exteriors


Aliva UK proves heritage credentials with curved stone façade


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LIVA, the façade design and engineering company, has supplied lightweight stone cladding for new


student accommodation in Newcastle city centre. Working closely with Fuse Architects


and the client, Select Property, Aliva delivered an innovative curved stone facade that aligned the building with the adjacent Victorian architecture, while giving a distinct, individual feel. Located in a prominent site near the


exit to Newcastle’s central station, the 259 luxury studios required a high-end finish that was sensitive to local


architecture and would fit the unified identity of all the buildings in the area The £16m building is aimed at the


growing number of international and post-graduate students arriving in the city. Vita Newcastle boasts a state-of-the-art student hub with reception, lounge, games area, gym and group study space. Aliva supplied 1,000 sqm of traditional


natural buff sandstone, using a lightweight Aliva Air panel for the main body of the building. Replicating the traditional sandstone blockwork of adjoining properties would have been too costly, cumbersome and not feasible


within the build timeline. Aliva managing director, James


Ormerod, said: “This is one of the first buildings you see when you arrive in the city by train, so it was imperative that we developed a design that tied in with the classic, ornate local architecture. We also needed to give the building a distinctive, contemporary look. Our approach was not to copy what had gone before, but to learn from it and apply our own modern twist.”


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Shackerley’s façade system ‘elevates’ Royal Holloway Library Building


S HACKERLEY’S SureClad® ceramic


granite ventilated façade system has been used to create the optical


illusion of an ‘elevated’ building at Royal Holloway, University of London’s new Library and Student Services Centre, The Emily Wilding Davison Building. Designed by Associated Architects, who


have previously specified the SureClad®


system for the University of


Birmingham’s £44m library, the new £42m Emily Wilding Davison Building is BREEAM Excellent and EPC A-rated. The building features the SureClad®


system at ground floor level in a textured charcoal grey ‘Rio Black Strutt’ ceramic granite. Combined with glazing, this darker, recessed ground floor creates the impression that the building is open at ground floor level, providing contrast with the lighter upper storeys, which appear to


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be ‘lifted’ off the ground. Joe Belcher, Associated Architects, commented: “The SureClad® ceramic


granite panels supplied by Shackerley continue the theme of traditional materials being used in a contemporary way at The Emily Wilding Davison Building and provide a tonal match with the glazing and spandrel glass at floor zones, along with a pleasing contrast with the sandstone groundscape paving. “The riven texture and panellised layout of façade elements also create


the SureClad®


increasing visual interest on approaching the building, becoming more apparent at closer range to provide different levels of engagement based on proximity.” Shackerley prefabricated installation-


ready 1196 x 596mm panels for the ground floor elevations and worked closely with façade engineering specialist,


Fassaden + Architektur + Technik (FAT), to meet the requirements of the complex detailing and interface requirements.


www.shackerley.com www.associated-architects.co.uk www.fatfacades.co.uk


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