, just as twitching twitching, n an irregular spasm of a minor extent. twitching, Trousseau's, n.pr a twitching of the face that the patient can exhibit at will and occurs obsessively to relieve tension. convention dictates. The use of copper in its preserved and pre-patinated state allows albatrosses and wildlife alike to feel at home in its greenness, further blending machine, bird, man and structure. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judges' comments An imaginative project using copper elements to create a conceptual wing shelter, suggesting metaphors of birds and tidal flow. It takes forward the concept of a 'hide' to observe wildlife, while reflecting the essence of migration and change--particularly appropriate in the context of moving water. CRAFTSMANSHIP Assessed by specialist judges, this category recognises the importance of craftsmanship in realising the designer's aspirations working with copper in architecture. WINNER Maggie's Highlands Cancer Care Centre, Inverness Page & Park Architects Copper contractor: W. B. Watson Already commended in the Architectural Design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. category (p86), the Craftsmanship judges could not find fault with this project. Jointing details are all executed thoughtfully and the shiplap ship·lap n. Wooden siding rabbeted so that the edge of one board overlaps the one next to it in a flush joint. ship panels relate beautifully to the gently curved elevations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HIGHLY COMMENDED Victoria Avenue Public Convenience, Cambridge Freeland Rees Roberts Architects Copper contractor: CEL CEL Cellular CEL Celestial CEL Check Engine Light CEL Degrees Celsius (temperature) CEL Comisión Ejecutiva Hidroeléctrica del Río Lempa (El Salvador) CEL Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership The chestnut form of this roof could only have been carried out successfully in copper and its success lies in careful setting out and an attention to detail that made this project such a close contender to winning. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMMENDED Redington Road, London Monahan Blythen Architects Copper contractor: Salmon Plumbing The architects for this barrel-vaulted roof required a mix of standing seam and shingle techniques--challenges which the contractors met with excellent copper work. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMMENDED Disney Place, London Malcolm Pawley Architects Copper contractor: Cu Tech Zn Ornamental This unusual design has irregular copper cladding based on a grid generated by vertical gutter sections. It incorporates banks of small square glass blocks that were all set out and completed to a high standard. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Copper in Architecture is part of the European Copper in Architecture Campaign, promoted by Copper Development Association and participating copper fabricators. It offers architects technical advice, literature (including a 120-page technical manual), RIBA RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects assessed CPD CPD citrate phosphate dextrose; see anticoagulant citrate phosphate dextrose solution, under solution. Cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD) seminars and contractors' listings. 5 Grovelands Business Centre, Boundary Way, Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead (hĕm`əl), town (1991 pop. 80,110), Hertfordshire, SE England. Hemel Hempstead was designated one of the new towns in 1946 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is a market town and London suburb. , HP2 7TE Tel: 01442 275700 Fax: 01422 275716 E-mail: helpline@copperdev.co.uk Websites: www.cda.org.uk/arch and www.copperconcept.org |
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