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EditorialWelcome to a new issue o Copper Forum. In this

issue, we hope to give our readers new and resh

examples o architectural creativity, rom an inter-

national perspective, where copper has been used

to give the nal important touch o perection.

Architect Chris Hodson reports rom the Copper

in Architecture Award 2007 ceremony, which

was held in London at the end o last year. A total

o 74 building projects rom dierent parts o Eu-

rope had been entered to the contest! Te jury had

the dicult task to select a winner rom the large

starting eld o high-class design; rom large-scale

industrial projects to smaller residential-building

projects. We will also take a closer look at the win-

ning entry the Jewish Centre in Munich.

Tere is a noticeable trend in Europe to use copper

as aade materia l. We have visited a ew newly-

built projects around Europe where copper was

used as aade cladding, oten industrially pre-

nished modules.

We will also visit the new Aggtelek Visiting Centrein the Hungarian National Park Aggtelek, where

only natural materials, such as copper, wood and

lime stone, were selected to create a weatherproo

surace or the organic main body o the building.

Finally, I would like to take the opportunity to

thank all o you who have sent us photos and told

us about your work and how you have used copper

or both small and large projects. Tanks to your

contributions we are able to produce a magazine

with breath and international fair. Please continue

to keep in touch with our editorial sta when youhave comments or exciting projects to tell us about.

Lennart Engstrm, Editor

Cppe Fm Apl 2008

Copper Forum is part o the on going European Copper In architecture Campaigne, and is published twise a year andhas a circulation o 19.000 copies.

The magazine is distributed to architects and proessional in the building construction industry in Russia, Poland, Denmark,Norway, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic and UK.

Et: Lennart Engstrm, tel +46 706574734, ax + 46 21198704, [email protected]

Ae: Copper Forum c/o Outokumpu Copper Products AB, Metallverksgatan 5, Box 510, SE-721 09 Vsters, Sweden

Pble: Lennart Engstrm, Luvata Pori OY

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Ptg: Intellecta Strlins 2006, Sweden

Etal taff:

Mogens Praestegaard, Danmark +45 40285157 [email protected] Svedman, Sweden +46 2119 82 50 [email protected] Rudidalen, Norway +47 2324 7469 [email protected] Thtinen, Finland +358 26266612 [email protected] Savola, Finland +358 26266111 [email protected] Zhigalina, Ryssland +7 8123202050 [email protected] Ionov, Russia +7 0957872792 [email protected] Sawicki, Poland +48 (22)8258252 [email protected] Zakrzewski, Poland +48 717812504 [email protected] Pinter, Czech Republic +36 12664810 [email protected] Kratochvle, Czech Republic +42 0261122542 [email protected] Robinson, UK +44 (0)1992511117 robbie. robinson@luv ata.com

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Expansion o CEntraMarKus aaLtonEn, arCHitECt saa

or areas

Te expansion project signicantly changes

both the appearance and the unctions o the

entrance courtyard o the Central Hospital.

Te extensive shelter over the main entrance

protects the entrance area. Te glass walls o

the shelter protect the ambulance entrance

rom sideways rain and the grates improve

the privacy o patients arriving in ambulanc-

es by limiting direct visibility down rom the

main entrance ramp.

A new maintenance courtyard enclosed by

a wall is built at the east end o the expansion,

below the parking area.

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Despite its small size, the extension changes

the appearance o the whole hospital build-ing due to its central location. Te acade so-

lution was selected to display a modern hos-

pital image. Te eaves line o the acade is at

the same height with the lower section o the

existing hospital building. Tis makes the

expansion a part o a pedestal or the central

tower, which remains the dominant eature

o the building. Te common long eaves line

o the extension and the main entrance shel-

ter emphasises this impression.

Te material is pre-patinated copper cas-

sette, which is practically maintenance-reeand thanks to excellent weather resistance

has low lie cycle costs. Te copper creates a

contrast to the existing expanded-aggregate

concrete acade. Te strongly proled con-

crete o the old section was the starting point

or the design o the acade. Te openings

and the prole o the extension respect the

themes o the existing acade.

ncns

Te rst foor o the extension is reserved or

emergency reception, new magnetic imag-

ing acilities, lounges or meetings, rooms or

pastoral carers, a patient hotel and adminis-

trative oces. Te patient hotel oers accom-

modation services to out-o-town patients. In

the uture, the emergency reception acilities

will become part o the common emergency

area. Te oncology unit, as well as acilities

or general hospital psychiatry, nutrition

therapy and administrative unctions are lo-

cated on the second foor. Te lower so-called

hillside foor contains the pharmacy storage,

and acilities o the central warehouse, tech-

nical sta, appliance maintenance and equip-

ment maintenance.

Arm

Te ull-height atrium between the expan-

sion and the existing building is covered with

a curved lantern that hints at the shapes o

the Lappish hills. Te solid roo o the lan-

tern creates a ruled surace, and the vertical

north side o the lantern is glass, allowing

natural light into the atrium.

Te atrium is in eect an empty space in the

middle o the various unctions. I let as an

outdoor area, it would be very dicult to

maintain. A covered atrium was considereda worthwhile solution, as it results in sav-

ings, making the building envelope smaller

and both building and operating costs lower.

Te atrium also serves as a recreational area

or the sta and the patients, which can be

considered an additional bonus. A Japanese

rock garden and a retreat area are built in the

atrium, and it can also be used as a venue or

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the area o the shelter is ca. 650 m2.

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Housing corporation As Oy

ampereen SuvantopuistoIn terms o the townscape, the starting pointwas to adapt the building to the redbrick tradi-

tion ound on the banks o River ammerkoski.

Te building delimits Nalkalantori square as a

block-wide redbrick entity identiable in scale

with the old redbrick actories in ampere, with

a curved building mass in green pre-patinated

copper towering over it. Te solid block-like na-

ture o the main aades has been emphasised

by replacing apartment balconies with semi-warm conservatories located behind the build-

ing aades.

Te building aces east, the main viewing direc-

tion being towards Ratina backwater. Te apart-

ments could not be designed to ace west due to

the parking house that borders the building plot

on the west side.

Functionally the building is a twin-block

residential acility or the elderly, with various

services and stores on the ground foor, such as a

restaurant, a gym and an assembly room, as well

as physiotherapy acilities. wo sheltered hous-

ing units are located on the ground foor and the

rst foor, and apartments on the upper foors

vary rom bedsits to 3 bedroom apartments.

Most o the apartments are single and double bed-

room fats. Parking space is provided in a basement

parking garage.

Te building has been implemented utilising

highly versatile technical systems: foating foor

structures ensure good sound insulation, the heat-

ing system is a radiant in-foor heating system, and

ventilation is completely mechanical and equipped

with a heat recovery system. An automatic re extin-

guishing system covers all the areas o the building.

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Archec QUAD arkkitehdit OyArchitect Ilkka Laitinen, design stageArkkitehtitoimisto Ilkka Laitinen, building stagedeveler YH Lnsi Oydesgn-bl cnracr Lujatalo OyFloor area 7 200 m2Volume 34 900 m2

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Te ve-storey oce block near the K-

pyl station is the rst building stage o

FCG Centre. Te core o the building

is the ull-height entrance lobby, which

is delimited by a tall glass wall stiened

with tension reinorcement. Te lobby

continues as an assembly terrace betweenthe buildings. Both oce wings utilise

the foor-specic unctions and coneren-

ce rooms located in a six-storey tower

suspended rom the roo structures o the

lobby.

Te central solution o the oce wings

is based on dividability, eciency and

fexibility. Te number o load-bearing

structures and xed installations has

been minimised. Separate lanes are reser-

ved in the suspended ceiling or building

services. Te foor levels are supported on

beams in the external wall line without

any columns that would restrict the mo-

diability o the central area.

Te attic foor contains sauna acili-

ties, meeting rooms and a roo terrace.

Srcres an maerals

Te aades towards Osmontie Road and

uusulanvyl Road are primarily built

o thermo prole panels with pre-pati-

nated copper cladding installed on the

site. Te continuous aades are plastered

sandwich panels. Te appearance o the

lobby area is dominated by wooden ve-

neer cladding.

Te load-bearing columns and beams are

precast concrete units, and the interme-

diate foors are hollow-core slabs.

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his team consisting o Pirjo Sanaksenaho

and Enrico based the design on sh, the

symbol o Christianity. Tereore the

chapel is called Ikhtys, which is Greek

and means sh. Te layout as well as the

appearance o the chapel imitates a sh.

However, some also see it as a boat tur-

ned upside down. Te building is loca-

ted on a wooded hilltop with a hospice

and an oncological hospital nearby. Tus

the chapel serves the distressed as well asthose seeking or peace and tranquillity.

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Te materials used in the chapel are

wood and copper. Teir abundance gives

the building a peaceul and stately ap-

pearance. Oxidization has already tur-

ned the initially clear copper cladding

dark. Te chapel may gradually acquire a

patina on its surace due to the vicinity o

the sea and the surrounding conditions.

Te use o copper was a conscious deci-

sion by Architect Matti Sanaksenaho as

copper is such a vivid material, in act,

art designed by Mother Nature. echni-

cally speaking, the curved shapes o the

walls and working on a man lit were areal challenge to Sheet Metal Worker Jari

Lehtinen, who was alone responsible or

the copper installations. Te same sh

theme is repeated in the rhythm o the

seams o the banded material. Finnish

pinewood is used inside the chapel, whe-

re evenly spaced massive beams make the

interior an impressive work o art. A long

aisle leads to a simple altar, onto which

daylight is ltered beautiully through

high windows. Te altar was designed bythe late Kain apper.

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Wg degOver the past ew years St Henriks Art Chapel has won several

awards. In 2005 the chapel was awarded the annual Wood Pri-

ze by a popular vote. Te prize was received by Kalevi Narmala

o Design Firm Narmaplan Oy. In the same year the chapel

also won the Roo o the Year competition. Tis year Architect

Matti Sanaksenaho received the 60 000-euro Barbara Cappo-

chi International Grand Prix Architectural Prize, which is gi-ven in Italy every other year. Te prize particularly ocuses on

architecture that maintains the message o hope, optimism and

peace. All these properties are combined in a very special way

in the urku Ecumenical Art Chapel. Te prize was awarded to

Matti Sanaksenaho in Padova in October 2007.

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Te largest shopping and strolling area in Gothenburg, Sweden, is called theAvenue. Here, small, cosy restaurants can be ound in every block along the

boulevard. On warm summer evenings, when Gothenburgs night lie is star-

ting up, cas and restaurants are quickly lled. Tis is where people go to

meet old riends and make new acquaintances. One o the many restaurants

along the Avenue, the Corazon, recently opened a brand new outdoor section,

where the concept is a number o copper tents. Te tents are constructed

o fat copper sheet that has been perorated, which allows the guests to look

out through the walls and yet be protected rom the elements. Te concept

gives people the comort o being in an enclosed area, and at the same time be

part o the nightlie on the Avenue. Our guess is that the Corazon copper tent

will be one o the most popular watering holes along Gothenburgs mainboulevard during the coming summer.

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AWARd WiNNERS ANNouNCEdIn the last issue of Copper Forum (23/2007) we featured all the projects short-listed for the 2007 Copper

n Archecre Awars. Nw we are able hghlgh he wnners, annnce a a resenan cer-emn n Lnn las amn. ths ceremn rve be a arclarl lvel even wh an exhbn

an rjec resenans b her esgners - brngng geher archecs, cnracrs an her clens

rm arn Ere an rearmng he lar cer as a mern archecral maeral.

he Copper in Architecture Awardsprogramme considers architecturalprojects rom around Europe using cop-

per in all its orms. Te team o experi-

enced architect judges - led by Paul Finch,Editor o Architectural Review magazine

and joined or the rst time this year by

the winner o the last European Award

Kari Jarvinen rom Finland ocused

on the quality o architectural design.

Te 2007 entries revealed an exceptional

diversity o important buildings rom

various countries many not yet widely

known or published amongst the 74

entries received. Tis year, the judges

task was made particularly dicult by

the exceptional quality o entries but, a-

ter much deliberation, awards were made

rom the six projects short-listed or the

European category.

Te European Winner was the Jewish

Centre in Munich designed by Wandel

Hoeer Lorch Architekten. Tis impres-

sive project discussed in more detail

in the building eature on page 24-27

includes a veil o woven bronze mesh sur-

mounting the rusticated stone base o the

synagogue building. Te choice o ma-

terials has symbolic relevance inormed

by Jewish culture but is also particularly

eective architecturally. Tis deceptively

simple elegance and use o materials won

the judges over.

Tree other contrasting projects were also

Highly Commended or their exception-

al qualities. Te judges were particularly

impressed with the careul, crated de-

sign o Jarmund/Vigsns AS ArchitectsSvalbard Science Centre with its long,

low, aceted copper prole. o nd archi-

tecture o the highest standard in such a

remote, arctic location and successully

meeting such major technical challeng-

es is exciting. All those involved in the

design and construction o this beauti-

ul building deserve congratulation or

this achievement. Also rewarded or its

exceptional quality was the Teatre in

Vicar, Spain, by Carbajal + Solinas Verd

Arquitectos. Tis design takes a radical

approach to cladding fat suraces, using

a combination o brass, bronze and plain

copper strips which also led to it winning

an Innovation Award. But the judges

considered its design as more than in-

novative and, in the strong Spanish sun-

light, the visual eect is simply stunning.

Also Highly Commended, the Kumu

Art Musem in allinn, Estonia was de-

signed by Vapaavuori Architects. Unlike

many other entries, the orm o copper

cladding is straightorward but nonethe-

less essential to the overall composition.

Te judges regarded this major cultural

building, with its clear national identity,

as an elegant solution to the complexities

presented by buildings o this type.

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he judges also wanted to acknowl-edge the excellent standard o en-tries generally and two other short-listed

projects in particular. Lands Architet-

tures Une Bote Moire is a modest scale

copper box in the Swiss countryside, us-ing rich combinations o copper cladding

and perorated screens. In contrast, the

Skive CHP Station in Denmark show-

casing the new biomass technology with

sustainable copper cladding designed

by C. F. Mller Architects, is an exem-

plary utility building designed with a

real architectural response.

Separately rom the European catego-

ry, the Copper in Architecture Awards

continue with recognition o the best UK

projects. Winner o the UK category was

Keith Williams Architects Unicorn Te-

atre in London. Te cool, calm approach

taken with this landmark building and a

careul use o materials singled it out or

the Award. In addition, two other projects

were Commended. Allies and Morrisons

landmark Planetarium in Greenwich in-

corporates beautiul surace treatments

to the smooth bronze cone, while Feilden

Clegg Bradleys Formby Swimming Pool

gives an elegant understated solution to a

public building. Finally, the Awards pro-

gramme does not orget about our uturedesigners with special Awards or Stu-

dents o Architecture, or those who help

make architects concepts a reality with

Awards or Cratsmanship o the highest

standard.

Planning has already started or the

next Copper in Architecture Awards, so

look out or urther announcements in

uture issues o Copper Forum and the

copper industry websites below. More

images and inormation about all the

short-listed projects can be ound in is-

sue 23/2007 o Copper Forum or at:

www.cda.org.uk/arch but many o the

other buildings submitted will also be

o interest to architects, so all the Award

entries rom around Europe are eatured

at www.copperconcept.org.

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Designed by Wandel Hoeer Lorch Ar-chitekten, the primary concept or the

Jewish Centre was its natural integra-

tion with the city structure by utilising

public space. Tis skilul integration sig-

nals a renaissance o public Jewish lie in

Munich. Te Centres public nature and

openness is experienced in a succession o

squares, paths and passageways between

the buildings and their neighbourhood.

A CONSIDERED USE OF MATERIALSTree interrelated buildings the Com-

munity Centre, the main synagogue and

the Jewish Museum o the City o Mu-

nich - orm a balanced ensemble while

clearly retaining their own autonomy.

Each building is dierentiated through

individual use o materials while set-

ting up relationships between them. For

example, travertine is used in dierent

shapes and orms: rusticated natural

stone orms the rugged base o the syna-gogue, contrasting with polished stone

used or the museum and the cut slabs

which refect light and shadow onto the

acades and around the patios o the Com-

munity Centre.

ARCHitECtuRE ANd SyMBoLiSMThis building study takes a closer look at the design o the new Jewish Centre inMunich, Germany winner o the 2007 European Copper in Architecture Awards.

Mnchs new Jewsh Cenre nes a we range acles, scaere hrgh he c rng he s-war

period, in a single, central location. It was inaugurated on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristal Nacht the night of

he brken glass when Na hgs mve hrgh German ces brnng snagges an aackng Jewsh ele

an her reres. A s hear s a snagge whse esgn s rch wh smblc meanng an whch s sr-

mne b a nqe ranslcen wven brne mesh vele lanern.

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DEFINING THE SYNAGOGUE

Named Ohel Jakob, or Jacobs ent, ater

the original synagogue destroyed in 1938,

the new synagogue is oriented towards the

east and stands unattached within the pub-lic space. One o the main challenges ac-

ing the architects was to derive a typology

or the built orm o synagogues, as archi-

tect Andrea Wandel explains: Te absence

o a dened tradition or this particular

building type at rst meant that there were

ew coherent guidelines that might infu-

ence our design. Nevertheless, we used as

a starting point two elements that could be

described as the core experiences o Juda-

ism: the temple and the tent o epiphany.

In the 1920s, the Viennese art historian

Max Eisler during an architectural com-

petition or a synagogue mentioned the

tent as an appropriate building orm. Sub-

sequently, Salomon Korn highlighted the

contrasting pair temple and tent. Te

rst Lord`s house o the Jews was an in-

terim solution: the tent o epiphany. Tis

ormed an ephemeral cover or the portable

ark o the covenant, ready or dismantling

and moving at any time. In contrast to this

portable sanctum the second Jewish church

was a massive structure: the temple o Solo-

mon. With links to Mount Zion and sup-

ported by an immense substructure, the

temple clearly represented permanence and

durability.

DEVELOPING A BUILDING TYPOLOGY

We could see that, in general, syna-

gogues exhibit elements o both the

temple and the tent o epiphany, in each

case with more o an accent on one or

the other. So, the architectural concept

o the synagogue is typied by an inter-

play o permanent and transitory states.

In our design, the massive stone base

represents the permanence o the temple,

contrasting with the woven bronze veil

which suggests the ragility o the tent.

Tis concept translates into a deceptively

simple composition o two contrasting,

stacked cuboids: an almost impenetrable

eight metre high rough stone base with ataller ligree glass and steel construction

rising orm its centre, cloaked in a woven

bronze translucent veil. During the day,

the bronze veiled lantern brings light into

the interior and in the dark it shines.

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TRANSPARENCY AND PATTERN

Te lantern is built with three overlap-

ping layers o materials that fow into

each other like abric but, at the same

time, appear to separate, drawing the eyeupwards. Steel triangles orm the sup-

porting structure, with glass at the cen-

tre and the fowing bronze mesh outside.

Te interaction o the spirals o bronze

mesh - widened to create the optical im-

pression o an equilateral triangle - with

the similarly triangular construction o

the glass aade behind the mesh, gener-

ates patterns clearly suggesting the Star

o David symbol but without directly

replicating it. Te realisation o this con-cept demanded a special solution or the

mesh and the lantern construction.

MAKING CONCEPTS A REALITY

Te bronze wire mesh was developed

by metal weave experts GKD Gebr.

Kuerath AG. Usually, a mesh covering

o this scale would require a substrate

or support and to accommodate wind

loadings. But to avoid such a substrate

and enable the required transparency,the aade mesh is suspended rom the

top, xed to the steel substructure us-

ing inserted bronze fat proles, then

in the middle screwed to a bronze pipe

construction and at the bottom stretched

tight to the substructure with springs.

Extensive technical trials were required

to gain approval rom the local building

authorities or this innovative and fex-

ible solution. Te decision to use bronze

was infuenced not only by the aes-

thetic qualities o the material but also

by its perormance advantages. As time

passes, the bronze will oxidise and lend

the building a unique patina o its own.

And, o course, the long service-lie, non-

fammability, minimal maintenance and

recyclability o the woven bronze mesh

make it a singularly attractive solution.

Te roo and aades o the glass lantern

are clad in a total o 1,300 m2 o bronze

mesh.

Te selection o materials has particular

symbolic signicance with the rough

stone base and translucent bronze mesh

characterising opposites o the synagogue

stability and ragility. erra rma and

transcendence or darkness and light are

in balance. And this architectural in-

tensity continues with the interior. Al-

though considerably smaller than many

churches and other places o worship,

the synagogues deceptively simple de-

sign, utilising Lebanese cedar paneling,

generates an impressive space. Te veil

o bronze mesh around the glass lantern

disperses the sunlight alling onto it and

bathes the interior in a warm light. Tis

sensitive interplay o light, transparency

and shadow gives the space a unique at-

mosphere.

Looking up into the translucent bronze

mesh tent roo intensies the experience

o transience.

Jewish Centre in Munich, Germany winner o the 2007 European Copper in Architecture Award

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Te Aggtelek Visiting

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A slen new vsrs cenre

enhances he exerence en-

erang sberranean sace n

a ramac cave.

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eh he ee, mc, e ce h

wel cve.th he he l ce he ce gve

he lce emkble chce.

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me cee l he bwel mhe

eh, elg ll m.

the ble ck wee ke he lmee

cve, evelly ce he blg

be. th lcl e becme he jec m

mel.

the cey w cmlee by he be cee

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cveg.

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ce he eh ce.

the g f he m ce wh 4 e

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m he 1000 qm ve y c ge cce he

ch ek, he b, he g h he lve

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he ceke.

By achec Cb Jkbph: Zl Ck

Centre

Comissioner: Directorate of Aggtelek National Park

Designers: Architect: Csaba Jakab (HT-F Bt. 2120 Dunakeszi, Brassi u. 5.)

Address: 1085 Budapest, Hornszky u .25., Phone.: 06-1-338-00-92, E-mail: jcs@c

Designing: 1997-2003 Construction: 2004-2005

General Contractor: Adeptus Rt., 3525 Miskolc, Szepessy Pl u. 3-5

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ENViRoNMENtAL

dEVELopMENtSiN tHE uK

r man ears, archecs n he uK have shw

a arclar neres n ssanabl, seekng

blng maerals wh g envrnmenal cre

als, sch as cer. B he Brsh gvernmen

nw rmalng ssanable blng racce, achec Chrs Hsn exlans wh cmmens

he esgners sme he shr-lse rjec

rm he uK Cer n Archecre Awars n

envrnmenal asecs her blngs.

Te last twelve months has seen the im-

plementation o a new Code or Sus-

tainable Homes in the UK. Although

initially voluntary, it will become a rm

regulation soon and likely to be ollowed

up by similar measures or buildings

other than homes. Te Code covers vari-

ous issues including energy use and CO2

emissions, pollution, water use, waste

and surace water run-o (discussed

later), as well as building materials. o

assess building materials, the Code

will use a Lie Cycle Assessment (LCA)

method developed and implemented by

the Building Research Establishment

(BRE), called Te Green Guide. Tis

Guide will rate roo, wall, foor and other

complete constructions not just the

individual materials probably rom A

(very good) to G (poor). It is intended

that these straightorward ratings will

provide architects with helpul, easy to

use guidance based on up-to-date data.

CoppER iNduStRy iNitiAtiVE

Te copper industry has been in dis-

cussion with BRE rom the start and is

seeking to replace the out-o-date inor-

mation on the material currently being

used by them. Recognising that LCA is

an important scientic tool or assessing

the environmental impacts o materials,

some years ago the European Copper

Institute set up a European Compe-

tence Lie Cycle Centre to study this or

the metal. Ater 3-years work, the most

accurate copper lie cycle data is now

available rom this most authoritative o

sources via a dedicated website www.cop-

per-lie-cycle.org. For metals, a typical

cradle to grave study covers the mining

and extraction o raw materials, abrica-

tion, transportation, use and recycling or

disposal - including energy and all other

material supplies required. Discussions

with BRE revealed that they have been

using much older data that ails to re-

fect major environmental improvements

made by the copper industry over recent

decades, amongst other actors. Tese

improvements are clearly demonstrated

in the graph.

dEMoNStRAtiNG SuStAiNABiLity

Pressures to use sustainable materials re-

quire robust assessment methods. In the

absence o denitive Green Guide ratings

or other up-to-date guidance rom BRE,

the latest LCA inormation or copper

cladding, roong and other applications

can be ound at www.copper-lie-cy-

cle.org. Another useul environmental

measure o a material, Embodied Ener-

gy is the total energy consumed during

every phase o each lie cycle rom cradle

to grave. Te latest comparisons or typi-

cal roong and cladding metals (taken

rom a recent, German study), consid-

ered over whole o lie provide helpul

guidance. Tis study is based on materi-

al thicknesses typical or ully supported

roong techniques: 0.6mm or copper;

0.4mm or stainless steel and 0.7mm

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or aluminium - but the same principles

hold or thicker cladding materials. Lie

spans o 200 years or more or copper

are justied by experience, while both

aluminium and stainless steel industries

claim 100 years each. Tis independent

study clearly shows that copper oersthe lowest embodied energy o the three

metals (103 MJ/m2 compared with 157

MJ/m2 or stainless steel and 115 MJ/m2

or aluminium) as well as the lowest CO2

equivalent emissions.

MAtERiAL iMpLiCAtioNS

Even without detailed scientic sup-

port, many architects eel instinctively

that copper is a sustainable architectural

material. It has, o course, been usedsince the dawn o man in numerous ap-

plications and as a building covering or

centuries: a 13th century copper roo re-

mains intact today on a German church.

It has been estimated that only 12% o

known copper reserves have been mined

throughout history and the recycling o

copper is a well-established practice. Tis

is due to the relative ease - compared with

other metals o re-using both process-

ing waste and salvaged scrap rom even-

tual demolition, as well as the incentive

o coppers value. oday, copper scrap is

re-used ad innitum and more than 55%

o copper used in architecture comes

rom recycled sources. And, o course,

as a natural element within the earths

crust, incorporated into living organisms

throughout the evolutionary process,

copper is an essential nutrient required

by all higher lie orms.

SAE to SpECiy

Sometimes concern is expressed about

the possible eects o copper in rain-

water run-o rom roos and cladding,

oten uelled by out-dated laboratory

experiments involving conditions never

encountered in the eld. As a result,

signicant scientic research has been

carried out to understand the complex

processes actually taking place. Tis has

demonstrated that the use o copper in

external building applications is not

harmul to the environment. Trough

natural processes o binding to organic

matter, adsorption to particles and pre-

cipitation, the copper run-o nally

comes to rest in a mineral state as part o

the earths natural background o copper

material, continuing the natural extrac-

tion/mineralization cycle.

In any event, copper in run-o comes

to rest very early in current drainage re-

gimes. In the UK, the issue o rainwa-

ter run-o and recent fooding aroundthe country are being addressed with

new planning regulations demanding

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS).

Te techniques used in SUDS include

permeable (or pervious) paving, soaka-

ways (or inverted wells) and swales (or

wadis). Te most denitive guidance on

SUDS design shows that all these tech-

niques arrest the major part o copper

material in runo: or example, perme-

able paving detains 60-95% within itsconstruction. I released to the soil, the

remaining available copper is taken up

by organic matter in soil or at sewage

treatment plants, or by other chemicals.

Tis orms compounds with minimal,

i any, amounts ultimately joining the

natural background presence o copper

in aquatic environments. In any event,

copper does not bio-accumulate and, o

course, no harmul eects have occurred

with the extensive use o copper plumb-

ing in homes throughout the world.

Detailed, authoritative supporting in-

ormation is available via the European

Copper in Architecture Campaign or

anyone encountering misplaced concerns

sometimes encountered rom planners or

other regulators.

Te Cllect, Lcl (Aa st-lte

Pate hpt Actect

Inge Laursen says: This museum build

was conceived as a ragment o the existmedieval city, made rom limestone quarr

less than 20 miles away. Openings in the st

are cut rom blades o bronze, which ra

windows and entrances. The material is carr

through the whole building to orm canop

doors, vents, gutters and ironmongery. T

clients brie required that the building sta

or at least 125 years and this was instrumen

in the selection o durable materials.

The historic resonance o bronze, a cop

alloy used as ar back as the 4th millenni

BC, was tting or our desire to create

timeless building. Bronze has a high mateeciency due to its robustness and dens

and its recycling quota is reported to be alm

80%, saving up to 92% o the energy requi

to extract the metal rom ore. Minimising

consumption o energy and resources where

possible, coupled with the longevity o

construction, were important sustainable go

or us as a practice.

Cmmens rm he

esgners sme

he shr-lse rj-

ecs rm he uK Cer n Archecre

Awar n he env-

rnmenal asecs

her blngs.

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Te rla Leky Blg, uety f

Plymt (Aa st-lte). Actect:

heg Lae Tegete t BdP.

John Palmer o BDP, Bristol, says: Copper

was chosen or the roo and wall cladding

primarily because o its associations with

quality and with an historic copper roo in thelocality which had clearly stood the test o time

in this harsh marine environment. We also

looked at the benets that could be obtained

rom the possible high-recycled content,

long lie o the material and its detailing, low

maintenance requirements and the eventual

recyclability o the material.

The copper was used as a weathering to a

composite insulated panel substrate which,

overall, provided a highly insulated envelope

with low air leakage rate, reducing energy

use. Investigation on rainwater harvesting

or the fushing o toilets revealed that thecopper would probably provide the benet

o inhibiting bacterial or algal growth in

the water. These aspects all made positive

contributions to the Universitys sustainability

aspirations and requirement or a BREEAM

Very Good rating.

smmg Pl, Fmby (Aa

Cmmee). Fele Clegg Baley

Actect.

Architect Andy Couling says: The clients

brie was or a sustainable, beautiully

crated building or the whole community.

Sustainability was a key driver or bothclient and architect. Environmental issues,

our previous experience o pool buildings

and a love o natural materials led us to the

principle o a timber ramed building clad

in materials which will weather graceully

over many years without the need or regular

maintenance, notably copper. The building

takes the orm o two linked volumes.

The dominant orm clad in oak and rooed

in copper sits next to a lower, longer copper

box. The roo structure gradually changes

towards the high street and creates a double

curvature roo visible rom several angles.

We needed a material which could cope with

the complex geometry and would enhance

the appearance o the building. Copper was

an obvious choice because o its longevity,

sustainability credentials and beauty. One

o the principle attractions o copper in this

instance was that it will continue to change

over the years, developing its own unique

patina in the salty coastal air.

Te uc Teate, L (Aa

we). Ket wllam Actect.

Keith Williams says: Compositionally, the

new building is an asymmetric pavilion. The

main Weston Theatre sits some 7 metres

above the main oyer and the Clore Theatre

which have been inserted beneath. TheWeston is the cultural and creative heart

o the Unicorn and has been treated like a

special casket, enwrapped in a random length

strip rain screen system using pre-oxidised

copper o three dierent standard widths.

The random strips create a laminar, striated,

and massive quality to the main aade, which

sits in deliberate contrast to the curved

amphitheatre orm o the auditorium nestling

at its heart, heightening the audience surprise

on ascending to their seats.

The strip copper is carried into the interior

o the building to celebrate the presence

o the main theatre hovering overhead the

oyer, and to ensure that it is legibly ever

present. The larger architectural gestures o

projecting copper clad main auditorium and

the iconic corner tower with its eroded base,

signal the new building at an urban level,

yet the designs are also rich in small scale

detail. Copper was chosen or its longevity, its

architectural appearance, and its high degree

o sustainability in that it is almost endlessly

recyclable.

Project architect Andrew Dean says: The

geometry o the planetarium refects key

astronomical concepts. Above ground it ismaniested as a tilted bronze cone aligned

with the north star at 51.5 degrees. The cone

was preabricated in sections then welded

together on site and welds grounded down

to give a seamless surace. The bronze was

specially treated to build up a surace o rich

reds and browns nished with green splashes

resonant o nebulae seen in space.

While bronze was chosen largely or its

unique visual characteristics which have

such an impact on this project, the positive

ageing process o patination and its indeniteliespan are also important to buildings o this

type. It is also reassuring to know that the

material is 100% recyclable at the eventual

end o the buildings lie. Finally, as all the

rainwater runo rom the building is disposed

o on-site via soakaways in the adjacent park,

external materials needed to be suitable or

sustainable drainage systems.

Pete ha Plaetam, ryal obeaty, Geec (Aa Cmmee)

Alle a M Actect

Cmmens rm he esgners sme he shr-lse rjecs rm he uK

Cer n Archecre Awar n he envrnmenal asecs her blngs.

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St Marys Churchat Teydon BoisWhen he rgnal sre hs cresqe vllage chrch n

then Bs n Essex ha be relace was essenal ha

he rgnal naral green ana an he eale wrkmansh

be ke.

pal Rawlnsn drecr ll Meal Jackecmmene:

Te spires existing copper cladding had ailed due to over-fxing o the panels,

which restricted thermal movement. Te

copper sheet had cracked at the junctions.

Our coppersmith Chris Johnson, director

o Full Metal Jacket, Paul Rawlinson, and

surveyor Ronald Wylde re-designed the new

copper sheet detailing allowing thermal

movement to take place without changing

the appearance o the fnished panels.

We introduced a double herringbone stand-

ing seam detail to the base o the spire. Te

8no dormer vents were traditionally fn-ished with the mid-section being installed

in a modern long strip system. Te fnial,

cross and ball were traditionally ormed

with welted joints and the weather vane

was existing and was repaired. Te copper

sheet supplied by Luvata with its pre-pati-

nated surace was ideal to orm and ft all

details o the spire.

he original spire ailed, albeit a-

ter 80 years, due to over-xing o

the traditional panels in the most

vertical sections o the spire, the resulting

cracking being due to the lack o any al-

lowance or thermal movement. A team

including the architect, Ronald Wylde,

the director o the roong contractor

(Full Metal Jacket) Paul Rawlinson and

their most experienced coppersmith; re-

designed the spire so that the mid sec-

tion now includes a more modern long

strip system while keeping the original

appearance o the spire and with proper

allowance or thermal movement. Te

long strip section includes eight highly

detailed dormer style vents. Te lower

section has a double herringbone design.

Every aspect o this spire displays the

high standard o workmanship and care-

ul attention to detail. Particularly the in-

tricate workmanship o the vents and the

herringbone standing seams at the base.

Tese images clearly show the quality and

consistency o the workmanship and the

lack o damage to the patina at the points

o most demanding detail.

prjec: s My Chch Egl they B, Ee a 200 mnc Gee pl e-e ce

Architect /Surveyor:rl Wyle, rl Wyle ace

Rng Cnracr: ll Mel Jcke

Rnal Wle, Rnal Wle Asscaes:

St Marys Church at Teydon Bois in Es-

sex with its distinctive spire is a very popularlocal landmark. When a decision was taken

to replace the copper coverings to the spire,

the client stipulated that the characteristic

green colour was to be maintained.

Te pre-patinated copper supplied by Lu-

vata and ftted by Full Metal Jacket Ltd o

Loughton, Essex was able to meet this re-

quirement precisely and the fnished results

are aesthetically pleasing and have been

well received by the church and local com-

munity.

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pALANGA:

in Search an ien wh Cer

te: Key dmek

A resort town on the Baltic Sea coast in

Lithuania, Palanga, is now going through

the drastic changes under the swirl o

the new market economy. Te town was

ormed as a typical resort o the XIX

century peaceul and romantic place

with beautiul English-style park, Te

yszkiewicz palace, Neo-Gothic church

and tiny wooden houses buried in ver-

dure. Considered to be an object o col-

lective desire, a dierent resort with a

sweet taste o prohibited reedom by thecitizens o USSR, Palanga, thanks to the

local architects, managed not to loose its

harmonic coexistence with nature during

the Soviet times.

Te new, mostly brutalist structures

which appeared at that time, at least in the

center o the city, tended to hide between

the trees retaining the orestlike impres-

sion o the town. Even a comparatively

massive structure rom the 60s, a sum-

mer theatre with its huge double-wingedconcrete roo still seems to be unnotice-

able in the summer disappearing almost

entirely in the pines. oday, however, the

delicate balance between the city and

surrounding landscape is gradually ad-

ing away. Palanga is turning out to be a

coastal resort o a mass tourism era whose

population swells up in several t imes dur-

ing the season. Te urban topography is

changing not only because o the rising

amount o tourists and, consequently, thegrowing demand or the new construc-

tion, but also due to the changes in leisure

patterns: people who increasingly tend to

come to resort only or ew days aim to

buy or rent private apartments in contrast

to the collective and long-term type o

rest in the bygone soviet sanatoriums.

ArchitectDonatas Rakauskas

Building year 2007

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Te recently built copper house in the

center o Palanga designed by Lithuanian

architect Donatas Rakauskas could beseen as a new type o architecture which

keeps strong ties with intelligent local

traditions o dealing with nature and at

the same time satises the new dynam-

ics o the contemporary coastal liestyle.

Te project beginning was a typical ex-

ample o the current trends o privatiza-

tion: our owners o the smallish adjacentland pieces wanted to build our dierent

private houses. Te architect managed to

persuade them to build only two build-

ings and at the same time meet all the

individual needs. In the result, the shared

reality appeared to be two almost iden-

tical three-foor houses while inside eve-

rybody got whatever he wanted: spacious

apartment or big amily; small cozy fats

or renting; bachelors suite with separate

rooms or riends.

Te buildings, which dier in area (ap-

proximately 600 and 800 m2) but have

the same volume conguration and scale, were mirrored and turned towards each

other so that the master plan allowed

to save maximum amount o the exist-

ing trees. Teir perception could remind

a kind o exciting game in recognizing

twins i not the dierence in aade ma-

terials. Both houses were aimed to imitate

the oliage o larch but using dierentmeans bro-cement and copper. o re-

alize the copper aade Luvata (the com-

pany-producer) developed non-standard

strips o 6 green patina tones in 4 dier-

ent widths rom which the architect chose

12 combinations used or the production.

Te panels identical to Luvatas standard

model FPAN 402, due to the variable tol-

erances o the building, were produced

at the site by a local tinsmith. Installed

to the aade in irregular order, the cop-

per panels generate a special graphic code

very close to the color and tactile charac-

teristics o the local nature.It seems to be not a mere coincidence

that exactly the copper house stands on

the corner o Kestucio and Birutes alley,

named ater the heroes o the legendary

love story rom the XIV century about

priestess Birute and the Grand Duke o

Lithuania Kestutis.

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Mindaugas Apartements- a Contrast to the Old Town architecture in Vilnius, Lithuania

Sometimes faade is referred to as a face of a building able to tell an entire biography

he hse. nal aae nsh s alwas ame a w rses: recn he

blng agans negave se mac an als rvng a ceran lxr aea-

rance. Wh venlae aae ssems geng mre an mre lar, archecs an

cnsrcrs recenl en al mern slns sas bh he aremenne

reqremens. As s rne , he n have g ar: maerals knwn r

ages, cer, r examle, cl als rve sabl an slness a aae.

In Lithuania, so ar, we have a ew build-

ings containing copper acades. One o

the recent samples is Karalius Mindau-

gas center o commercial premises and

apartments erected at the very center o

Vilnius, in the place o ormer Zalgiris

swimming pool. According to Architect

K. Pempe, the Design Project Manager,in selection o aade nish or this ve-

storey building, cultural heritage protec-

tion experts recommended the use o the

highest quality materials, contrasting to

the building nish on the other side o

the river Neris, at the heart o the Old

own. Ater a long period o search and

even a ew trips to Finland, designers re-

used initially chosen stone and settled

on copper straps well-matching to the

respa panels, aluminum louvers and

glass structures (see Article Facing the

Royal Palace o Lithuania). It is interesting

how architects have managed to persuade

their customer, whose business is relatedto natural stone working, in correctness

o such a solution! Teir arguments have

been simple, but logical: only copper

straps can ully convey the entire plastic

solution o the building volume (also its

rounded corners) and, besides, the sol-

id-looking though light patina-covered

planes can retain their color and original

structure without demanding any special

care.

As soon as the solution was passed, its

implementation works began. 0.8 mm

thick copper sheets produced by Finnish

company Luvata were carried to Lithua-nia in rolls and bent into 2-3.5 m length

and 28 cm width proled panels accord-

ing to the designers supplied data. Exte-

rior planes or walls and foor-separating

straps were shaped out o such panels.

On the construction site, they were as-

tened to aluminum guides mounted on

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Kl Mg me blg mke c he ol tw chece.

Wll le me cehee f eg Ce mche he teel mel-gl ce.

the wall heat protection layers. Copper

was oxidized straight at the actory and

covered with special mix by its compo-

sition corresponding to natural, 30 year-

old patina. Tereore assembled walls did

not require priming or painting. Accord-

ing to experts o Elias ir Partneriai rep-

resenting Luvata in Lithuania, the aade

will change its appearance neither in 15

years, when the manuacturers coating is

replaced by natural copper oxides, nor ina hal o century. Tanks to a noble look

o its copper coating, Karalius Mindau-

gas center has obtained the sort o co-

sines common to the Old own spirit,

and probably claims to become one o the

rst architectural monuments o the 21st

century in the capital.

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When tarla MacGabhann MacGab-

han archecs was resene wh he

cmmssn ble he se hs

1920s bl ne-Gergna cage n

Wes Ma, irelan r a ng grwng

aml hs ecsn was nhng

wh he exensn whch wl erac

rm s re classc lnes, b raher smehng wars he se,

rce sme rganc rm whch

cl n be seen as an aem c

he rgnal rm.

Te extension needed some orm o fexible

wrapping which would cope with its multiple

orms and acets. Tere are no right angles in

the plan o this extension that is capped with

a low-pitched roo. Te roo design is or a

straightorward long-strip standing seam, the

acade suraces have been treated with small

diamond shaped shingles the size o which

have been chosen to complement and harmo-

nize with the scale o the building.

Natural copper was chosen as the material as

it was elt important to be able to recognise

the age o the separate areas o the cottage

and to be able to watch the progressive devel-

opment o oxidation and patina refecting the

clients amily maturing.

Te roong, contractor , G G Roong handmade these small shingles on site, particular

credit should be given or the thought and

eort that has be given to the way the shin-

gles have been abricated and xed to wrap

around the many acets o the building.

Wesr Cn MaCage irelan

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