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September 2007

‘ 10n°

a panel of projects submitted over a given period.

The next issue of FOCUS ON ZINC will again be

dedicated to our third ARCHIZINC competition

and we have high hopes that the quality of

the projects submitted will once again make

this a truly exceptional issue. The registration

form inserted in this issue provides you with

the opportunity to compete in this next

ARCHIZINC competition. Meanwhile, this tenth

“standard” issue represents an impressive

selection of recent projects around the world.

Twelve different countries on three continents

are represented, and the diversity of buildings,

functions and applications pays tribute to the

flexibility of our products.

We hope you will continue to enjoy reading

FOCUS ON ZINC just as much as we enjoy

preparing it for you.

It seems only yesterday that a handful of

colleagues sat down together to develop new

ideas for communicating with architects. The result

was FOCUS ON ZINC, and what began as a

genuine experiment has become one of our most

successful communication projects. Our initial

precept was that the magazine should let our

material speak for itself, accompanied by

information chosen by architects, rather than by us

in our role as industrial producer. By staying true

to these principles we have gained an audience of

which we are truly proud. The only real change

that we have made over the years has been in

improving our graphic design to give over even

more space to photography, and this tenth issue

presents you with a new concept for the cover.

FOCUS ON ZINC is also more than the numbered

issues of which this is now the tenth. Four years

ago we launched the idea of opening the pages of

our special issues to the architects themselves,

handing over the editorial choice to professionals. This

took the form of our ARCHIZINC competition, in which

an independent jury selects prize winners from

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Isabelle Ferrero

Laura Terricabras

Christopher Smith

Marie-Pierre Lavergne

Barbara Nordberg

Uwe Nagel

Céline Habert

Daniel Juillard

Emmanuel Henris

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CONTENTS

[ Australia ] Collective Housing

[ Spain ] Private House

[ China ] Head Office

[ Germany ] School

[ Italy ] Church

[ Belgium ] Social housing

[ Spain ] Day nursery

[ Denmark ] Psychiatric Hospital

[ Netherlands ] Concert and exhibition centre

[ Germany ] Residential and office building

[ Switzerland ] Factory

[ Spain ] Research Centre

[ Brazil ] Cultural Centre

[ France ] University

[ Luxemburg ] Private House

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[ France ] Plant

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INTEGRATION

CommercialBuildings

Research Centre

Parc de recerca biomèdica

de Barcelona, Barcelona

Architect(s):

Manel Brullet Tenas and

Albert De Pineda Álvarez

Contractor: Cubiertas Muñoz

Technique(s): Standing seam

Aspect(s): QUARTZ-ZINC®

Surface in zinc: 3,450 sq. m

(34,000 sq. ft)

With a site on the Barcelona seafront close to a number of

high-rise buildings (Olympic village, general hospital, blocks

of flats, etc.), the designers of the biomedical research

centre decided against competing with the neighbours by

building even higher and instead sought a volumetric

approach to blend their project harmoniously into its

environment. This thinking inspired the surprising creation of

an elliptical truncated cone with a partially hollow centre,

answering both the main requirement of the programme

and dealing with other constraints, such as the irregular

geometry of the site and the need to install solar panels for

the production of domestic hot water.

In this highly innovative architecture, QUARTZ-ZINC® panels,

assembled using the standing seam technique, clad the

spandrels at the top level of the inner facades. The material

finds its most traditional use on the roof, where it enables

the thickness of the roof to be reduced to a minimum,

integrating the solar panels without any visual interruption

in the lines of the roof. Around the circumference of the

building, a natural wood screen wall reduces the radiance of

the sun on the picture windows, thus contributing to

improving the energy performance of the building.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: Manel Brullet Tenas and Albert De Pineda Álvarez, Spain.

ISLAND IN THE CITY

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Public BuildingsUniversity

Physics building of the Université

PARIS VII, Paris

Architect(s):

Atelier Chaix & Morel et Associés

Project Manager: Itamar Krauss

Technique(s): Interlocking panel



(60,000 sq. ft)

Since the construction of the François-Mitterrand library,

the development of the Masséna business district in Paris

has spread in concentric waves towards the Austerlitz

railway station to the west and the Pont National to the

east. At the edge of the site, plot M3C is the site of the

Université Paris VII Denis-Diderot physics teaching and

research building. The architects, Philippe Chaix and

Jean-Paul Morel (who designed the Zénith) based their

design on the “open island” planning concept specified by

Christian de Portzamparc for the sector as a whole.

The vertical volumes of the three main bodies of the

building are set around two patios, emerging from the

monolithic base at ground level, parallel to the lines of

the streets. As these “towers or turrets” rise above their

pedestal, they divide into a multitude of planes defining

“a magical object whose facets change its appearance

according to the visual angle” write the architects. To

pursue this principle to its limits and to highlight the

sophistication of the volumetric approach, the architects

opted for a differentiated treatment of the facades,

playing on the affinities in appearance and colours

between terracotta and pre-weathered zinc. The unity of

the building is emphasised by modules with the same

dimensions which clad the facades on the street-front,

while QUARTZ-ZINC® interlocking panels cover the facades

which are set back from the street. As the hours go by

and the light changes, the island declines its many

changing faces.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: Atelier d’architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés, France.

MINIMALISM

Individual Housing

Private House

Contemporary house,

Esch-sur-Alzette

Architect(s):

Ballini, Pitt and Partners

Contractor: Rollinger Walfer

Technique(s):

Horizontal interlocking panel


Surface in zinc: 200 sq. m

(2,000 sq. ft)

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In traditional construction, blind walls facing north to

break the cold bite of the wind were often left

without cladding. This rough finish is not fashionable

in contemporary architecture, even when durability

and energy performance are prime functional

requirements. Built of wood and made to last while

providing the best energy balance, this architectural

house on the outskirts of Esch-sur-Alzette, in

Luxembourg, was designed according to the age-old

principle: open to the south and closed to the north.

At noon, the living areas, terraces and balconies are

exposed to the view, light and heat. On the north-

facing street side, it pits against the weather a

protective front almost entirely made up of

QUARTZ-ZINC® with contrasting wood panels. The

architect found that these natural and durable

materials presented “an ideal solution in the search

for a sober appearance”. The pliability and versatility

of zinc made it particularly suited to the installation

of the long narrow windows and the garage

openings without compromising the intended

minimalism.

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Photos: What if..., Belgium.Drawings: VM ZINC® Design Assistance Office, France.

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LINES AND NETWORKS

Public building

Cultural Centre

Centro cultural Telemar,

Rio de Janeiro

Architect(s): André Lompreta,

Gustavo Martins, Marco Milazzo,

Thorsten Nolte, Ana Paula Polizzo

Contractor:

N. Didini Engenharia e Construção

Technique(s): Flat lock panel



(8,000 sq. ft)

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Photos: André Lompreta, Gustavo Martins, Marco Milazzo,Thorsten Nolte, Ana Paula Polizzo,Brazil.Drawings: André Lompreta, Gustavo Martins, Marco Milazzo,Thorsten Nolte, Ana Paula Polizzo,Brazil.

The transformation and extension of this early 20th

Century building in Rio de Janeiro, which now

houses the cultural centre for Telemar, the main

telecommunications operator in Brazil, was the

result of an architectural contest the subject of

which was self-evident: communication. To meet

this challenge, the winning architect created a

dialogue between past and present in the form of

two very distinct architectures. Facing the street,

the brick facade of the original building evokes a

past when architects strove for the balance and

regularity of classical architecture. Set behind the

original building and linked to it by a glass

“connector”, the 700 sq. m extension, freed from

these constraints, proclaims, on the monolithic

surface of its facades, its new identity as

telephone museum, exhibition space and internet

café. Clad in QUARTZ-ZINC® flat lock panel, these

continuous facades devoid of openings, support an

interlace, the perfect image of a communication

network embodying “the immaterial nature of

space which,” says the architect, “is the home of

communication”.

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VIRTUOSITYIn this project, which combines housing and

offices at the foot of a hill in the north of

Melbourne, the architect, Nicholas Murray, played

the card of repetition for the mixed use building

to the extent that, “the houses are stacked

vertically like books in a bookcase”. By choosing

zinc for cladding, the designer found resources of

expressivity to break the monotony of “cut and

paste”. QUARTZ-ZINC® and ANTHRA-ZINC® in

standing seam, flat lock panel, and interlocking

panel, endow the entire project with cohesion

and unity, thanks to the virtuosity of their lines

which are softened by occasional coloured

touches of cedar cladding.

Collective Housing

Collective Housing

Villiers Street Apartments,

Melbourne

Architect(s):

Nicholas Murray Architects

Contractor: Academy Roofing

Technique(s):

Standing seam, Flat lock panel

and Interlocking panel

Aspect(s):

QUARTZ-ZINC®, QUARTZ-ZINC® PLUS,

ANTHRA-ZINC® PLUS


(2,800 sq. ft)

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Photos: GAZI photography, Australia.Drawings: Nicholas Murray Architects, Australia.

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LITTLE BLACK DRESS

CommercialBuildings

Residential and office building

Residential and office building,

Hamburg

Architect(s):

LHD-Architekten, Hambourg

Contractor: Company Enk, Brackel

Technique(s): Interlocking panels

Aspect(s): ANTHRA-ZINC®


(5,600 sq. ft)

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How do you avoid vanishing into the crowd? How do

you avoid merging into the cityscape? For individuals as

for buildings, whose size or other exceptional features

do not make them stand out, the answer often lies in

the choice of clothes. In Hamburg the 5-storey office

building project designed by LHD Architects has opted

for dark ANTHRA-ZINC® with interlocking panel cladding

as its style statement. Situated at the end of a row of

blocks of flats and beside an elevated suburban railway

line, the building fulfils its role as a landmark by means

of the cladding on its side wall – a choice further

emphasised by the gathered openings into the right-

hand side of the façade. Between the monolithic block

thus formed and the openings, a row of deep and

narrow embrasures provides a rhythmic transition. The

wooden frames of the windows add a touch of warmth.

These details are the important touches which mark the

success of a declared purpose.

In a word, elegance.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: LHD-Architekten, Germany.

DIALOGUEIts shapes, its composition and the character of its

interior space leave no room for doubt: the U2

house, built on the outskirts of Munguia in the

Spanish Basque country, is a stylistic composition.

Rubén De Miguel, the architect, took the natural

surroundings - geography, orientation, scenery -

as his starting point, so as to organise all the

functional constraints - family, social and

professional life - in a house design which he

wanted to be “a flowing area with open spaces to

link up and full blocks to unify”. Like a twinned

crystal enclosed by glass panels, the house consists

of three parts and is arranged on three levels,

without in any way compromising its basic unity.

Its walls are clad in interlocking panels in

ANTHRA-ZINC® providing the various volumes with

a harmony of rhythm, volume and the silky

elegance of its aspect, while expressing the

peculiar dialogue of interior and exterior, reflected

by the identical treatment of the living-room

chimney, from fireplace to chimney stack.

Individual House

Private House

Casa U2, Munguia

Architect(s):

Erredeeme Rubén De Miguel,

in collaboration with J. Ramiro

Higuera and David Cantalejo

Contractor: Cubremetal




(1,630 sq. ft)

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: Erredeeme Rubén De Miguel, J. RamiroHiguera and David Cantalejo, Spain.

PERFECT HARMONY

Public BuildingsConcert and exhibition centre

Muziekgebouw aan’t Ij, Amsterdam

Architect(s): Arn Meijs (Pays-Bas)

and 3XN (Danemark)

Contractor: Limeparts (LMP)

Technique(s):

Cassettes manufactured and

installed by LMP (Genk - Belgium)



(22,000 sq. ft)

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After over a century’s reign of the Concertgebouw as high

temple of the Romantic repertoire in Amsterdam, music has

brought new life to an abandoned industrial zone. Like the

Cité de la Musique de la Villette in Paris, the Muziekgebouw

built in 2005 welcomes both concerts and exhibitions. This

remarkable architectural creation makes the very most of its

site on the banks of the Ij. Overhanging the water, the glass

arch of the building is protected by a light canopy roof, but

these classical lines are interrupted by the presence of the

Bimhuis, an extension clad with ANTHRA-ZINC® cassettes,

pinned to one of the façades as abruptly as one of John

Cage’s “clusters”. It is not hard to guess that this is the

space dedicated to “alternative” music, especially jazz,

experimental music and improvisation, whose intonations

have contributed to the revitalisation of the district.

Built with limited funds, the Muziekgebouw aan’t Ij has

already been awarded several prizes: in 2006, the Urban

Land Institute Award for Excellence (Europe category) and

the Dedalo Minosse special prize; and in 2007, the Dutch

prize for best building (public building category).

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Photos: What if..., Belgium.Drawings: 3XN, Denmark.

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OVOID NUCLEUS

CommercialBuildings

Head Office

TASLY Headquarters, Tianjin

Architect(s): Mr. Liu Xin, Tianjing

Institute of Architecture and Design

Transformer: Bluescope Lysaght

Contractor: Local companies

Technique(s):

Single lock seam standing seam

(lower section) double lock seam

standing seam (upper section)

Aspect(s): QUARTZ-ZINC® PLUS


(30,000 sq. ft)

Zinc is making a name for itself throughout the world as a

key element of architectural creation. In Tianjin, on the

shores of the Yellow Sea south-east of Beijing, the TASLY

Group, which manufactures products based on traditional

Chinese medicine, has built its head office around a

zinc-clad dome. The symbolic shape was one reason for

the choice of material, but there were also functional

reasons: Tianjin’s proximity to the sea exposes it to a

corrosive atmosphere and to severe sand storms blowing

in from the Gobi Desert. This environment puts to the test

the air-and-water-tightness of buildings and the surfaces

of the materials used. The QUARTZ-ZINC® cladding of the

dome is impervious to the abrasive effect of the sand

since its patina reforms naturally. It is also completely

air-and-water-tight thanks to the single-welt standing

seam sheets, which are even double welted on the upper

part of the dome. Superbly simple once finished, the

cupola was very difficult to assemble because of its

irregular geometry. Because its shape is ovoid rather than

spherical, the VM ZINC® Design Assistance Office and the

PRO-ZINC team contributed their expertise.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: VM ZINC® Design Assistance Office, France.

SWISS SWEETS

CommercialBuildings

Factory

Ricola Factory, Laufen

Architect(s):

Zwimpfer Partner, Basel

Contractor: Gebr. Baur AG, Baar

Technique(s):

Double-lock standing seam

Aspect(s): ANTHRA-ZINC® PLUS


(40,000 sq. ft)

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For almost 80 years Laufen, south of Basel in

Switzerland, has been the home of a delicious

industry: the manufacture of Ricola herbal sweets. In

2006, in order to meet the demands of increased

production reaching 12,000 tonnes a year, the

company opened a new factory, also built at Laufen

so as to remain close to the 200 Swiss mountain

farms cultivating the mint, elderberries, burnet etc.,

used in the manufacture of the sweets. Like the

company’s other buildings, the architectural design of

the work was the subject of deep reflection. The

choice of material for the façades was finally decided

in favour of an ANTHRA-ZINC® PLUS cladding, which

met the demand for an industrial architecture of high

quality. Colour durability was also one of the criteria

of choice, as the façade has to be pressure-washed

regularly to remove the deposits associated with the

production of sugary smoke. The appearance of the

material has been judged impressive. Indeed, its

anthracite tone shows a strong affinity with the dark

colour of the firm’s sweets…

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: VM ZINC® Design Assistance Office, France.

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WATER TREATMENT

Public Buildings

Plant

SIAAP water treatment plant

(Syndicat interdépartemental pour

l’assainissement de l’agglomération

parisienne), Valenton

Architect(s): AA’E (Architectes

Associés pour l’Environnement),

Avgui Calantidou, Jean-François

Capeille, Pierre-Henri Montel

Contractor: Lagrange

Technique(s):

Single lock seam standing seam



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Clear colours, transparent facades, integration into

the landscape – building after building, the

growing concern about the environment is shaping

the architectural style of environmental

installations by choosing the same range of

materials: glass, steel, zinc and concrete. The

water treatment plant at Valenton (Val-de-Marne)

is one of four SIAPP plants where the three million

cubic metres of waste water from Paris and its

suburbs are treated. Built as part of an extension

programme, these five buildings house the

different stages of an innovative sludge treatment

process implemented here for only the second

time in Europe. Before being sent to agricultural

land for use as fertiliser or being transformed into

combustible fuel, 200 tonnes per day of sewage

sludge are successively dehydrated, dried,

deodorised, packaged then stored in the silos at

the plant railway terminal. The drying furnace at

the centre of the operation occupies the main

building, which is clad in distinctive QUARTZ-ZINC®

with a matt finish which softens or emphasises

the volumes according to variations in light. At

night, the play of light continues with the interior

lighting of the buildings casting reflections on the

lac des Oiseaux towards the town and the

Mediterranean TGV track which runs along the

edge of the site as it leaves Paris.

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Photos: AA’E & le SIAAP, France.Drawings: AA’E, France.

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SCHOOL HOUSE

Public Buildings

School

Pauline-Thoma-Schule, Kolbermoor

Architect(s):

AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern

Contractor: Güther GmbH

Technique(s): Interlocking panel,

locally perforated interlocking panel



(17,500 sq. ft)

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Since he had plenty of space to build a school in a

residential area of Kolbermoor, in southern Bavaria,

the architect pictured a group of buildings which,

seen as a whole, does not interrupt the continuity

of the neighbourhood. The same logic is applied to

the use of the buildings: each module is “the

home of a class” which, depending on the time of

day and the timetable, is either on the first floor

for scholastic subjects or on the ground floor for

other activities.

The differentiation of functions, the stated aim to

blend with the neighbourhood and a third criterion

- durability – resulted in contrasting treatments of

the levels and the choice of ANTHRA-ZINC®

Interlocking panel cladding for the upper level. On

completion of the construction, the question of

cleaning and maintenance arises for schools as for

all public buildings. Here the key word, regardless

of the creative approach and initial ambitions, is

usually cost-efficiency.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: AV1 Architekten, Germany.

A SIMPLE CLOAKAt Conegliano, 50km north of Venice, the Church

of the Holy Virgin is clad in the simplest possible

garment – a cloak which emphasises the curved

lines of the building. Beneath the radiant light

of the sun which bathes the peninsula, gentle

reflections glow on the weathered surface of

the patina while, on the shady side, the seams

of the flat lock panels are barely discernible. These

almost invisible lines reflect the knowledge and

craftsmanship of the roofer who installed

the ventilated facade. The 430 x 1,200 mm

QUARTZ-ZINC® panels are attached to an extruded

aluminium framework. In order to ensure the

precision of the curved sections, the profiles were

roll-formed between cylinders. This operation is

especially delicate as the folds for interlocking the

panels must under no circumstances be crushed.

Public Buildings

Church

Chiesa Beata Vergine delle Grazie,

Conegliano Veneto (TV)

Architect(s): Studio Architetto

Nerino Meneghello

Contractor: EU-CO S.r.l.

Technique(s): Flat lock panel



(10,000 sq. ft)

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Photos: EU-CO S.r.l., Italy.Drawings: EU-CO S.r.l., Italy.

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

Collective Housing

Social housing

Social housing, Ougrée

Architect(s):

Nicolas Prebenna and Eric Gaillard

Contractor: Bernard Genon

Technique(s): Vertical standing

seam, Horizontal Interlocking panel

Aspect(s):

ANTHRA-ZINC®, QUARTZ-ZINC®

Surface in zinc:

600 sq. m (6,000 sq. ft) roof,

250 sq. m (2,500 sq. ft) facade

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It has been a long time since life in Ougrée, in the

suburbs of Liège, has been ruled by the sound of

sirens from metal production factories. Today, the

deserted industrial zones are being taken over by a

new urban fabric. In tune with tradition and in

harmony with the environment, the 20 homes in this

residential complex designed by Nicolas Prebenna

and Eric Gaillard pay discreet homage to the

architecture of the old mining villages through the

use of brick and by its general appearance. “The

guiding principles from beginning to end for this

social housing project were quality and longevity,”

the architect explains. Separated by covered entrance

stairways clad in ANTHRA-ZINC®, which emphasise

their autonomy, the housing units, also clad in

ANTHRA-ZINC®, open onto the courtyard and the

street “in order to optimise the access of heat and

light”. On the street side, bow windows surrounded

in QUARTZ-ZINC® interlocking panels mark the

entrance to the complex and set off the brick gables

while creating an elegant contrast with the dark lines

of the standing seam.

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Photos: What if..., Belgium.

ENLIGHTENMENT

Public Buildings

Day nursery

Guarderia Piedra Machucana, Ávila

Architect(s):

Arturo Blanco Herrero,

Alegría Colón Mur

Contractor: Collosa




(5,200 sq. ft)

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This day nursery is situated in the historic centre of

Ávila, close to the Santo-Thomás convent, which

“discreetly influenced its design, the repetitive

volumes of which are a veiled reference to the

Renaissance architecture of the monument”,

according to the architect, Arturo Blanco Herrero.

More significantly, and also less obviously, he

concentrated on managing the lighting and the

quality of light, so that all the spaces – activity

rooms and playground – gained maximum benefit

from their exposure to the sun which, in this

southern city, is at its optimum for ten months of

the year. The materials for the building were

chosen to suit this project: perfectly opaque

ANTHRA-ZINC® interlocking panels and glass in

varying degrees of transparency, which create light

wells, openings to the outside and light-reflecting

surfaces. On the outside this minimalist approach

helps emphasise the volume of the building

without giving it a heavy appearance. Inside, the

abundant light calls attention to the facilities which

are designed to allow the children to find their

bearings visually.

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Photos: Paul Kozlowski, France.Drawings: Arturo Blanco Herrero and Alegría Colón Mur, Spain.

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A DYNAMO FOR LIFE“One of the most important roles of architecture

is to be a dynamo for life and to create the best,

most inspiring surroundings for human activities”,

states the designer of this establishment. When it

came to building a new psychiatric hospital for the

city of Aalborg, in northern Denmark, this eminently

functional vision gave rise to a building complex in a

great variety of sizes and dimensions, built according

to a rigorously planned structure and organisation

and which the architect compares to a small town

situated on a south-facing slope. Catching the

daylight, “particularly lovely and good for everyone

inside the building”, is clearly the most important

role of the broad glass surfaces which characterise

the building. On the outside too, these big reflective

surfaces give it its architectural identity, combining

with the lines of the metal trim and the

ANTHRA-ZINC® cassettes to create a very striking

facade, or opening up even wider breaches for the

light on the brick facing.

Public Buildings

Psychiatric Hospital

Psychiatric Hospital, Aalborg

Architect(s): Cubo Arkitekter A/S

Transformer: AE Stålmontage A/S

Contractor:

Carl Christensen & Co. A/S

Technique(s):

Locally manufactured Cassettes



(20,000 sq. ft)

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Photos: Martin Tørsleff, Denmark.

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FOCUS ON ZINC

N° 10 - September 2007.

FOCUS ON ZINC is the international

architecture review from VM ZINC®.

It is published in Czech, Danish, Dutch,

English, French, German, Hungarian,

Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

Publication Director:

Christopher SMITH.

Project Manager:

Isabelle FERRERO.

Editorial committee:

Tugay DINDAR, Isabelle FERRERO,

Emmanuel HENRIS, Karina JENSEN,

Daniel JUILLARD, Marie-Pierre LAVERGNE,

Uwe NAGEL, Barbara NORDBERG,

Christopher SMITH, Laura TERRICABRAS.

Editorial contribution:

Jean-Marc BRUJAILLE, Marie-Pierre

LAVERGNE, Christopher SMITH.

Design:

GRAPHIC PLUS.

Cover: Emmanuelle DERDINGER.

Printing:

Imprimerie VINCENT.

© Copyright Umicore France - September 2007.

Any total or partial reproduction of this

document is subject to prior written

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