WINTER 2015 the Brick Architecture
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B B R R I I C C K K B B U U L L L L E E T T I I N N The brick architecture of Kirkland Fraser Moor | First person: Alex Gordon of Jestico & Whiles Masonry masterpieces: 2015 Brick Awards | Satish Jassal Architects in London; SO-IL in New York WINTER 2015 Sutherland Hussey Harris in St Andrews | Acme’s prefabricated ‘pleated’ brick panels in Leeds 2 • BB WINTER 2015 BriCk Bulletin winter 2015 Contents 4 NEWS/FIRST PERSON New brick projects by Sergison Bates and Herzog &deMeurOn; First Person –Alex Gordon of Jestico &Whiles on brick’s ability to harmonise modern interventions with traditional contexts. 6 BRICK AWARDS 2015 Showcase of all 15 category winners. 12 PROJECTS Diego Arraigada Arquitectos, Alma-nac, Feilden Fowles, PollardThomas Edwards, Sutherland Hussey Harris, SO-IL,Make, Satish Jassal Architects, and TDO Architecture. 20 PROFILE David Kirkland discusses Kirkland Fraser Moor’s fascination with clay building products and vernacular design. 26 PRECEDENT Geraint Franklin on HKPA’sHouses for Visiting Mathematicians at the University of Warwick. 28 TECHNICAL The wave-likefacade of Marlies Rohmer’s Sportblok in Groningen, Holland, is constructed from brick-slips. 30 TECHNICAL Prefabricated ‘pleated’ brick panels articulate the exterior of amajor retail-led development in Leeds by Acme. extraordinary from the ordinary The ubiquity of brick means that it is all too easy to overlook its aesthetic qualities, performance benefits and historic importance. Not so David Kirkland of Kirkland Fraser Moor (p20-25), who marvels at the cleverness of being able to takeclay from the ground and, by way of making bricks, produce architecture. Ingenuity is expressed across arange of projectsinthis issue,fromthe expressivebondsofSatishJassal’s Brick House to the wave-like facade of Marlies Rohmer’s Groningen Sportblok,while thewinning projects from the BrickAwards (p6-11) furtherunderline brick’sextraordinariness. Viviane Williams MA, FRSA, Design & Marketing Manager at the BDA Forfurtherdetailsonthe bricks/pavers in featured projects,please email [email protected] 020 73237030. BDA member comPanies AJ Mugridge t+44 (0)1952 586986 www.ajmugridge.co.uk Bovingdon Brickworks t+44 (0)1442 833176 www.bovingdonbricks.co.uk Bulmer Brick &Tile Co t+44 (0)1787 269232 [email protected] Carlton Brick t+44 (0)1226 711521 www.carltonbrick.co.uk Coleford Brick &Tile t+44 (0)1594 822160 www.colefordbrick.co.uk Forterra t+44 (0)1604 707600 www.forterra.co.uk Furness Brick &Tile Co t+44 (0)1229 462411 www.furnessbrick.com HG Matthews t+44 (0)1494 758212 www.hgmatthews.com Ibstock Brick t+44 (0)1530 261999 www.ibstock.co.uk Ketley Brick Company t+44 (0)1384 78361 www.ketley-brick.co.uk Michelmersh Brick Holdings t+44 (0)844 931 0022 www.michelmersh.co.uk Northcot Brick t+44 (0)1386 700551 www.northcotbrick.co.uk Matclad t+44 (0)1978 291133 www.matclad.co.uk The York Handmade Brick Co t+44 (0)1347 838881 www.yorkhandmade.co.uk WH Collier t+44 (0)1206 210301 www.whcollier.co.uk Wienerberger t+44 (0)161 4918200 www.wienerberger.co.uk Executiveeditor: Viviane WilliamsMA, FRSA, Design &Marketing Manager at the BDA Brick Development Association, The Building Centre, 26 StoreStreet,London, WC1E 7BT t: 020 7323 7030 e: [email protected] The BDArepresents manufacturers of clay brick andpavers in theUKand Ireland and promotes excellence in the architectural, structuraland landscape applicationsofbrick and pavers.The BDAprovides practical, technical and aesthetic advice and information through its websitewww.brick.org.uk, in its numerous publications andoverthe phone. FrontisPiece ISSN 0307-9325 Published by the BDA©2015 Editorial/design: ArchitectureToday plc Brick House,rosario, Argentina, by Diego Arraigada Arquitectos (ph: Gustavo Frittegotto). Cover Sportblok, Groningen, Holland, by Architecten- bureau Marlies rohmer (ph: Daria Scagliola). BB WINTER 2015 • 3 NEWS FIRST PERSON Brick scores at Stamford Bridge stadium Designed by Herzog &deMeuron in association with Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the new StamfordBridge stadium in Londonhas been submitted for planning consent by Chelsea Football Club. The envelope comprises aseries of brick piers that form acovered walkway around the building perimeter and extend over the roof to support a steel ring above the pitch. The appearance of the masonry structureisintended to change from lightweight and open to solid and textured, depending on the anglefromwhich it is viewed. One of the principal aims of the project is to 2015 Think Brick Award winners announced increase the ground’sseating capacity from 42,000 to 60,000 (cgi: Herzog &deMeuron). The Hello House in Melbourne, Victoria, by OOF! Architecture(above,ph: Nic Granleese) has won the HorburyHunt residential awardatthe 2015 Think Brick Awards, organised by Think Brick Australia. Alex Gordon of Jestico &Whiles Occupying acorner site opposite alocal cafe, the reflects on the potential of brick principal street facadedisplays the word‘hello’ in to harmonise modern interventions storey-high, projecting white brickwork. Designed in with traditional contexts. collaboration with artist Rose Nolan, the ‘hello wall’ is intendedtopresent acheerful and robust public face to the street,while concealing and protecting the occupant’s private life. The Horbury Hunt commercial awardproduced joint winners: Bunbury Catholic College Mercy Campus in Western Australia by Coda Studio and Broderick Architects (below,ph: Peter Bennetts); and the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology Sergison Bates’ housing for older people While thereisnosingle material that is immediatelyidentifiable with the Currentlyonsite, Fitzjohn’sAvenue in Hampstead, work of JesticoWhiles, we havea north London, by Sergison Bates, is specifically long associationwith brick andhave designed to accommodate older people who been usingitsincethe practicewas wish to liveindependently, but also as part of founded in the late 1970s. Unlike acommunity with shared services and facilities. manyofthe lightweight panelised Commissioned by developer Pegasus Life, the materialsthat areavailabletoday, £19m scheme comprises 33 dual-aspect brick offers the great advantageof apartments arranged oversix storeys. Drawing longevity; maturing and improving inspiration from the mansion blocks that with age. Its useenables abuilding characterise the surrounding townscape, the to simultaneouslyembracemodernity Sydney Business School in New South Wales, facade is conceived as aseries of projecting and tradition, in searchofamore by Gehry Partners with Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke timelessquality. Architects and Aecom (below,ph: Andrew masonry bays that create astrong vertical rhythm. Worssam); Other winners included Langtree Mall Brick walls with deep reveals and layered details In recentyears, thedurability and Mildura, Victoria, by the Hansen Partnership areintended to provide asense of permanence, robustness of brick has found (landscape award); and Actfor Kids Child and with rough and smooth precast concrete increasingfavour withhousingand FamilyCentreofExcellence in Townsville, North elements adding visualdefinition and elaboration. publicsector clients, wherelong-term Queensland, by M3 Architecture(masonry award). The project is due to complete in 2017. maintenance costs areaserious consideration.Much of our workin the housing and education sectors is built in brick for this reason. We work hardtofind ways of adding visual interest and depthtoour elevationsinthe faceofubiquitous stretcher bond,which is commonly enforced by commercial pressures. We do this typicallythrough the use of texture and surface manipulation, with masonry appearing as bondedor loadbearing brick, rather than veneered brick. Forus, brick should appear heavyand grounded, with 4•BBWINTER 2015 carefully considered apertures ensuring provide visual richness andeffective that all the new buildings aredeferential endeavoured to giveeach its own solid and void workbeautifullytogether. protectionfromsolar gain and glare. to the listed structures,allowing the characterthrough the use of threedif- At Cardinal Pole Catholic Schoolin We arecurrentlyworking on Tower latter to remain the primary focal ferentbrick types and varied detailing. Hackney,east London, we weretasked Works, amixed-use regeneration point,while balancing thiswith Aunifying English Garden Wall bond with designinganew schoolonasite projectincentral Leeds that will also thedeveloper client’s requirement to willbeemployedthroughout,echoing surrounded by afragmented context of makeextensive use of brick. Located maximisedensityacross the site. As that used within thesite andthe pre- andpost-war building types. Brick adjacenttothe Leeds LiverpoolCanal, such,views of the towershavebeen surroundingHolbeckarea. seemed theobvious choicetounite this the former industrialsite incorporates a carefullyconsideredand respected Referencingboth Louis Kahn’s disparatecontext,and to meet the client range of listed red-brick structures, within and around the site to ensure Indian Institute of Management in brief for acalmand restrained building including threelandmark Italianate that they will continue to dominate Ahmedebad,and thenearby factories in contrast to the brightlycoloured, towers and the remnants of the old the city skyline post-development. and mills, the elevations are lightweight-cladschool architecture of factory wall. With ten new masonry buildings deliberatelysimple and muscular,with recent years. Recessesand splays Our approach has been to ensure proposed acrossthe site,