8 NEWS PERFORATED ALUMINIUM
Coffey Architects’ perforated office completes in King’s Cross
22 Handyside Street, a new office building designed by Coffey Architects, has now completed, featuring a skewed, pitched roof and a perforated aluminium facade. The building is located on the corner of Handyside Street and York Way within the 67-acre King’s Cross development. Internally, the design looks to maximise the use of light and space to promote wellness for the building’s occupiers. It spans over 36,000 ft2
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BREEAM Outstanding. The building’s form was determined by three factors, said the architects: the position of the sun, the site perimeter and the site’s structural grid. Like its neighbouring building, the King’s Cross Sports Hall, 22 Handyside Street sits above underground railway tunnels meaning it “needed to be super lightweight,” said
Coffey Architects. Responding to these elements, they shifted the three-storey building diagonally. This helped “balance the weight of the building” as well as improving the orientation for maintaining heat and maximising the views out. 22 Handyside Street is built of lightweight concrete and steel, with a facade composed of glazed curtain walling and perforated aluminium panels. These silver sections “enliven the building both inside and out, with perforations artfully reflecting the trees of Handyside Gardens,” said the architects. The material “maximises ambient light levels and reflects the colours of the London sky throughout the day.” Behind the patterned facade, its interior spaces are naturally lit. To further improve wellbeing, Coffey Architects worked with Townshend
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Landscape Architects to enhance the public realm with planting to the east including seating and pockets of planting and cycle parking to the south.
Colorado museum has facade of 9,000 diamond alu panels ANODISED ALUMINIUM
American architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) have announced the recent completion of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, located at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs. DS+R’s design incorporates around 20,000 square feet of galleries, a 130-person auditorium, event spaces, and a cafe. The 60,000 ft2
museum
showcases the accomplishments of athletes at the games while displaying the history of the national team. At the centre of the complex, a terraced hardscape plaza provides views of surrounding mountains. The building’s facade features over 9,000 folded anodised diamond-shaped aluminium panels, the skin wrapping four overlapping petal-like volumes that spiral around the internal structure. Each metallic panel is “animated by the light quality in Colorado Springs,” said the
architects, producing gradients of colour and shade that give the building “another sense of motion and dynamism.” The aluminium, developed by Lorin Industries, was selected as it was lighter than other materials such as stainless steel. With less material being required, the supporting structure no longer needed to be as expensive to hold up the facade panels. The panels are 100 per cent recyclable, helping to meet the project’s LEED requirements.
Working alongside a committee of Paralympic athletes and people with disabilities, the architects’ design is said to have created one of the most accessible museums in the world. “From entrance to exit, people with or without disabilities can tour the facility together and share a common path,” said the architects. All visitors ascend to the top floor by lift, and ramps guide them down a gentle-grade downhill circulation path that enables easier movement.
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