international creations From VMZINC®
2009
Number 11
Belgium Q8 Service Station In symbiosis with its environment Taiwan Wufeng Earthquake Museum Echoing the ruins around it Canada Halifax College Generous volumes
Portugal Hotel and Casino in Chaves Contents
Belgium Spain Australia Q8 Service station Building Convention Centre
02-03 14-15 26-27
Spain Portugal Hungary La Barceloneta Market Private House Private House
04-05 16-17 28-29
France Italy Belgium VELUX France Sports Centre Hospital Headquarters
06-07 18-19 30-31
Taiwan France Denmark Wufeng Earthquake Retirement Home Golf Club Museum
08-09 20-21 32-33
Great Britain Germany Portugal Faculty of Medicine School Buildings Hotel and Casino
10-11 22-23 34-35
Denmark Canada China Collective Housing Halifax College Villas
12-13 24-25 36-37
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 1 Editorial
Over the years since it was first published, the highly visual layout of FOCUS ON ZINC has become the magazine’s hallmark. As of now, two equally striking elements will become features of the magazine.
Firstly, the magazine has been redesigned in the new colours of our brand. VMZINC has proven to be a reference in the building industry, with a level of recognition that is even greater than we had imagined. However, the highly positive values that people in the building sector associate with our brand were no longer conveyed by the shapes and colours of our former logo. This is why we decided to rejuvenate our brand, and this issue of FOCUS ON ZINC is one of our first publications to sport proudly the new logo and visual identity, designed to convey our company values and vision.
Our values of innovation, sound industrial competence, aesthetics, specification support, development of solutions and constant enhancement of our offer through engineering are clearly visible in the brief accounts describing each of the projects presented in this issue. FOCUS ON ZINC N° 11 - September 2009. Another equally fundamental value is clearly highlighted in this issue: the FOCUS ON ZINC is the systematic inclusion of Sustainable Development considerations in all our international architecure review from VMZINC®. projects. Examples including low energy consumption, acoustic performance, It is published in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, external thermal insulation, buildings that have received awards for French, German, Hungarian, environmental performance, etc. are present in many of the projects described Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. in this issue, underlining this strategy and the active contribution of zinc in Publication Director achieving the environmental objectives set by architects. As in every issue of Christopher SMITH.
FOCUS ON ZINC, you will also read about the longevity and recyclability Project Manager of our products, and their harmonious integration into the surrounding Isabelle FERRERO. environment of the various buildings presented. Editorial Committee Michel de CALUWE, Paule CELMA, While we are proud to present the elegance of the buildings to which our Tugay DINDAR, Isabelle FERRERO, products have contributed, the technical challenges met and the support Heidi KOHSEL, provided to all involved, we are equally proud to contribute actively to Uwe NAGEL, Barbara NORDBERG, environmentally friendly construction and to a positive vision of the future Luis Romao, Christopher SMITH, of the building industry. Laura TERRICABRAS.
Editorial Contribution Jean-Marc BRUJAILLE, Jenny GILBERT, Barbara NORDBERG, Christopher SMITH.
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VMZINC® - VM 09057 - 13.6 - 09/09 - ISSN 1769-9002 - Editor: Umicore France - Printing: Vincent Belgium Green symbiosis Commercial The Aische-en-Refail service station, located near the canopies of the petrol station provide part of buildings Namur on the E411 motorway allows motorists to the electricity necessary for the washrooms and for Q8 Service station, take a break that is green in more ways than one. heating. With low energy and water consumption Aische-en-Refail During their rest break, motorists will see a building (thanks to its “green” roofing, rainwater is collected Architect(s) in symbiosis with its environment, characterised and used for the washrooms), the building needed Bureau d’architecture Emile Verhaegen SA by environmentally friendly construction solutions. not only to be comfortable but also durable. The most visible signs of these are the dome “To respect the environment, we chose natural, Contractor Ballast Nedam crowned with the green of the stonecrops planted recyclable materials: plants, wood, steel and zinc - a
Technique(s) on its roofing, the pools and the climbing plants durable, 100% recyclable material that brings a high VMZ Standing seam at the base of the building. The design team favoured level of added value to the building”, explains Pierre used with VMZ Zinc Plus thick insulation and energy-efficient glazing that is Hinkeltz, the architect. Aspect(s) more than just symbolic in its contribution QUARTZ-ZINC® to the building’s highly effective insulation. Surface in zinc The architect explored several ways of saving 1,000 m2 energy. To optimise and control solar heat and light energy, large picture windows were fitted with solar protection. Photovoltaic panels installed on
2 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Jump Picture - Fabien Devaert, Belgium. Drawings: Bureau d'architecture Émile Verhaegen, Belgium.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 3 Spain Verve and vitality Public Buildings Every city has districts with deep-rooted historic, style of the original construction. The roof rises up La Barceloneta Market, human and poetic interest. The Barceloneta district like blocks of rugged minerals, its blades sweeping Barcelona is one of these and it made its mark on Catalan down towards the city. “The imprisoned building is Architect(s) architect Josep Miàs at a time when “laundry hung twisting and turning, but finally tamed”, comments Josep Miàs from windows, the streets were lined with small Josep Miàs, as he points out the capacity of zinc MiAS Arquitectes shops and workshops” and he himself was a local to adorn all kinds of structures and the richness Contractor student. Years later, faced with the task of renovating expressed by the combination of QUARTZ-ZINC® Cubiertas Muñoz the area’s 19th century covered market, the architect and ANTHRA-ZINC®. Technique(s) VMZ Single lock wanted to pay homage to the spirit of the place standing seam and the vitality of its inhabitants. This vital spirit Aspect(s) is embodied by the eruptive, oceanic metaphors QUARTZ-ZINC®, conveyed by the restructured part of the building, ANTHRA-ZINC® which is grafted onto the regular, simple, functional Surface in zinc 6,000 m2
4 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: MiAS Arquitectes, Spain.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 5 France An exercise in style Commercial Just a stone’s throw away from Velux France’s head as roofing, façade installation, dormer windows, buildings office in Morangis, the company’s new showroom, sawtooth roofing, etc.) and secondly to stress the Extension to Velux training centre and offices are, unsurprisingly, a total compatibility of zinc with external thermal France Headquarters, Morangis stylistic composition to the glory of the roof window. insulation. Beneath its huge cloak and for a token All models in the range are displayed here in additional cost, the showroom’s level of primary Architect(s) 2 A.R.T. Réalisations a building style that combines the familiar with energy consumption is lower than 50 kWhep per m Jacques de Fontgalland the atypical: familiar in that it is modelled on per year, thus complying with the thermal regulation Architecte DPLG, the typically Parisian lower-slope/upper-slope target set by the French regulation four years ahead Manager ® Fabrice de Noblet Mansard roof; atypical in that the QUARTZ-ZINC of time. Architecte DESA, roofing stretches right down to the ground. Without Project Manager reference to “low energy building “, the architect Contractor embarked here upon a twofold demonstration: firstly Joly SA to underline the capacity of zinc to adapt to the (Saint-Marcel) most stringent installation requirements (complex Technique(s) VMZ Double lock layout, positioning windows in the same plane standing seam
Aspect(s) QUARTZ-ZINC®
Surface in zinc 900 m2
6 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: A.R.T. Réalisations, France.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 7 Taiwan Memory and prevention Public Buildings On 21 September 1999, a violent earthquake of standing seam in QUARTZ-ZINC® highlights the 921 Earthquake shook the centre of the island of Taiwan, causing architect’s vision in a lateral approach to the building, Museum of Taiwan, widespread human and material damage. Ten years but the choice of material was also dictated by Wufeng later, this catastrophe is still uppermost in peoples’ technical requirements. The high level of hygrometry Architect(s) minds. In order to allow people to remember and led to the choice of VMZ Zinc Plus to prevent Jay W. Chiu (A+B Design Group) to understand, the Earthquake Museum was erected condensation and of a watertight membrane inserted
Contractor on the very site of the epicentre. On the campus of between the deck and the roofing. This building Chungan Wellsun Co. Ltd Kuangfu college, where the sports grounds are still features several specific details related to seismic Technique(s) torn apart by a 2.5 metre fault and where the old, risks and the frequency of typhoons in the region: VMZ Double lock partly ruined buildings have been left on the site, the QUARTZ-ZINC® used here is thicker than usual, standing seam the museum offers visitors an opportunity to and both the centre distance of the standing seam used with VMZ Zinc Plus contemplate on these remains and an introduction and the minimum distance between fixing clips are System(s) VMZ Structural Roofing® to seismology. The building itself seems to echo smaller than usual. the surrounding ruins: the concrete shell of the main Aspect(s) QUARTZ-ZINC® building forms a long gallery, which makes a large break in the ground over which the roofing, Surface in zinc 1,000 m2 somewhat twisted in appearance, seems to have been flung down by the elements. The installation
8 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Daryl Jackson architects, Australia.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 9 United Kingdom Research and serenity Public Buildings The boundaries between physics and biology no The concrete structure boldly displays the designer’s Centre for the Physics longer apply in the same way that they once did belief in the principles of modern construction, and of Medicine, Cambridge in the last century. There is now more and more a huge glass wall equipped with sunscreens on the Architect(s) overlap between the two, the time having come for building’s western facade, almost blank facades to BDP dialogue. For the University of Cambridge, provision the north, and scarce openings to the east were Design Team has been made for scientists from both fields designed to provide natural lighting in the teaching RH Partnership to research and discuss work together. The new rooms. The ANTHRA-ZINC® cladding, chosen for the Contractor Centre for the Physics of Medicine was designed by material’s durability and the lasting surface finish, will TR Freeman Ltd British architects BDP and built on the University’s give the building long-term weather protection. Technique(s) developing science and technology West Cambridge VMZ Double lock standing seam used campus. Opened in 2008, it is the first phase of a with VMZ Zinc Plus larger scale project, the simple exterior housing System(s) three floors of laboratory and teaching facilities, as VMZ Flat lock panel well as offices and accommodation. It has become Aspect(s) the workplace for researchers from the departments ANTHRA-ZINC® of physics, biochemistry, chemical engineering and Surface clinical medicine. 1,000 m2
10 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: BDP, United Kingdom.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 11 Denmark Harmonious tones Collective Collective housing does not necessarily mean According to architect Holscher, the QUARTZ-ZINC® Housing repetition and monotony. In this complex, built on standing seam cladding gives a harmonious tone and Slotsbryggen, the banks of a canal, a modular technique made it rhythm to the complex and provides a vector for the Nykøbing Falster possible for each future resident to define “calm, coherent expression” aimed for by the design Architect(s) the apartment of their dreams. Before building team. “But durability, the weathering of surface Holscher Arkitekter AS began, each purchaser was given an almost free rein aspect and the natural elegance that increases over Contractor to determine the surface, layout, window positions time also swung the balance in favour of zinc”. Th. Jensen A/S and balcony size for their apartment. It was then up Technique(s) VMZ Double lock to the developer and the architect to combine all standing seam the different requirements by judiciously distributing
Aspect(s) surface areas, luxury apartments and social housing QUARTZ-ZINC® units to come up with a project that was feasible Surface in zinc and coherent. Apart from the technical imperatives 2 1,987 m and volumetric constraints of the complex, efforts were focussed on the aesthetic design of the facade, where, from one floor to another, neither the position nor the size of the windows is the same.
12 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Martin Tørsleff, Denmark. Drawings: Holscher Arkitekter AS, Denmark.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 13 Spain Making the difference Commercial “Being seen in order to be purchased or rented”: established codes, even if these studios designed buildings this basic commercial principle underlies the design for tertiary activities, architecture agencies and Edifico de 24 talleres, of the activity centre built in a residential district in photographers are more of an “industrial toy” Madrid the southern suburbs of Madrid. In order to stand out than a factory”. Architect(s) in a uniform landscape of brightly coloured ceramic, Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, Antonio Lloveras, this complex of 24 studios is covered in a more David Benítez modern, darker skin of ANTHRA-ZINC®, brightened Contractor up by coloured glazing. “It’s another way”, explains Quinta Metálica, s.l. architect Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, “of asserting Technique(s) the centre’s industrial vocation by reverting to well VMZ Double lock standing seam
Aspect(s) ANTHRA-ZINC®
Surface in zinc 3,200 m2
Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, Antonio Lloveras, David Benítez, Spain.
14 Focus on Zinc / No 11 No 11 / Focus on Zinc 15 Portugal Permuting materials Individual To each level its own function, to each function “The small surface area of the plot determined Housing its own materials, and for the house as a whole – the layout of the house from the outset”, explains Private house, Lisbon located in the city close to the sea – a mixture of architect Pedro Martins, “and gave us the idea Architect(s) elegance and durability. It is difficult, in this house of creating a heavier box for the upper floor, placed Arquitecto Pedro Martins built in Lisbon, to single out one guiding principle. on the lighter, transparent volume of the ground Contractor And yet, just one glance at the facade confirms floor.” Everything was thought out in this house, Umicore Portugal, S.A. the strength of design and of the end result. right down to the last detail, including the comfort Technique(s) Wood, black marble and QUARTZ-ZINC®, all the of its occupants. Hidden away from prying eyes VMZ Single lock components of the building are immediately visible and from the glare of direct sunlight, large glass patio standing seam in the façade, and their combination is superbly doors open onto the garden, with its patio System(s) DELTA VMZINC balanced. Once through the front door, wood is and swimming pool. everywhere – on the walls, floors and ceilings – Aspect(s) QUARTZ-ZINC® in the “living areas” on the ground floor. The “cooler” black marble and QUARTZ-ZINC® materials are set Surface in zinc 134 m2 aside for the upper floor, where they “involve no physical contact”, but give structure to a horizontal volume that is much larger than the lower level.
16 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Arquitecto Pedro Martins, Portugal.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 17 Italy Striking contrasts Public Buildings On the road to the contemplative city of Venice, expressiveness. The layout of the standing seam Virgin Active Mestre is an industrial town passed without a second and the way the upper part of the building flares Fitness Club, Mestre glance by the crowds of tourists en route to outwards highlight the dominant horizontality of Architect(s) its illustrious neighbour. Wrongly so, because the volume, making the building look as though it is Studio Architetto Mar - creativity and fantasy can be expressed anywhere. crouching down on the ground - an impression that Architect Giovanna Mar Beneath its industrial appearance, this building will be heightened by the auditorium - and will be Contractor located in Terraglio, a very busy zone on the outskirts strikingly contrasted by the verticality (seven floors) Monetti Group of Mestre, houses neither workshops nor machines, and glass facades of the future hotel. Technique(s) VMZ Single lock but the sports facilities and swimming pool of standing seam the town’s new fitness club. It is in fact the first Aspect(s) instalment of the programme designed by Venetian ANTHRA-ZINC® architect Giovanna Mar, which, when completed, will Surface in zinc include six buildings with different heights, surface 2 2,600 m areas and purposes: a hotel, a restaurant, a theatre, offices and commercial premises. ANTHRA-ZINC® was chosen not only for its durability and resistance to a polluted, saline atmosphere, but also for its
18 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Pier Mario Ruggeri (1,2,3), Studio Architetto Mar (4,5), Italy. 1 Drawings: Studio Architetto Mar, Italy. 5 4 2 3
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 19 France Blending into its surroundings Public Buildings Paradoxically, the importance attached to out of itself with its hollowed scallop shape, and Retirement Home, environmental integration in the design of a building gives way to an interior garden with four satellites Neung-sur-Beuvron is not always its most visible feature. However stretching towards the forest. It also integrates Architect(s) it is immediately obvious in this building situated natural lighting, with roof windows installed on Société d’architecture at the edge of the forest, a new residence built for the main buildings, enhancing the 800 metre curved Boitte (Romorantin) dependent senior citizens in Neung-sur-Beuvron in roof edge that is a remarkable accomplishment Contractor the heart of the Sologne region, where the green by the installers. Alongside these architectural Entreprise Lacroix PIGMENTO® roofing blends harmoniously with the features that will benefit the residents, special Technique(s) VMZ Double lock softwood forest that surrounds the building. “One attention was given to energy management standing seam of our main preoccupations was integrating the (insulation, ventilation, glazing, etc.) in the building. Aspect(s) building into its environment “, explains architect The main furnace, which burns wood shavings, is fed PIGMENTO® green Daniel Boitte. “That’s why, when VMZINC presented by the waste from a neighbouring sawmill. Surface in zinc this shade of preweathered zinc to us at the Batimat 2 6,500 m 2005 exhibition, we chose it without hesitation”. This choice was also made for other features of the building. Visually blended into its surroundings, the establishment opens
20 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Société d’architecture Boitte (Romorantin), France.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 21 Germany Sustainable education Public Buildings Several old buildings in Marl, a medium-sized town contribute to optimising the building’s environmental Albert-Schweitzer- north of Essen, were grouped together to house two performance. External thermal insulation, which is und Geschwister- new neighbouring high schools - Albert Schweitzer used traditionally in Germany, prevents heat loss by Scholl-Gymnasium, Marl Gymnasium and Geschwister Scholl Gymnasium. eliminating cold bridges. Cladding of the building in
® Architect(s) Existing buildings were renovated and enhanced ANTHRA-ZINC panels guarantees durability and Klein + Neubürger with an extension to form a new central courtyard. a maintenance-free envelope. Architekten BDA The project, which focuses on forward-looking Contractor construction solutions, aimed to reduce operating Figge and maintenance costs to a minimum. To achieve System(s) this it includes a whole range of up to the minute Locally manufactured cassettes solutions. The huge walls and ceilings store heat and the centralised energy management system not Aspect(s) ANTHRA-ZINC® only adjusts the heating, it also controls ventilation and therefore air conditioning in the building. Surface in zinc 1,400 m2 Photovoltaic panels installed on the flat roofing also
22 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Jörg Seiler, Germany. Drawings: Klein + Neubürger Architekten BDA, Germany.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 23 Canada Harbour and town Public Buildings A one hundred year old warehouse with a surface a monumental loggia alongside the building. Its steel Nova Scotia College area of 70,000 square feet (c. 7,000 m2) right next to structure is equipped with huge panels clad with of Art & Design “Pier 21”, in Halifax harbour became, in 2007, corrugated ANTHRA-ZINC®, chosen because (NSCAD Port Campus), Halifax the new Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) it is “durable, more elegant than painted material
Architect(s) campus, one of the most highly regarded visual and blends harmoniously with the corrugated MacKay-Lyons arts universities in North America. The building’s aluminium cladding of the original building”, indicates Sweetapple accessibility, its generous volumes and its openness Eric Stotts, project manager at MacKay-Lyons Architects Ltd to daylight - combined with a little renovation work Sweetapple. With an openwork design over about Contractor - predestined it for subjects that need more than half its surface, it acts as a sun-screen at certain Markland Associates Ltd just ordinary premises. Subjects like foundry, metal times of the day and darkens at night, streamlining System(s) VMZ Sine wave profile processing, plastic work, stone sculpture, joinery, the contours of the building and hinting at the extent perforated ceramics, etc. An extra floor was created, of the spacious interiors.
Aspect(s) a mezzanine was integrated into the third floor ANTHRA-ZINC® and a system of mobile partitions was installed Surface in zinc to ensure modularity. One of the main challenges 2 1,400 m facing the design team was regulating the temperature in the building, as its western facade is directly exposed to the sun. The common sense solution was to install a shading system using
Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Eric Stotts, Canada.
24 Focus on Zinc / No 11 No 11 / Focus on Zinc 25 Australia The Star of Southbank Public Buildings For the past twenty years or so, the reconfiguration seat conference hall that divides into three smaller Melbourne of Melbourne’s Southbank district - located in the halls, the MCC boldly rises to the challenge. The Convention Centre western part of the peninsula - has been focussed attention given to the choice of materials, to the Architect(s) around public and commercial areas. In 2009, quality of installation and to compliance with best NH Architecture a new facility - Melbourne Convention Centre (MCC) environmental practices earned it the highest Green and Woods Bagot - was completed next to a congress and exhibition Stars certification award, the “Six Green Stars*”. Contractor centre built in the 1990s. There was no guarantee Architectural Cladding Australia Pty Ltd of success for the architects at NH Architecture and *Australian environmental building award.
Technique(s) Woods Bagot. The design of a building that must VMZ Double lock conform to the events it accommodates standing seam – as though it were a stadium - is highly paradoxical, System(s) especially when it must also blend in with the urban VMZ Interlocking panel landscape and, architecturally speaking, set Aspect(s) the tone for future facilities in the western part ANTHRA-ZINC® of the peninsula. Beneath the cut-out silhouette Surface in zinc of a skillful origami, with facades and roofing clad 16,000 m2 in 16,000 m2 of ANTHRA-ZINC® and a vast 5,000-
26 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Karl Brown, Australia.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 27 Hungary Living in Luxury Individual The Shambala Home website opens with a dedication and their stone facing. This rare building features Housing to a prestigious line of jewellery watches. This is the remarkably refined details, such as the wall edges Shambala Home, perfect key to decipher this project that went out of folded into the curved joints - wide in places and Budapest its way to provide its residents with total elegance narrow in others – the articulated gusset system used Architect(s) and a luxurious touch of baroque. Dominating for the door lintels in the facade, or the concealed Shambala Stúdió: Fogarasi Zsolt, Lázár Budapest from the top of Normafa hill, this building, gutters. All these details contribute to the luxury Ferenc, Berta György, set amidst a 5,500 m2 park enhanced with a of the residence and are the pride of the six Gulácsi Norbert, Ilku swimming pool, sauna and gym, is a veritable jewel. members of the Szántó company who invested György, Szabó D. Gábor, Bajzik Zsófia It has been designed like one too, mingling stone, the very best of their skills on this project. wood, glass and zinc in a precious combination that is Contractor Szántó Fívérek és protected from prying eyes and from the sun by the Kozma Kft huge sun-screens on its southern facade. Technique(s) This treasure required the very best from the VMZ Double lock contractor in charge of installing the 1,500 m2 standing seam of QUARTZ-ZINC® on the roofing and on the cladding Aspect(s) of the glulam outer frame, the sections that outcrop QUARTZ-ZINC® from the openings, the standard part of the facades Surface in zinc 1,500 m2
28 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Darabos György, Hungary. Drawings: Shambala Stúdió, Hungary.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 29 Belgium Conjunction Public Buildings When he builds, restores or extends a museum or the old one, but joins onto it without changing Extension of the an art centre – which he has done frequently over its nature. The junction point between the two administrative building the past years – Ghent architect Stéphane Beel says buildings, which is not very large but extends over at Gasthuisberg Hospital that what’s important is the art. He brings the same two floors, gives new amplitude to the reception area,
Architect(s) approach to all projects. When he designs houses improving movement around the building and the Stéphane Beel he thinks about the people who will live in them, distribution of offices, meeting rooms, auditoriums, etc. Architecten and when he designs tertiary buildings he thinks As a perfect complement, the new building provides Contractor of the people who will work in them and puts more modern, larger work spaces and meeting areas. Heijmans and Stadak his imprint on them with the same simple, rigorous The height, layout and panelling of the volumes all Technique(s) organisation of space and the same atmosphere of contribute to this complementarity. The extension Single flat lock brightness and serenity. These are the features we displays its innovativeness with an original cladding System(s) find in the extension to the administrative building in natural zinc using diamond-shaped panels which 45 cm x 45 cm diamonds in Gasthuisberg Hospital, on the outskirts of Louvain, subtly distinguishes it without dividing it from the pre- Aspect(s) which was needed further to the reorganization of its formed concrete of the original building. Natural Zinc departments. The new building does not blend into Surface in zinc 3,000 m2
30 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Marquiz, Belgium. Drawings: Stéphane Beel Architecten, Belgium.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 31 Denmark A Matter of Course Public Buildings At the Storådalen golf course, on the west coast of of a clubhouse and a public restaurant called Storådalen Golf Club, Denmark, QUARTZ-ZINC® and ANTHRA-ZINC® team “Falling Water”, then offices and finally the course Holstebro up with a VMZ Interlocking panel system to form keeper’s house. The fact that all the buildings are Architect(s) a club. Pre-selected for their colour, which blends identical in design helps to give the establishment John Robert Knudsen harmoniously not only with the environment but a strong image. Technique(s) also with the local building stone, for their resistance VMZ Single lock to dampness and salinity (the sea is only about standing seam thirty kilometres away) and for their capacity to System(s) VMZ Interlocking panel, reduce, and sometimes even eliminate maintenance DELTA VMZINC costs, they first had to go through a trial run. Both Aspect(s) materials were installed using interlocking panel to ANTHRA-ZINC®, clad a prototype kiosk. At the end of this first round, QUARTZ-ZINC® intended to assess both the aesthetics and the Surface in zinc thermal and acoustic performance of the concept, the 45 m2 game continued on the green with the construction
32 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Martin Tørsleff, Denmark. Drawings: VMZINC® Design Assistance Office, France.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 33 Portugal The Colour of the Horizon Public Buildings Like all spas and holiday resorts, Chaves, located perfectly into the brownish-grey backdrop of the Hotel and Casino, to the very north of Portugal, cannot count solely Serra da Estrela mountain range. This environmental Chaves on the virtues of its waters and the beauty integration was one of the sensitive points Architect(s) of its surroundings to attract spa patients and in the project specifications. The design team found Arquitecto Rui Lacerda tourists. In 2008, to anticipate demand for quality the ideal solution through the choice of materials: Contractor accommodation and entertainment, the town opened concrete, granite and QUARTZ-ZINC®, which was Umicore Portugal, S.A. a new Solverde hotel, a casino and a 600-seat systematically used to clad the buildings adjoining Technique(s) auditorium. This complex aims to attract tourists from the hotel. VMZ Single and double the Trás-os-Montes region - where entertainment is lock standing seam rather scarce - and inhabitants from other regions of System(s) DELTA VMZINC Portugal and neighbouring Spain. Built on the summit of a hill on the edge of the town, the establishment Aspect(s) QUARTZ-ZINC® provides unique views over the mountains and
Surface in zinc the valley. Seen from the town, the outline of 8,000 m2 the building fades into a grey colour that blends
34 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France. Drawings: Arquitecto Rui Lacerda, Portugal.
No 11 / Focus on Zinc 35 China Osmosis with the Landscape Individual The city of Wuxi is situated on the banks of lake Tai gives life and meaning to the project: simplicity Housing Hu, around a hundred kilometres west of Shanghai. and widespread use of natural materials. Yan Wei Villa The recent development of urban areas Overlooking lake Tai Hu, the many blocks of bright (villas between lake and mountain), Wuxi in China has led to the creation of a large number colours and the structural play of the large windows of outlying suburbs. The new Yan Wei district, made give the neighbourhood the festive look of Architect(s) Jackson Architecture up exclusively of contemporary villas, is a Mediterranean harbour.
Contractor a perfect illustration of this trend. This programme of Shanghai Hanchang individual houses combines mixed materials, blocks Industrial Development of colour and an elegant design. QUARTZ-ZINC®, Co, Ltd a natural material that is in perfect osmosis with Technique(s) the surrounding landscape, was chosen to clad the VMZ Single lock standing seam facades of the concrete structures. Natural stone was used for the retaining walls, where its raw aspect Aspect(s) QUARTZ-ZINC® echoes the finish of the modern materials.
Surface in zinc From the top of the hill, the play on these elements 8,000 m2
36 Focus on Zinc / No 11 Photos: Lv Hengzhong, China. Drawings: Daryl Jackson, architects, Australia.
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