Benzie Building
Anon Architects
12 Higher Chatham St
Room 513
M15 6ED
MATERIALITY MATTERS
Now I have a building programme I beagn looking into the materiality of my building; what do I want to use, why do I want to use and where will it be sourced from? Hulme as an area is often defined by the use and variety of brick, so my choice to use brick began with looking at the local vanacular and thinking about how the school might be defined by its use of brick?
DECISION MAKING - WHAT?
Exisiting brick patterns and colours within Hulme.
DECISION MAKING - WHY?
Block A Noordstrook / Dick van Gameren architecten
1. I began by looking at alternative methods of brick work - what interested me about this project was its use of brick as pattern. Breaking down the traditonal elements of brick and re-arranging them as various compositional "images" which are then juxtasposed next to one another. From this I want to take this idea of patterns, colours and juxtaposing them.
Hazel Glen Family Centre / Brand Architects
2. Wanting to give my building more of an identity within Hulme, I explored the use of glazed brick to add colour to the facade of my building. Wanting to bring forth elements of anarchy in my materiality choice - the vibrant blocks of glazed brick set, side by side with traditional bricks will break up this repeated ordered pattern introducing a more choatic element.
3. Lastly I wanted more freedom to create more abstract patterns and introduce more organic shapes and lines onto the facade of my building. To achieve this I want to use ceramic tiles that would allow me to make a more organic abstract patterns juxtaposed with more rigourious shape and pattern of brick laying.
I continued this analysis moving on to how the form of brick laying could be altered to create organic/ perculiar forms.
My research lead to the work of Eladio Dieste - challenging our architectural understanding of the production of architectural form.
Church of Cristo Obrero
This church embodies Diestes expressiveness of form which is something I would like to carry through in my own design. The church includes one of Diestes design - the vertical ruled surface.
the vertical ruled surface
An adpatation of the vertical ruled surface that Dieste uses, this masonary screen acts as an accoustic baffle against traffic on the east side, additonally provides a screen to reduce glare inside the building.
sound
DECISION MAKING - WHERE?
Thinking about where the materals will be sourced in relation to my site in Hulme identifying different manufacturers - Trying to remain as environmentally consicous as possible my limiting the amount of miles that the materials travel.
