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EUROPEANCOPPER IN ARCHITECTUREAWARDS 16
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INTRODUCTION
The biennial European Copper in Architecture
Awards programme continues to grow in stature, not
only celebrating exemplary and innovative uses of
copper and its alloys in contemporary design but also
exposing to a wide international audience projects
of real quality - some of which might otherwise go
unrecognised.
The 2013 judging panel, which met in London,
consisted of four architects, all recipients of previous
Copper in Architecture Awards:
1. Einar Jarmund (Jarmund/Vigsns, Norway)
2. Craig Casci (Grid Architects, UK)
3. Davide Macullo (Davide Macullo Architects,
Switzerland)
4. Anu Puustinen (Avanto Architects, Finland).
They assessed all the entries from photographs,
drawings and descriptions submitted by architects.
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This sixteenth iteration of the Awards generated a
record 82 entries from around Europe, presenting the
judges with a daunting task. They were impressed by
the high standard demonstrated across the entries
generally, with many examples of good buildings
delivering their programmes well and contributing to
their surroundings.
Firstly, they settled on ten shortlisted projects that
stood out from the rest, revealing a real diversity of
typologies and approaches, and excellent architectural
qualities. Each of the ten shortlisted entries was then
fully debated and compared with the others, initially
revealing differing opinions, which ebbed and owed
amongst the four judges. Eventually, a clear consensus
was reached revealing three particularly strong and
very different - schemes meriting Commendation
and a clear winner of exceptional quality (shown here
and on the covers, as well as on pages 4-7. Photos:
Joo Morgado - Architecture Photography).
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ARCHITECTS DESCRIPTION - SUMMARY
The buildings of the market square - and the space
dened by them - characterise the urban landscape
of Guimares. The transformation of the marketplace
into a multifunctional space dedicated to artistic,
economic, cultural and social activities - within the
scope of the European Capital of Culture 2012 -
allowed for its reintegration into the urban fabric as a
key area of the city space.
Although it was intended to maintain the scale and
existing formal relations, a new solution was proposed
for the building that promotes a strong relationship
with the square and beyond. The new building uses
a radically different language to its surroundings, with
a succession of volumes marked by the juxtaposition
of contrasting surfaces. The external skin - a grid
of metal proles in brass on ventilated faades and
glazing - accentuates a range of textures. The brass
proles pass in front of partly-concealed windows,
transforming the faades from opaque to translucent.
WINNERPLATFORM OF ARTS AND CREATIVITY, GUIMARES, PORTUGALARCHITECT
PITGORAS ARQUITECTOS
Photos: Joo Morgado - Architecture Photography
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This series of volumes and dissonant elements,
resulting from decomposition of the basic masses,
originated from the need to create a variety of different
spaces in the exhibition area, creating a tension evident
in the volume of the building and the relationship with
the space of the square, making it the main feature of
the design. For the square, a proposal was formulated
using large concrete slab paving, as a counterpoint
to the surrounding buildings, characterized as a large
multifunctional meeting area a natural public space.
Photo: Joo Morgado - Architecture Photography
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JURY COMMENTS
Pitgoras Aquitectos regeneration of the ancient
centre of one of Portugals most historically important
cities is dened by unifying abstract cubic forms, veiled
by a grid of brass proles. The judges spent time
discovering the numerous qualities of this inscrutable
entry on several levels. The more they looked, the
more was revealed.
The design is a condent response to the challenges
of working within a UNESCO and City of Culture
site. Pulling together a diversity of old buildings, the
regeneration gives a new civic heart to the city
looking to the future as well as the past. It is telling that
the project was designed by locally based architects.
WINNERPLATFORM OF ARTS AND CREATIVITY, GUIMARES, PORTUGALARCHITECT
PITGORAS ARQUITECTOS
Photos: Joo Morgado - Architecture Photography
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Externally, the brass prole grid dematerialises
the buildings mass, adding an extra, translucent
dimension, while the exible, white internal spaces
ow gracefully one into the other. The design takes
a clever, fresh approach which the judges described
simply as fantastic. Of all the entries, this is the project
that all the judges most want to visit and explore - a
worthy Winner.
Photo: Joo Morgado - Architecture Photography
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ARCHITECTS DESCRIPTION - SUMMARY
The key point of reference for the new library design
was its location in the important environment of
the civic centre created by Aalto - a masterpiece of
modern architecture. The aim was to initiate a dialogue
between the new and the old parts.
Dividing the new building into three sculpture-like
sections was an important insight that helped to
reconcile its large volume with the scale of the Aalto
centre. The new library thus relates to its surroundings.
On the other hand, it discreetly keeps distance from
the outlines and materials of the old civic centre.
The multifarious interior spaces merge into each other
in an open plan, revealing carefully designed views.
At the core of the new buildings interior design is a
large central reading terrace, a venue for events and a
place for spending time, which leads the visitor to the
collections downstairs and, through a subterranean
passage, to the old library.
The faade of the new library is realized primarily
in copper, in a conscious effort to create separation
between the project and the white volumes of Alvar
Aaltos cultural and administrative centre. The material
is not entirely new to the area, but has thus far been
restricted mainly to the roofscape of Aaltos buildings.
In the new library, copper has been used extensively
throughout the skin of the building, creating the
impression of a sculpted, unied whole. A new copper
cassette with a shingle-like appearance was designed
specically for the project and gives the buildings
surface its unique character.
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COMMENDEDSEINJOKI CITY LIBRARY, FINLANDARCHITECT
JKMM ARCHITECTS
Photo: Mika Huisman
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JURY COMMENTS
The judges applauded this assertive but respectful,
thoroughly contemporary addition to the most
extensive cluster of Alvar Aalto buildings in the world.
The massive, pristine white frames to openings
mirroring the colour of Aaltos buildings - work well
in counterpoint to the rustic feel of the naturally
weathering pre-oxidised copper of the external skin.
A centrifugal plan form with changing levels generates
lively, open spaces that will prove popular with users.
The building sits comfortably amongst its illustrious
neighbours while retaining its individuality a real
achievement that justies its Commendation.
Photo: Mika Huisman
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ARCHITECTS DESCRIPTION - SUMMARY
The project consists of two bronze and glass
structures that cover the unique runic stones and
preserve them for the future. The Jelling runic stones
mark Denmarks transition to Christianity in the year
965 and the monument is also known as Denmarks
birth certicate. The monument is classied
UNESCO World Heritage and is one of Denmarks
most valuable sites.
The architectural composition allows spectators to get
very close to the stones without damaging them and
forms a stylized dialogue between the two stones,
which represent the rst two kings of Denmark Gormand Harald Bluetooth.
The bronze angles form one wall and the roof for
each runic stone, while the other sides are fully gazed.
The objective was to accentuate the runic stones
curved forms by contrasting them with the straight
lines of the coverings which, in a metaphorical sense
hold protective hands over them. The cast bronze
contrasts with the texture of the ancient stones and
highlights their grey and reddish granite surfaces. The
casting was carried out following the traditional cire
perdu method.
A specially designed heating and ventilation system,
which ensures a frost-free climate around the runic
stones, is integrated within the structures. Articial
lighting has been discreetly added using bre-
optic light sources integrated in the roof. The lights
emphasize the runic scripture and visual motifs, and
highlight the shape of the runic stones.
COMMENDEDCOVERING OF THE RUNIC STONES IN JELLING, DENMARKARCHITECT
NOBEL ARKITEKTER
Photo: Linette Bekhj
Photo: NOBEL Arkitekter
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JURY COMMENTS
In terms of programme, the judges considered
this project to be a one-line poem but found itexquisite nonetheless and certainly deserving of a
Commendation. In this deceptively simple design,
everything has been cleverly reduced down to a pure
beauty. The interventions to this ancient site can
be seen as a pair of perfectly crafted jewel boxes
of real quality, substantially enhancing the visitors
experience of the runic stones that they so carefully -
but discreetly - protect.
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ARCHITECTS DESCRIPTION - SUMMARY
The building is located on a hillside in the Dolomites,
at the edge of a residential area. Its form has beendeveloped mainly from its function of hosting 6
independent apartments with one common circulation:
through a cut that marks the main access and the
division of the units, splitting the volume. This incision
becomes the main dening element of the building:
from the cut, at either side a copper strip unfolds that
forms the balustrade of a generous covered balcony
and ends in the surrounding topography. Following
the steep natural hillside with each oor, the strips and
the faade jump back.
The design generates a volume which grows out
of its natural surrounding topography and blends
with it, by limiting materials to a very local, almost
vernacular code: larch wood and pre-oxidised copper.
Both are subject to a natural change of colour by the
atmospheric inuence of sun, rain and snow.
Local larch timber denes both internal and external
living areas. Floor to ceiling glazing allows the
maximum view and winter solar gain from the
south, while external sun blinds and the overhangs
of the balconies above minimise overheating during
summertime. The dark copper surrounds the building
on all sides. The form of the roof itself derives from local
planning regulation which allows only a pitched roof in
this specic building plot: reinterpreted, it merges with
the design intention and also the traditional typology
of pitched roofs - not simply copying but rather by
exploring what new potentials of a traditional typology
can be.
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COMMENDEDDOLOMITENBLICK, SEXTEN/SESTO (BZ), ITALYARCHITECT
PLASMA STUDIO
Photo: Hertha Hurnaus
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The judges were seduced by the brilliant photographs
and presentation of this entry, effortlessly displayingits strong sense of form and context. The design of
this luxury apartment building echoes both Alpine
topography and traditional roof forms, redening the
local vernacular. The rigorous use of copper and
timber, both inside and out, to dene the sculpted
mass is impressive. This is a building designed and
completed with conviction, justifying its recognition
with a Commendation.
Photo: Hertha Hurnaus
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This educational and cultural centre consists of seven elements organised around a single
space, comprising: a school with kindergarten and elementary school, building restoration, a
nursery, a library and a function room.
The main building is strategically located at the heart of the site and the layout creates a public
square. The project focuses on the complementary aspects of the individual programs for the
seven elements, as well as the shared nature of the entrance courtyard and pedestrian route.
The project distributes the various entities across the site from the forecourt to the function
room beyond a river.
The general facade treatment reinforces the theme of a functional whole with the use of
materials. Protruding concrete slabs spin from one building to another, forming oors, walls
or roofs. Within the folds of concrete are facade elements, transparent or perforated: joinery
sets lacquered black, vertical sun-screens and slatted wood. Only the library building differs
from the others with its golden copper alloy skin in folded or perforated strips. Using a micro-perforated metal gives the interiors a soft light while providing transparency of the surrounding
city.
JURY COMMENTS
The judges enjoyed the formal language and playful interaction of interweaving concrete
ribbons, in-lled with almost oating - timber and copper alloy slab-like forms, with varying
degrees of transparency. This is a good project with well-designed spaces both inside and out.
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SHORTLISTEDPLE DUCATIF ET CULTUREL, PAU, FRANCEARCHITECT
MARJAN HESSAMFAR & JOE VERONS ARCHITECTES ASSOCIES
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JURY COMMENTS
The judges applauded the sensitivity with which the architects have approached such a difcult
project. Several symbolic and design ideas have been combined here but, ultimately, the simple
concept of the delicate pierced copper alloy installation, sheltering the remains of the site of the
tragedy, is both dignied and emotionally uplifting.
The Memorial is dedicated to the victims of the hostage drama
in the Beslan School during September 2004. The schools
gymnasium - the centre of hostage taking was chosen as the
central place for remembrance. An elliptically shaped mourning
wreath commonly found in the Beslan area - served as a model
for the new buildings shape, containing the partly-destroyed
gymnasium. The remaining building fabric, with all its traces of
the drama, is an essential aspect to preserve the authenticity of
the place.
The new memorial building, consisting of 106 ligree concrete
columns, encloses and protects the ruined gymnasium. Inclined,
metal-clad hollow sections are located on the outside of the
concrete columns and are occasionally xed to them. Tissue-
like, perforated golden copper alloy sheets are clamped between
the concrete columns and the hollow sections, wrapping the
building.
The decorative perforation of the copper alloy uses a motif,
based on a ower (Helleborus orientalis) which grows in the
Caucasus and is a symbol of virginity and innocence. At selected
locations, full-height openings give access to the internal
walkway between the new memorial building and the ruined
gymnasium. An elliptical glass skylight is located symmetrically
above the gymnasium.
SHORTLISTEDBESLAN MEMORIAL, REPUBLIC OF NORTHOSSETIA-ALANIA, RUSSIA
ARCHITECT
DR KREKELER GENERALPLANER GMBH
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SHORTLISTEDRADIO-LOG STRAHLENTHERAPIE, HOF, GERMANYARCHITECT
HIENDL_SCHINEIS ARCHITEKTEN
JURY COMMENTS
What interested the judges most about this project were the seductive, shiny copper surfaces
reecting nearby trees - despite their transient nature, with changes anticipated over time. The
design distances itself from the traditions of copper cladding with its crisply detailed, pristine
surfaces. A fascinating use of material - all about copper and its qualities.
A simple cubic form, the building breaks free of its restrictions and
plays with the angled lines of the facade panel sections. Clusters
of trees grow around the building, sometimes producing shadow,
accentuating the verticality of the design. The faade is divided
into non-parallel sections that develop a lively interplay with the
surrounding trees.
The material used for the curtain-walling is copper, which will
age with time. The changing seasons are reected in the subtle
colour changes which will occur in the metal, from luminous bright
copper to a warm red-brown - from shiny to matt. The curtain-
wall faade is applied using a specially developed adhesive
system to give a completely at surface with crisp edges. The
shimmering green glass breaking up the copper facade scatters
light internally and, at night, spreads light from inside to out,
bringing the building to life.
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The building is a graft onto the complexity of the Venetian urban system facing Piazzale Roma,
the car-entrance space into the city of Venice. At the same time it becomes the infrastructure
which brings an existing 19th century factory complex (Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi) to a
contemporary use: in fact it houses the technological systems serving the whole.
The scale of the building is measured on the huge void of Piazzale Roma facing the bridge of
Santiago Calatrava, on the opposite side. A new program proposes a hybrid typology being,
at the same time, both a building and infrastructure as the new structure, together with some
law-court ofces and archives, houses all the systems which enable the urban system of the
Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi to work again, regaining for the city its system of public spaces.
Facing the urban skyline of Piazzale Roma, the simple and compact shape of the new volume
connects the skyline of the multi-storey parking lots to the smaller Venetian urban texture. On
Piazzale Roma the volume doesnt touch the ground: a 5m long cantilever draws the pedestrian
ows inside. With the pre-oxidation process of the copper which wraps the building (copperin Venice represents institutional buildings) the action of time in architecture is explored and
initiated. So, the building becomes a shadow belonging both to history and the present.
JURY COMMENTS
The judges were intrigued by the monolithic gabled shape presenting a distinctive, dark prole
indeed, almost a shadow - borrowing from Venices industrial buildings. But there the local
references end and the building presents an excellent example of good, modern design
almost Scandinavian in avour.
SHORTLISTEDLCV LAW-COURT OFFICES, VENICE, ITALYARCHITECT
C+S ARCHITECTS
Photo: Pietro Savorelli
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Clarion Hotel Post is located close to the central train station in Gothenburg. In 2005 the
idea of transforming the old post ofce building into a modern, 500-bed hotel was born. The
original building from 1925, by architect Ernst Torulf, is classied as nationally important, so
the exterior and most of the interior is strictly protected. But a good collaboration with the
authorities made it possible to build 17,000 m within this State listed building.
The extension is placed in the gap of the horseshoe-shaped plan of the original building,
adapting to the original eaves level, then rising above the horizontal Post Ofce in two tower
wings - one clad in copper, the other in slate - joined by a vertical sliver of glass. The copper
and slate match the original building roof materials, but as part of a contemporary design, so
that the new building becomes a younger relative with the same DNA.
To create a living surface for the copper faade, three different types of pre-patinated copper
were used, in three different heights. The whole structure was prefabricated in room-width
modules each with a oor-to-ceiling high window, and then mounted in place.
JURY COMMENTS
Thoroughly contemporary copper and glass interventions transform this nationally important,
redundant building while displaying real respect for its original architecture. Apart from its
architectural strengths, the judges welcomed the potential for this vibrant hotel to act as a civic
focal point and catalyst for urban regeneration.
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SHORTLISTEDCLARION HOTEL POST, GOTHENBURG, SWEDENARCHITECT
SEMRN & MNSSON
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This modern interpretation of vernacular architecture, veiled in copper mesh, nestles comfortably
in its rural town, back yard setting. While debating some elements of the design, all the judges
really liked the central concept and its realisation, which provides a tangible connection between
the town and the countryside.
This new cultural and media centre in a typical rural Normandy
town takes its cue from the forms of local buildings but
transformed into modern additions. The project comprises two
distinct wings, linked by a central reception area. The 65m long
east wing contains multimedia libraries for adults and children,
the west wing is longer at 75m and houses both a Music School
and Dance School.
The architects sought a contemporary building in the heart of the
plot that redenes the relationship with its natural surroundings
(gardens, alleys, stone walls) and the built environment (traditional
buildings and shelters). The plan of the different cultural spaces
was conceived as growing like a rhizome connected at the
reception area. Here, full glazing plunges the visitor into the
green setting highlighted by the wild ower meadow between thetwo wings.
The steep pitched roof prole of the existing buildings is reected
in the new but with a modern continuity of surfaces in purple
slate, interrupted by transparent mesh areas of expanded, pre-
oxidised copper sheets over large glazed areas. The entrance
to the complex from the street is announced by a dematerialised
extrusion of vernacular buildings, also veiled in copper mesh.
SHORTLISTED
LATELIER, GOURNAY EN BRAY, FRANCE
ARCHITECT
VINCENT PARREIRA ATELIER ARCHITECTURE
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