Exteriors
Educational Copper
materials defining the new St John’s Primary School, Ealing, London, designed by Conran and Partners with detailed design by executive architects Gibberd. Conran and Partners’ idea for a new school
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grew out of their proposals for the ongoing regeneration of Green Man Lane estate. With an exchange of land, the existing school could remain operational while a new one was constructed. Configured as a three-storey structure, the new school building sits along the site boundary edge, creating a strong street form and conveying a mature learning environment while giving the school its own distinct identity. The entrance is demarcated by a floating,
oblique form – clad in Nordic Brown copper with defined vertical seams – informing the design detail throughout. A glazed corner
ordic Brown pre-oxidised copper from Aurubis forms part of the restrained palette of natural
provides transparency and signifies both the main school entrance and the circulation axis through the building. The strong vertical emphasis of the street elevation will set the school apart from the proposed neighbouring residential components of the development. A restrained palette of natural materials
has been selected throughout the new school – from weathered buff brick to the Nordic Brown pre-oxidised copper – to reinforce the design narratives. These materials provide robustness and warmth, while blending seamlessly with the material palette of the wider masterplan for Green Man Lane estate. Nordic Brown products are pre-oxidised
at the Aurubis factory to give straightaway the same oxidised brown surface that otherwise develops over time in the environment. The thickness of the oxide layer determines the colour – either Nordic Brown Light or the darker Nordic Brown – and the darkening oxidisation process continues in the natural environment. Other Nordic Copper surfaces include
Nordic Standard ‘mill finish’. Nordic Green and Nordic Blue are factory-applied patinas developed with properties and colours based on the same brochantite mineralogy found in natural patinas all over the world.
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Essentially, they enable designers to determine both the colour and intensity of patina for each project with ‘living’ surfaces: as well as a solid patina colour, other intensities can be created revealing some of the dark oxidised background material. Aurubis copper alloys include Nordic Brass
– also available pre-weathered – Nordic Bronze and the innovative Nordic Royal with a long-lasting golden colour.
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Nordic Copper skyline crowns the new Ram Quarter
highlighted by its rooftop cladding of Nordic Green Living 1 pre-patinated copper, reflecting the site’s industrial heritage. Greenland Group UK, the developer of
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Ram Quarter, was keen that the site’s material specification should help to reflect the history of the site and deliver high-quality design and long-term durability. EPR Architects, the appointed architectural
practice for the scheme, was tasked with ensuring that the development design complemented both the industrial character of the site and its transformation into a residential neighbourhood. Inspired by old copper brewing vessels, the architects decided to clad the upper two floors of the tallest residential buildings in Nordic Green Living 1 copper. Adjacent to the old brewery complex, a playful vertical expression was added to one of the new
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buildings – a nod to the industrial vats that were once housed on the site – raised from the ground, with softer rounded corners and vertically-ribbed profiled Nordic Green copper cladding. In addition to Nordic Green, extensive
Nordic Blue and Nordic Turquoise ranges have been developed. All these surfaces form an integral part of the copper and are not coatings or paint, and ongoing changes will continue over time depending on the local environment. As well as the solid patina colours, ‘living’ surfaces provide various intensities of patina flecks revealing some of the dark oxidised background material. Other Nordic Copper ranges from Aurubis
include Nordic Standard ‘mill finish’ and Nordic Brown pre-oxidised copper, offering lighter or darker shades of brown determined by the thickness of the oxide layer. A wide choice of Nordic Decor mechanically applied surface treatments is also available. Nordic Copper alloys include Nordic Brass – which
can also be supplied pre-weathered – Nordic Bronze and the innovative Nordic Royal, an alloy of copper with aluminium and zinc, enjoying a rich golden through-colour which remains very stable.
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