Le numro de La rnovation

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Le numro de la rnovation
La totalit de ce numro est consacre lingniosit des architectes ds lors qu il sagit de rnover les environnements dans lesquels nous vivons et travaillons. En prservant les constructions et les paysages urbains originels pour les adapter de nouvelles utilisations, ces professionnels respectent les critres de durabilit les plus svres. Ils mnagent les ressources naturelles en utilisant au mieux ce qui existe dj. Et cela est pour eux dautant plus un dfi car il leur faut aussi dvelopper une note personnelle ainsi quune vision nouvelle pour le XXIe sicle. Les divers projets prsents dans ce numro illustrent diffrentes approches choisies pour relever ce dfi. Il sagit dajouts et dinterventions sur des structures dj existantes ou bien la cration de nouveaux btiments qui doivent sintgrer avec un environnement historique pour redfinir les espaces urbains. Cependant, tous ces projets ont en commun les nombreuses possibilits que seuls le cuivre et ses alliages peuvent offrir lexpression architecturale. Notre article illustr en couverture en est lexemple parfait. Dans ce projet, des structures revtues de laiton se faufilent dans la structure urbaine, dfinissent de nouveaux panoramas et rendent hommage la cathdrale de Lund. Au dbut, brillantes et modernes, les surfaces en laiton vont foncer et procurer une sensation dintemporalit. Le mme phnomne se retrouve sur du cuivre pr-oxyd dune ancienne villa italienne (p. 18 21) dont les axes et la circulation ont t radapts afin que la btisse joue son rle dhtel. Le caractre intemporel et permanent du cuivre est encore renforc par des lments en laiton que lon a incorpors un chteau espagnol (p. 34 35). Ici, aucune rfrence littraire, sinon une esthtique abstraite totalement en accord avec la pierre massive dorigine. Cette approche prsente des similitudes avec lutilisation que lon a faite du cuivre dans une maison traditionnelle au Luxembourg (p. 26 29) pour exprimer clairement la modernit par des extensions. plus grande chelle, la nouvelle extension dun entrept londonien rnov (p. 12 15) a fait appel un revtement en laiton pour dfinir ses volumes rsolument contemporains. Ici, une forme sans compromis reflte le profil pignon de loriginal pour crer une composition cohrente. Une approche similaire mais plus discrte est adopte pour lextension dune glise de Londres (p. 32 33). Aux Pays-Bas, la nouvelle orangerie dun manoir (p. 8 11) sintresse aussi la relation entre des btiments contigus, lun neuf et lautre ancien. Cette approche rafrachissante dune typologie ancienne sexprime sous la forme dun pavillon largement vitr au toit en courbe, couvert de cuivre vert pr-patin et ainsi apparent au btiment originel. Avec la nouvelle usine de traitement des eaux de Varsovie (p. 22 25) lapproche est plus radicale : on imite les pignons et les fatires convexes des constructions du XIXe sicle voisines. Ici, le cuivre joue le rle plus traditionnel du matriau de couverture. Et nous tudierons les diffrentes formes - transparentes et modules - quil prend pour rendre, des btiments du XXe sicle dintrt limit, tout leur clat (p. 16 17 et p. 30 31). Nous finirons l o nous avons commenc, par un autre exemple dutilisation du cuivre en rnovation dun ancien difice urbain. Il sagit des anciens bains publics de Thiene, en Italie (p. 36 38), projet dans lequel on redonne souffle un btiment redondant, transform en centre de jeunesse et vtu de coques de cuivre aux formes arrondies et vivantes. Nous esprons que vous trouverez plaisir et inspiration dans la dcouverte de ces projets, o le cuivre joue le rle de catalyseur pour un renouveau architectural et urbain riche dinventions. La rdaction.

Copper Architecture Forum 32, Avril 2012 Copper Architecture Forum fait partie de la campagne europenne actuelle sur lutilisation du cuivre en architecture European Copper In Architecture Campaign , et est publi deux fois par an 25.200 exemplaires. Le magazine est distribu aux architectes et aux professionnels de lindustrie de la construction en Belgique, Rpublique Tchque, Danemark, Finlande, France, Allemagne, Grce, Hongrie, Italie, Pays-Bas, Norvge, Pologne, Russie, Espagne, Sude, Ukraine et Royaume-Uni.

quipe rdactionnelle : Lennart Engstrm, Ari Lammikko, Chris Hodson, Hannele Kuusisto, Hermann Kersting, Robert Pinter, Irina Dumitrescu Adresse lectronique : editorialteam@copperconcept.org Adresse : CAF, European Copper Institute, Avenue de Tervueren 168 b-10, B-1150 Brussels, Belgium diteur : Nigel Cotton, ECI Mise en page et ralisation technique : Naula Grafisk Design, Sweden Impression : Strlins Grafiska AB 2012, Sweden Comit ditorial : Birgit Schmitz, De Kazimierz Zakrzewski, Pl Marco Crespi, It Nicholas Hay, UK Nikolaos Vergopoulos, Gr Nuno Diaz, Es Olivier Tissot, Fr Paul Becquevort, Benelux Pia Voutilainen, Se, No, Fi, Dk Robert Pintr, Hu, Cz, SVK Vadim Ionov, Ru birgit.schmitz@copperalliance.de kazimierz.zakrzewski@copperalliance.pl marco.crespi@copperalliance.it nick.hay@copperalliance.org.uk nick.vergopoulos@copperalliance.gr nuno.diaz@copperalliance.es olivier.tissot@copperalliance.fr paul.becquevort@copperalliance.be pia.voutilainen@copperalliance.fi robert.pinter@copperalliance.hu vadim.ionov@copperalliance.ru

Couverture : Le centre daccueil des visiteurs de la cathdrale de Lund (pages 4 7). Photo : ke E:son Lindman

Quatrime de couverture - Le Grenier, Londres (pages 12 15). Photo : Tim Crocker

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un nouveau centre daccueil des visiteurs pour la cathdrale de Lund en Sude redfinir lorangerie dun manoir aux Pays-Bas une extension en bronze rajeunit un entrept londonien traditionnel rnovation dun espace de toiture inutilis dans le centre ville dHelsinki

Intervention divine

8-11 La continuit du cuivre

12-15 La fusion de lancien et du moderne 16-17 Un profil urbain en cuivre

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a copper-clad intervention restructures an Italian villa for new uses Warsaws new water plant refers to neighbouring 19th century buildings additions to a traditional Luxembourg house are expressed in modern forms transforming a 1970s office building with a transparent copper skin returning a 19th century London church to religious and community use simplicity and permanence define additions to an ancient Spanish castle distinctive copper-clad forms redefine the urban role of a disused bath house in Italy

Timeless Copper

2225 Pure Water under Copper Roofs 2629 Copper Cottage

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3031 Box Top 3233

Copper for House on the Rock

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new projects in our next issue and Copper Architecture news.

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INTERVENTION DIVINE
Lund, au sud de la Sude, le nouveau centre daccueil des visiteurs relie danciens btiments disparates grce des structures recouvertes de facettes en laiton, donnant ainsi un nouvel clat au parvis de la cathdrale du XIIe sicle.
par Chris Hodson

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 partir dun concours remport, larchitecte Carmen Izquierdo a conu une structure en laiton et en verre trs contemporaine regroupant plusieurs btiments anciens en un complexe cohrent. La faade dentre sur Kyrkogatan prolonge la toiture du btiment voisin par un auvent en laiton surplombant une avant cour. Le btiment se prolonge sur larrire vers Kungsgatan, puis se tourne vers la cathdrale dans un mouvement expressif en entonnoir lauditorium termin par une baie

vitre, slance symboliquement vers les tours historiques. Une superposition aux difices anciens Carmen Izquierdo dclare : Je vou-

les proportions et les lignes des btiments voisins. Portail et atrium , tels taient le cur du projet initial, conservs dans la conception finale mais dans un programme compltement nouveau.

lais crer un btiment contemporain qui soit comme une nouvelle couche sur les strates historiques du centre de Lund. Le nouvel difice est conu pour se fondre dans le paysage urbain de manire naturelle en capturant

qui cre une surface dynamique et riche, dont la surface volue avec le temps pour se fondre dans le paysage urbain.

Le laiton un matriau naturel

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 lintrieur, lentre domine lespace et dessert la fois le parvis de la cathdrale et Kungsgatan. Son atrium, sur deux niveaux, en fait un lieu de rencontres conviviales, destin recevoir le public, les expositions et une caftaria Il est surplomb par les bureaux du premier tage. Ici, le sentiment de robustesse procur par les planches de revtement des murs en bton contraste avec la sensation douverture cre par les cloisons entirement vitres. Cet auditorium aux volumes expressifs est un espace unique dont la fentre en entonnoir trapzodal guide le regard du visiteur vers les flches de la cathdrale. Un passage pour les visiteurs Carmen Izquierdo ajoute : Le btiment cre des espaces squentiels extrieurs et intrieurs intressants. Il est la fois le passage des visiteurs vers la cathdrale et le forum des discussions. De conception simple mais expressive, il interagit avec le paysage urbain environnant grce ses angles et ses dclivits. Le revtement du nouveau btiment a t choisi en laiton car cest un matriau naturel qui prsente une grande richesse. La surface du laiton volue au fil du temps et va donc se fondre progressivement dans le paysage urbain. Neuf, le btiment est clinquant et simpose certes au visiteur pour provoquer sa raction. Mais, au fur et mesure que lvolution naturelle de la surface du laiton va se produire au cours des premires annes, il va gagner en subtilit pour devenir intemporel. Les formes et le mouvement du btiment travers le site russissent prserver les paysages historiques essentiels tout en crant de nouvelles perspectives. Des espaces publics varis et plus intimes sont galement amnags lintrieur et tout autour du centre daccueil des visiteurs. Lors de son inauguration, lanne dernire, lvque Antje Jackeln a dcrit avec pertinence le nouveau btiment comme le prolongement de la cathdrale .

Architecte : Carmen Izquierdo Entreprise : Malm Pltservice AB Produit en cuivre : Nordic Brass Photos : ke E:son Lindman

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CONFERENCE AND CHAT ROOMS BOOKSTORE ARKEN AUDITORIUM

GROUP ROOM

OFFICE

CLEANNING STAFF BOOKSTORE KITCHEN LAURENTIIHALL

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OPEN AREA DOWN

OFFICE

HALL BOOKSTORE ARKEN YARD STAIRWELL FOYER ELEV.

DEPOT / STORE
YARD STAIRWELL CONFERENCE

RESTROOM

OFFICE

ELEV. STAFF

DEPOT

WAITING

EXHIBITION

ELEKTRICITY DEPOT / STORE

YARD KUNGSGATAN

INFORMAL MEETINGPOINT

CHECKROOM

RESTROOM

PORTAL KYRKOGATAN OFFICE

REPRO/ PRINTING

CLEANING

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OPEN AREA DOWN

PASSAGE/ LIBRARY GROUP ROOM OFFICE

REFRESHMENT
OFFICE GROUP ROOM

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DEPOT / STORE

TECHNIQUE

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Plan du rez-de-chausse

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La continuit du cuivre
Les architectes Braaksma et Roos ont fait appel au cuivre dans le cadre dune extension de lorangerie dun manoir et le choix du matriau cuivre reste rsolument moderne, comme ils lexpliquent ici. Mandats par SAS Institute Inc., nous avons conu le plan de leur sige social aux Pays-Bas. SAS (anciennement connue sous le nom Statistical Analysis System ) est base Huizen, dans un manoir spacieux et charg dhistoire. Lorsque la socit nous a contacts, le btiment comprenait une aile dextension du dbut des annes 60 bien abme. Notre challenge consistait remplacer cette extension par une version contemporaine dune orangerie, annexe traditionnelle des grandes maisons de campagne. Cette orangerie est conue comme un complment du btiment historique originel, tout en se dmarquant comme rsolument moderne.

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 Nous avons tabli un

Nous avons tabli un dialogue entre lancien et le moderne. Tandis que le btiment original est principalement conu en pltre et en verre, pour le matriau annexe, la nouvelle orangerie est construite en verre avec, lintrieur, des lments secondaires de forme cubique, pltrs de blanc. Toute la toiture de lorangerie est recouverte de cuivre, tout comme le sont les magnifiques baies convexes du manoir. Des crans perfors en cuivre pr-patin forment les portes principales de la faade Est, contribuant ainsi la transparence de lorangerie.
Kim Zwarts

dialogue entre lancien et le moderne

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Kim Zwarts

Du cuivre transparent Par la transparence de ses faades en verre et en cuivre perfor, ainsi que par son isolement, lorangerie se distingue du btiment principal, laissant le paysage alentour pntrer son espace. Pour souligner davantage la transition entre lintrieur et lextrieur, le sol en pierre de lintrieur schappe au dehors pour suivre le contour de la projection de la toiture. Une surface en bois encercle le sol de pierre et svase au milieu pour former une terrasse accueillante.

Kim Zwarts

Le rez-de-chausse de lorangerie a pour principales fonctions laccueil et le point de rencontre , en grande partie dans la zone de restauration. On y trouve galement un auditorium intrieur et extrieur spar et une salle de confrence. Le premier tage accueille deux bureaux plan ouvert, ainsi que des bureaux ferms, tandis que les espaces secondaires sont logs dans des botes blanches. Au-dessus de ces botes, ct nord, la toiture en cuivre est releve telle un capot, pour abriter la circulation dair.

Architecte : Braaksma & Roos Architectural Office www.braaksma-roos.nl Installateur du cuivre : Toit : Ridder Metalen Dak- en Wandsystemen BV, crans : Non Ferro BV Produits en cuivre Toit : TECU Patina crans : TECU Patina Mesh Photos : Paul Becquevort, Kim Zwarts

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DETAILS

Le cuivre en dtail

Vue en coupe dtaille

DETAILS Section transversale dtaille

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Pollard Thomas Edwards architects

LA FUSION DE L ANCIEN ET DU MODERNE

Ce projet donne une nouvelle vie danciens btiments. On les a dots damnagements qui rpondent aux besoins du XXIe sicle, tout en respectant et clbrant leur intgrit. La nouvelle extension revtue de bronze tmoigne dune approche la fois spectaculaire et dlicate lensemble constituant une fusion harmonieuse du nouveau et de lancien.
Lentrept grains est situ dans la zone protge dAbbey Road Riverside, dans la valle de Roding, dans lest de Londres. Rpertori au patrimoine local, il tait abandonn depuis trs longtemps et devait bnficier dune restauration urgente et complte pour tre nouveau utilisable. En 2009, lamnagement conu par Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL), situ dans un quartier industriel cratif centr sur les vieux btiments du grenier et de la malterie, a reu laval des autorits.

Par touches dlicates

Les architectes Pollard, Thomas et Edwards (PTEa) ont ensuite t dsigns pour dvelopper le plan de SHL le principe tant doptimiser lespace dans les btiments nouveaux et anciens, tout en prservant le caractre originel et les rfrences historiques. Bien que la rparation et la restauration de la structure originelle ncessitassent des travaux importants, tout le gnie de la conversion consistait travailler dans la nuance, par touches lgres et dlicates. Le grenier rnov et sa nouvelle extension vtue de bronze accueilleront le sige social du lotisseur et entrepreneur Rooff et dautres entreprises commerciales et cratives. Rooff a mis au point des mthodes de construction durables, afin de fournir un environnement de travail de qualit un cot viable. Le plan et la forme de la nouvelle extension respectent le btiment originel en imitant la robuste structure pignon. Les nouveaux matriaux, et en particulier les panneaux de bronze, renforcent encore lunit de lensemble. Lentre donne demble sur un carrefour de circulation verticale entre les deux ailes, soigneusement intgr dans lancien btiment au moyen de matriaux, couleurs et clairages modernes qui compltent harmonieusement la structure historique. Ce carrefour offre un nouveau cur dynamique au btiment, entirement accessible aux visiteurs. Les logements neufs sont relis la partie existante par le noyau de circulation verticale et par une passerelle en hauteur.

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Les rives avant le dbut des travaux...

et une fois les travaux achevs.

Un catalyseur pour la rnovation

Lachvement du grenier et la construction de la magnifique extension revtue de bronze constituent la premire phase de la rnovation long terme des berges de Roding. Ces oprations sont penses comme un catalyseur pour la poursuite de la rnovation du quartier. Elles sont considres comme un exemple des bonnes pratiques en matire de style et de conservation, combines dans un projet unique, et ont remport le prix de la catgorie commerciale des World Architecture News Awards de 2011.

Architectes : Pollard Thomas Edwards architects - www.ptea.co.uk Architectes de la conception initiale : Schmidt Hammer Lassen Installateur du cuivre : Roles Broderick Roofing Ltd Produits en cuivre : TECU Bronze Photos : Tim Crocker

Lentre dbouche directement sur un centre de circulation verticale entre les deux ailes.

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Plan du rez-de-chausse

Plan du 3me tage

INTERVIEW
Chris Hodson parle de la conception du revtement en bronze avec Andrew Stokes, architecte du projet chez Pollard Thomas Edwards architectes. CH: Comment avez-vous conu le design de lextension prismatique ? AS : Au dbut de notre travail avec SHL, nous avons explor les formes, les ouvertures et la gestion du soleil en sappuyant notamment sur des tudes de relation entre pleins et vides. CH: Comment tes-vous arrivs au choix du bronze pour le revtement de lextension ? AS : La proposition initiale de SHL prvoyait de lacier Corten mais ils lont remplac par le cuivre car le client sinquitait du vieillissement et de ltanchit. Nous avons alors tudi le cuivre, le bronze, le laiton et divers autres matriaux de revtement mtallique pour en fin de compte choisir le bronze. Une esthtique et une ornementation modernes, telles taient notre concept de base. Nous voulions, tout en tenant compte du contexte historique, crer un contraste dynamique par lutilisation dun matriau de construction traditionnel tel que le bronze ou le cuivre.

CH : Avez-vous galement tenu compte de lvolution du matriau dans le temps ? AS : Les caractristiques de vieillissement taient galement essentielles, car la toiture ou le mur inclin est trs visible et ne vieillira pas comme les surfaces verticales. On nous a assurs qu court ou moyen terme, le bronze devrait vieillir de faon lgrement plus uniforme. CH: Est-ce que les questions de durabilit et denvironnement taient importantes ? AS : Absolument. Comme le cuivre, le bronze a dmontr sa qualit de matriau durable par sa solidit et sa longvit exceptionnelles. Il ne ncessite pratiquement aucun entretien et il peut tre entirement recycl. CH: Comment avez-vous russi la conception dtaille des faades ? AS : Nous avons excut des modles de travail pour explorer diffrentes formes de revtement mtallique - par exemple la forme et la taille des panneaux, des joints verticaux, horizontaux ou inclins. La forme du btiment exigeait une approche tridimensionnelle, car la toiture est en fait un mur inclin. Ces modles nous ont permis de comprendre linteraction dlments essentiels tels que les fentres, les lanterneaux et la gouttire princi-

tudes de lextension explorant des relations entre pleins et vides.

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Vue en coupe de la nouvelle extension, de latrium et du btiment existant.

pale avec diverses configurations de panneaux mtalliques. Ils nous ont permis dexplorer des solutions qui prservent lintgrit de la forme prismode en crant un aspect similaire sur toutes les faces du btiment, non seulement pour le revtement, mais galement pour la forme, la gomtrie et lornementation des fentres et de lclairage par le plafond que nous avons estim devoir tre exprims comme des fentres dans le toit plutt que comme des lanterneaux traditionnels. CH: Comment trouvez-vous le revtement en bronze une fois termin ? AS : Nous sommes trs satisfaits du rsultat final. Le bronze vieillit bien ; les dtails des bords et des artes sont vifs et nets, le format horizontal des panneaux et les joints verticaux dcals sintgrent bien au placement et au dimensionnement alatoires des fentres. Les ondulations subtiles des panneaux allgent et adoucissent laspect neuf de lextension qui se marie bien avec la patine du temps que nous nous sommes efforcs de laisser apparente sur les btiments historiques. Avec notre sous-traitant pour la couverture, nous avons apport un soin particulier toutes les jonctions des matriaux avec le revtement, les dtails et la mise en uvre de tous les joints, et ceci sest avr parfait pour laspect final du btiment.

Comme le cuivre, le bronze

a dmontr sa qualit de matriau durable par sa solidit et sa longvit exceptionnelles.

Modles de travail de lenveloppe de lextension.

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Un profil

urbain en cuivre

Le ramnagement des toitures de la galerie commerciale du centre ville dHelsinki a permis la cration despaces de bureaux trs attendus. Cette solution durable fait largement appel au revtement de cuivre pr-patin qui pouse le profil traditionnel en cuivre vert de la capitale finlandaise.
La nouvelle tour de bureaux de la banque Evli est rige dans un lieu inhabituel : au sommet de lnorme galerie commerciale du centre ville, au cur mme dHelsinki, o lon trouve la fois bureaux et boutiques. La banque Evli a occupait dj divers emplacements dans le centre commercial mais elle dsirait regrouper tout son personnel sous le mme toit. Comme il est pratiquement impossible de trouver un terrain btir au centre dHelsinki, la construction de nouveaux bureaux la mme adresse, bien connue de la clientle, est une solution astucieuse. Le nouveau btiment de cinq tages occupe un espace de toiture laiss vacant, notamment danciens parkings. Ldifice au style commercial resplendissant trne sur un forum pav, partiellement entour par les niveaux suprieurs de la galerie commerciale existante. Limmeuble de bureaux en L revtu de cuivre dlimite le volume dun atrium entirement vitr qui diffuse sa lumire par les fentres intrieures. Cet espace senfonce dans le btiment original pour dispenser la lumire du jour et se prter la circulation verticale.

Hannele Kuusisto /Chris Hodson

Les alentours ont dcid du matriau

Selon Olli Rouhiainen, des architectes CJN, le contexte historico-culturel du centre ville et la proximit de nombreux btiments recouverts de cuivre sont les deux facteurs importants qui ont conduit choisir le cuivre comme revtement. Lemplacement surlev exigeait un matriau prestigieux et les btiments principaux de la galerie commerciale taient dj recouverts de cuivre.

Les faades de la banque Evli prsentent du cuivre pr-patin piquet de taches vertes qui rvlent un peu de loxyde fonc sous-jacent. Cela leur confre un aspect vari et vivant. Le matriau est utilis sous deux formes : en feuilles courbes formant une surface module et continue et en un systme horizontal dauvents profils pour crer la transparence. Des sections dauvents profondes de 90 mm sont fixes aux profils dassemblage, la surface de cuivre sombre et oxyd, au moyen de rivets rsistants aux acides. La combinaison des faades profiles et ajoures, soulignes par leurs surfaces vivantes de cuivre prpatin, enrichit les tons verts dont la capitale finlandaise aime shabiller.

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Vue en coupe du centre commercial montrant la position du nouveau btiment sur le toit.

Architectes : Arkkitehtitoimisto CJN Oy Installateur du cuivre : Suomen Ohutlevyasennus Oy, Lai-Ters Oy (systme dauvents)

Produits en cuivre : Tles profiles vives Nordic Green et systme dauvents anims Nordic Green Photos : Matti Kallio

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by Chris Hodson

Timeless

COPPER
In its inspirational rural setting at the foot of Italys Monferrato Hills, Rocca Civalieri was the summer sanctuary of Piedmontese nobles from the late Middle Ages. The villa and its associated buildings have now been restored, adapted and drawn together by a thoroughly contemporary, copper-clad intervention which fully respects the original building fabric, to create a convention centre, hotel and spa.

A timeless skin of pre-oxidised copper is used to express the new additions, starting as a rusticated base to the original classical villa. The horizontally stratified dark copper then develops into a new spa building which defines and divides separate external areas either side. The overall composition aims to create a place with clearly recognizable connotations respecting the existing architectonic and landscape values. As architect Stefania Masera explained: The demands of a building complex accommodating various different functions but still presenting itself as unitary whole suggested the creation of new circulation routes on two levels leading into a new addition. This addition then defines a new, open, main entrance courtyard to the complex. It also establishes, in conjunction with existing buildings now converted to bedrooms and suites, a more intimate courtyard characterised by a central, light timber pergola structure. The copper additions draw together the diversity of buildings and their spatial organisation, creating a place with clearly recognizable connotations.

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Alterations to the original fabric have been minimised and focused on the creation of flexible spaces to meet changing needs of the complex. On the ground floor, in addition to entrance, reception and bar, there are various communal and meeting rooms. The first floor houses a conference room with a small foyer and restaurant with kitchen and staff room, and hotel rooms and suites occupy the second floor.
Architects: Studio Baietto Battiato Bianco Associated Architects www.baiettobattiatobianco.com Copper Installer: ????????? Copper Product: TECU Oxid Photos: Studio Baietto Battiato Bianco - Torino TO

Site plan

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South-East facade

South-West facade

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by Chris Hodson

Copper Roofs
Commissioned in 1876, the Filtry Waterworks was designed by British engineer William Lindley, who had previously gained recognition working with railways and, particularly, municipal infrastructure projects in numerous European cities. He designed the first underground sewers in continental Europe and, together with his sons, he designed systems for cities in Germany and elsewhere including St. Petersburg, Budapest, Prague and Moscow also turning his attention to urban planning. At Warsaw, he created a water purification system that continued to operate until the latest regeneration work. Here, he also collaborated with the architect Julian Herde with a complex of buildings generally faced with red ceramic tiles and decorative sandstone elements. Roofs were metal sheet on structural steel and windows steel-framed. A key aspect of Filtrys success in its urban context is the green landscape covering about 70% of the site area. This unique and historic infrastructure complex is protected locally and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Pure Water under

Upgrading Performance
The well-loved landmark endured various changes after the 19th-century including additions in the 1970s which took no account of the local environment and attached no importance to the original buildings scale and form. In the mid-1980s, restoration of the original buildings began under the current architect, Richard Sobolewski of Dorjon International, including replacement of the zinc-coated iron plate roofs with copper. Technical and performance requirements have driven the latest, recently completed new treatment building. Water quality has now been improved within modern parameters and in line with European Union standards, and the use of chlorine dioxide for water disinfection and treatment has also been substantially reduced.

With thanks to Richard Sobolewski of Dorjon International for help with this article. Architect: Dorjon International Copper Products: Nordic Brown Light Copper Installer: Eurodach, Piaseczno Photos: Sebastian Taciak (new building exteriors), Richard Sobolewski (original buildings and interior)

Site Plan, showing the 30ha complex, with the new building highlighted red and original 19th century buildings black.

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The regeneration of a remarkable 19th-century water treatment complex serving Warsaw takes a traditional approach with steeply-pitched copper roofs above brick walls, referencing without copying the style of the original architecture.

Original 19th century buildings (shown black on the Site Plan) have already been restored with copper roofs.

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The architects faced major challenges in accommodating the complex technical demands of the plant upgrade. From an architectural perspective, they have taken the original buildings as their reference point. They have rejected the notion of introducing modern forms and interventions as a contrast to the remaining fabric. Instead, they have embraced the architectural language of massive 19th century infrastructure buildings. Richard Sobolewski commented: We have not replicated the original architecture

ding dominate internally. Natural daylighting plays an important role where appropriate, via generous provision of rooflights and substantial vertical glazing.

Bringing Life to Surfaces

The problem of large windowless faades, dictated by buildings of this type, has been successfully resolved by planted embankments, creating a park-like landscape, as well as contrasting material textures and colours. The interplay of surfaces is also emphasised by the way the roofs are faceted and shaped. Different forms of pre-oxidised copper sheet have been used, including standing-seams alternating with the wider batten-role joints to generate a rhythm across the long-strip installation. It is particularly appropriate that such a large amount of copper roof surface is used on a complex dedicated to the delivery of clean water to a citys population. This is a clear reminder of coppers long history in serving us with safe water within our homes.

but have developed a similar character for the new block using modern materials. Extensive copper roofing plays a central role here and gives the permanence that buildings of this type merit.
Key to the architects approach is the differentiation of architectural forms for individual building elements. For example, steeply pitched roofs with strongly expressed gables covering particular areas contrast with landscaped green roofs over the main filter hall. Dramatic interiors result from the large spaces generated by this type of infrastructure building, and brick and ceramic clad-

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Architects team31 explain the rationale behind contemporary interventions to a traditional Luxembourg village house.
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he owners of this 19th century cottage in a small village north of Luxembourg decided that they would retire there. The house, as it was, had the charm of an old cottage but did not offer the required comfort for a main
Photo: Paulo Lobo Luxedit

residence. The attached barn was being used as a garage and shed and the idea was to transform this huge empty volume into a new living room with a kitchen and to alter the existing cottage as little as possible. Various considerations influenced our design. The existing cottage has very small windows which give uninteresting views of neighbouring buildings, roofs and streets. The owners wanted views of their own property, gardens and the landscape. The existing stairs in the cottage were narrow, too steep and considered to be dangerous. It was decided that they should be replaced with wider and less steep staircases for safety and comfort.

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As the cottage will now be used by older people wishing to spend the rest of their lives there, it seemed obvious to design the layout in preparation for potential future mobility issues. As a result, it was necessary to locate a kitchen, living room, office, sanitary facilities and sleeping rooms all on the ground floor of the building, whilst retaining the possibility of a second, independent living space in necessary to clearly define the new parts of the building and the existing 19th century building. The owners wished to retain the authenticity of the existing cottage, which was probably built between 1805 and 1820.
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the cottage. From an architectural point of view, we considered it

Designers Response
Working with the interior designer, our analysis of the owners proposal rapidly revealed that the barn was not big enough to accommodate the new living room and kitchen. Moreover, there were not enough windows on the facade to allow sufficient light into the living room and they did not offer the desired views of the landscape and the property. It was therefore obvious that an extension was necessary. In accordance with the wishes of the owners, the forms of the new volumes signal a contrast between our way of living now and the way we lived some 200 years ago. As a result, the old and the new are interrelated - yet provide a contrasting effect. The transition from old to new does not operate on one precise borderline but rather by the effects of transparency and sightlines from old to new and vice versa. The new, very large plate glass windows open the perspectives up to the more set back location of the cottage. The old cottage has been kept in its original

Photo: Paulo Lobo Luxedit

state (almost), with its configuration of small rooms, low ceilings and exposed beams and old stone and parquet floors. The facades and roofs of the new volumes are characterised by a covering of copper used here as a modern material. It is both rustic and modern, and with a visual appearance that develops in sympathy with the rural setting in the north of the country.

Architects: team31 architecture office (Folmer/Rodesch/Weyland) www.team31.lu Interior Designer: Laurent Biever Copper Installer: KALBFUSS GMBH Copper Products: TECU Classic and TECU Zinn

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Copper rustic and modern... developing in sympathy with the rural setting.

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BOX TOP
An undistinguished 1970s office building in the Netherlands has been transformed with a rooftop extension encased by a transparent copper skin enveloping the original building.
The building owners, Trinit Automation Uithoorn (NL), sought to office building. As well as upgrading with higher energy performance and other improvements, the project also needed to create more space. This was achieved with a rooftop extension providing a canteen and meeting rooms, as well as a large multi-purpose seminar room. Here, high, sloping ceilings give a distinctive character to the internal space.
Photo: Erik ten Hove

by Chris Hodson

express the companys innovative nature in the expansion of their

Original office building before alteration.

Integrating Intervention
box-like form, firmly integrated into the existing building fabric and reacting with existing facades not just a new storey sat on top. The new box is completely covered in a transparent copper mesh skin, simply passing over windows, frames and solid walls behind, providing a seamless continuum expressing the geometric shape of the addition.
Cross section showing new roof level intervention.
Drawing: Erik ten Hove

Externally, the intervention is conceived as a three dimensional

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The designers, Architektenburo Ten Hove, commented:

We deliberately chose copper for the mesh skin, where the colour of the material naturally changes over time and therefore indicates the age of the building. Using a grid of equilateral triangles gives
freedom from the constraints of linear structures and, with the copper mesh, diffuses the box surfaces externally. But internally, the mesh screen still allows clear views to the outside while providing solar shading, and inward opening windows allow ventilation and cleaning.

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Copper products: TECUClassic Mesh Photos: Hans van Nieuwkoop, Erik ten Hove

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Copper for house on the rock

Regeneration of this 19th century London church involved an extensive refurbishment programme to return the building to its former use. But it also involved a modern extension to provide a permanent home for the growing, 3,000 or so, congregation of the Nigerian-based House on the Rock church, as architects Paul Davis + Partners describe.

St Georges Church in the Tufnell Park Conservation Area was built in 1867 as a historical, circular building based on a 5th Century Greek Church and modelled on Shakespeares Globe Theatre. The building has had a colourful past. Saved from demolition in 1973, actor George Murcell turned the church into the St Georges Theatre. More recently it fell into the hands of squatters and it was only when they were finally evicted in 2006 that the project was able to commence. As well as its primary function as a church, the building is also used as a community
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centre, adult learning centre, crche and a venue for other social events. To meet these demands, a new, copper-clad extension creates a contemporary architectural solution contrasting with the church aesthetic, yet remaining subservient to the original building and making no attempt to emulate its style. This modern 2-storey extension links the existing church and the bell tower and provides flexible multi-purpose spaces to meet the needs of both church and community. The new intervention is separated from the original fabric of the church by a continuous band of glazing.

Matching the contemporary materiality of the new building with the stone and slate of the existing church provided a welcome opportunity to explore solutions for an ever-occurring challenge. Copper, with timber cladding and glass, provided the answer with a naturally changing surface and an air of permanence. The designers endeavoured to minimise energy demand by considering the embodied energy of materials and using recycled materials wherever possible.

Copper... a naturally changing surface and an air of permanence

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A gradual regeneration is taking place to the ancient Ribadavia Castle in the Ourense area of north-west Spain, heralded by new brass elements transforming the entrances to the castle. Architect Miguel Angel Calvo Salve describes his approach to these interventions, which add an ageless simplicity and sense of permanence.
Since 1999 we have been working on a lengthy process of study, research, consolidation and retrieval of the remains of Ribadavia Castle. The remains are extremely fragile due to their abandonment and the neglect of local government in the past. Ribadavia Castle is located within the historic area of the village and was built incorporating the old wall and supported by a series of circular and square towers on a large rock outcrop. There is no record of the earliest human settlement, apart from the fact that a necropolis and a temple existed in the upper part of the town, where the castle now stands.

Architect: Miguel Angel Calvo Salve Copper Specialist: Aceros Argimiro Photos: Miguel Angel Calvo Salve

Establishing a Methodology
We believe that maintaining, transforming or reusing this historic building requires at least that we understand its physical and emotional realities, in its present state and throughout its history. Through very careful observation and systematic documentation, intensive research of historical sources, technical analysis, study of pathologies, identification of traces and memories, and finally a reflective intuition, we have established a methodology expressed in a Master Plan for this castle that will substantiate the basis for future interventions in the monument, thus creating the potential for its transformation and reuse.

Strength and Malleability

A part of the intervention was to design the entrances to the ruins of the Castle. It was decided to make various individual elements in brass, and also bronze, to give a jewel-like quality amongst the ancient building fabric. These included access bridges with stairs, gateway doors and exhibition display elements. The choice of brass was based on its qualities as a material that ages with time, developing a patina just as the stone walls have done. Its strength and malleability was essential in the creation of these disparate elements.

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The brass main doors appear impenetrable with a strong silhouette and square apertures reminiscent of a portcullis.

Smaller brass doors in the Necropolis share the open linear grid.

Simple, folded brass elements are used to hold information display boards.

The choice of brass was based on its qualities as a material that ages with time, developing a patina just as the stone walls have done.

The brass Necropolis door is more open in character with a linear grid highlighting the stone archway.

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URBAN SHELL
Architect Luisa Fontana explains how a shell-like copper and glass intervention regenerates a disused public bath house and reorientates the building to define a new urban square.
The original, early 20th century building had been unused for over 40 years and its previously hidden, undistinguished rear faade was exposed by the creation of a new public square in the 1980s. The restoration and expansion of the building provided an opportunity to redefine a new urban role. The European funded project is for a new Centre for Cultural Activities for Youth and is unique in Italy. It provides a link between the University and the World of Employment, creating an international focus to serve the local community.

Rear facade of the disused bath house before addition and renovation.

A Bold Approach
The regeneration carried out in conjunction with engineers Arup (structure and energy strategies) and Manens (installation) reflects a bold architectural and urban planning approach. It involves restoration of the original building and addition of a new volume, in the form of shell made of steel, copper and glass. The profile of the shell develops a close relationship with its urban context. It is
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erforated brise soleil that protect the interior from direct sunlight, and characterised by different heights. A second opening smaller and varying in shape, is on the north side, opposite the old buildings.

Floor Plan and Urban Context

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Energy Independent
The building is also an example of smart design and energy self-sufficiency, to minimise energy consumption and carbon emissions. Dynamic thermal modelling software, developed for the Arup building energy simulation, enabled solutions to be optimized and energy saving benefits quantified. The project has achieved an A certification in the Eco Domus energy class with a system developed by VI. Energy. The result is an integrated organism, energy independent from the network, where climate and environment interact. Various renewable techniques are incorporated including geothermal energy, the pre-heating of primary air through an underground maze and self-generation of electricity using biodiesel. The design optimizes natural lighting and ventilation, while the building materials provide a high performance, thermal inertia envelope.

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