伦敦美国学校艺术楼/Walters & Cohen Architects

发布于：2023-06-09 22:45:11

英文名称：London America An art school

工程内容：实景照片

位置：英国伦敦

设计公司：Walters & Cohen Architects

这是由Walters & Cohen Architects设计的伦敦美国学校艺术楼，位于英国伦敦。考虑毗邻场地的受保护的半独立别墅群的体量与占地，该项目被设计成一个单独而大型的四层建筑。该项目的复杂性在于其坐落于圣约翰伍德保护区的著名路口，因此在发展方案提出之后就吸引了大量的关注。建筑师与校方、议员和对当地政客建立了合作关系，并举办了为期三天的概念设计公众展出。最终的方案饱受好评。建筑外立面的各种材料都经过了调查研究，并提交给规划师和州长决策，包括可回收玻璃、灰泥凹槽和大理石。石材以其优雅而传统的特点被认为是最合适的材料。最终的设计使用了象征永恒的好石材，呈现了真正现代的风格。

译者：筑龙网艾比

From the architect. In 2011 Walters & Cohen won an invited competition to design a new arts building for the American School in London.Taking its cue from the mass and footprint of the listed, semi-detached villas on the site adjacent, the four-storey building is designed to resemble a single large property. The complexity of the project is heightened by its location on a prominent corner plot in the St John’s Wood conservation area, where proposed developments attract a lot of attention. We liaised with the school’s distinguished board of governors, ward councillors and local politicians, and presented the concept design in a three-day public exhibition. The scheme was extremely well received.

A range of materials for the external façades were researched and presented to the planners and governors, including recycled glass, stucco flutes and marble; stone was considered the most appropriate material on account of its elegance and traditional qualities. The resulting façade is a unique piece of design that draws on the timeless quality of stone, expressed in a truly contemporary manner. Light plays on the façade, flattening and disguising the flute pattern one minute, only to boldly express it in the next. The building has both an elegant lightness and a weight and gravitas, unique and contemporary yet effortlessly taking its place as an equal among its more mature neighbours.

The new building’s sculptural quality is fitting to the work that goes on inside. The ground floor provides exhibition space, with art, sculpture, ceramics and photography studios on the other three floors. An elegant concrete frame provides long span, column-free studio space at all levels, bringing in daylight from the north and south and creating a flexible, spacious and comfortable environment in which pupils can develop their art.Product Description. Bespoke stone façade: S McConnell & Sons with Stone Cladding International LimitedThe façade of the new art building at the American School in London is a unique piece of design that draws on the timeless quality of stone, expressed in a truly contemporary manner. It is the product of close collaboration between the design team and the stonemason and thoroughly embraces what modern manufacturing techniques can offer.

The stonemason S. McConnell & Sons’ skills and computer-driven manufacturing processes allowed each stone of the façade to be cut to an individual pattern, which meant there were more possibilities to design something innovative and unique to the School. The chosen motif creates a gradual fade on the vertical flutes, from 20mm deep at the base to a flat-faced stone at the head of the building. The complex 3D-modelling expertise of the stonemason made a non-linear reduction possible, meaning that the depth of the flute remains greater for the first two thirds of the building before tapering more quickly above the head of the windows.