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TERRE & Creations #5

TERRE & Creations #5
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TERRE & Creations #5

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Introduction
The document explores the use of terracotta in architectural projects, highlighting its versatility and aesthetic appeal. It presents twelve projects that demonstrate the material's adaptability in form, dimension, and finish, enhancing building aesthetics.
Key Projects and Features
  • Barjouville Pre-school and Coallia Housing: Known for metallic reflections and light-responsive façades.
  • MSA of Chauray: Features polychrome ceramic sunscreens for a unique visual effect.
  • Ehpad de Maubourguet: Uses MAAX hand-moulded bricks for a dynamic façade.
  • Parc Saône: Combines hotel and office spaces with vertical terracotta cladding.
  • Petits Bois-Montreuil Residences: Employs hand-moulded bricks in a zipper-like pattern.
Material Characteristics
Terracotta is praised for its materiality, roughness, and texture, offering longevity and a timeless quality. It develops a patina over time without deteriorating.
Design and Aesthetic Considerations
The projects integrate terracotta into architectural traditions while exploring its contemporary potential through innovative installation techniques.
Conclusion
Terracotta is celebrated for adding depth, identity, and soul to architectural projects, making it a preferred choice for designers.
Project Overview
The document discusses projects using traditional materials to create contemporary buildings that integrate with historical surroundings, focusing on the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the MSA building in Chauray, France.
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
  • Architects aimed for a standout building within a historic campus using traditional materials reflecting Boston's masonry history.
  • Terracotta tiles were chosen for their craft, sustainability, and durability, installed with a gradient color scheme.
MSA Building, Chauray, France
  • Led by Rocheteau-Saillard architects, featuring Autan® XL ceramic sunscreens in eight shades of blue.
  • Terreal collaborated on a mounting system for vertical installation, facilitating reduced installation time and costs.
Key Features and Innovations
  • Projects emphasize traditional materials used innovatively for modern expressions.
  • Terreal provided technical support and pre-assembly to streamline construction.
Specifications and Materials
Projects feature terracotta tiles and ceramic cladding in various colors and finishes, with specifications like Volnay® tiles and Zephir® Evolution cladding.
Design and Aesthetic Considerations
Emphasizes creative use of traditional materials in contemporary designs, with facades interacting with light for dynamic effects.
Technical and Logistical Challenges
  • Challenges included integrating windows without compromising aesthetics and developing custom profiles for visual relief.
Collaboration and Innovation
Success attributed to collaboration between architects, manufacturers, and installers, with bespoke solutions and innovation.
Conclusion
Showcases terracotta and ceramic materials' potential in modern architecture, highlighting versatility, aesthetic potential, and practical benefits.
Project Overview
Discusses projects using innovative brick designs to harmonize with environments, focusing on a private residence in Italy and an office building in Lille, France.
Project 1: Private Residence in Italy
  • Uses 21,500 hand-moulded bricks for a seamless transition from façade to roof, blending with the landscape.
Project 2: Office Building in Lille, France
  • Features 3,865m² of façade with monolithic bricks, providing thermal comfort and an airy appearance.
Conclusion
Both projects highlight brick's versatility and aesthetic potential in modern architecture, emphasizing environmental harmony and innovative design.
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TERRE & Creations #5-1

TERRE & Créations Le magazine de la terre cuite architecturale / Architecture terracotta magazine

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TERRE & Creations #5-2

    Inspiration. This is the common thread that runs through the twelve projects that we have chosen to present to you in this issue. This all constitutes evidence, if it is needed, that terracotta is an infinite playing field presented to the imagination. This chameleonic material plays with shape, dimension, finish… and even mischievously tricks the eye of the viewer: one is truly gripped by the intense metallic reflections of the Barjouville pre-school and the Coallia housing development, the façades of which shimmer with light, and completely fascinated when one discovers the MSA of Chauray...

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TERRE & Creations #5-3

ARCHI TECTURAL TERRE & CRéATION

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E H PA D de M au b o u r g u e t Lieu / Place : Maubourguet (65), France Architecte / Architect : Joseph Frassanito architecte mandataire, pl-n associés et Jean Michel Rombaldi architectes associés Maître d’ouvrage / Client : E.H.P.A.D. de Maubourguet Poseur/ Installer : Gallego S.A.S Produit / Product : Brique moulée-main MAAX / Hand moulded brik MAAX Couleur / Colour : 1.103

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matérialité graphique onfort et convivialité. Le projet de relocalisation de l’Ehpad de Maubourguet, petite ville des Hautes-Pyrénées, se distingue par l’articulation particulièrement originale de son scénario signé des architectes Joseph Frassanito, Jean-Michel Rombaldi et PLN associés qui a assuré le suivi des travaux. Le parti pris des concepteurs ? Organiser cet édifice autour d’un parc central qui enveloppe les résidents à la manière d’un cocon... Une impression de cocon protecteur renforcée par la forte présence de la brique en façade mais aussi à l’intérieur du bâtiment. Le choix de l’architecte...

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Visual Materiality omfort and conviviality. The Ehpad relocation project in Maubourguet, a small town in the Hautes-Pyrenees department, is easily distinguishable thanks to the particularly original structure of its storyboard, bearing the signatures of Joseph Frassanito, Jean-Michel Rombaldi and associated PLN documents through which the works are monitored. What is the bias of the designers? The organisation of the building around a central park that envelopes residents like a cocoon... The marked presence of brickwork in the façade and the building interior deepens this impression of a protective...

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é criture verticale | V ertical d e s i g n Parc Saône : une écriture en verticalité e projet Parc Saône associe sur un même terrain un hôtel trois étoiles et un bâtiment de bureaux. Unis par un même revêtement en bardage terre cuite, les deux édifices se différencient simplement par la teinte des quelques 7 800 bardeaux. Blancs émaillés mats pour l’hôtel, gris clair pour les bureaux, ils ont été posés sur l’ensemble des façades… à la verticale !

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Bureaux et hôtel à proximité de la Villa Créatis Hotel and offices Villa Creatis Lieu / Place : Lyon (69), France Architecte / Architect : Sud architectes Maître d’ouvrage / Client : Flying Poseur / Installer : Somiroc Raphat Produit / Product : Piterak® Slim lisse et rainuré / standard and grooved Couleur / Colour : Emaillé blanc mat et 13.Gris orage / Glaze mat white and 13. Storm grey “Grâce au système de fixation V-Clip® nous avons pu poser le bardage Piterak® Slim à la verticale, dans le respect des nouvelles réglementations sismiques et thermiques”, précise Guy Raphat, Directeur de production...

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Parc Saône: vertical design he Parc Saône project houses a three-star hotel and an office development on the same plot. Sharing the same terracotta rainscreen, the two buildings differ simply in the colour of some 7800 cladding. Mat white terracotta for the hotel, light grey for the offices, they have been installed on all façades... vertically! that bears aesthetic in mind. Basically, it’s a haute-couture building!” The result: 2500 m² of façade cladding provides a perfect finish to the twin buildings of Parc Saône. of the hotel façade, which follows that of the road. And the result is basically...

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TERRE & Creations #5-10

Des briquettes graphiques au service d’une esthétique vivante ouer sur les perspectives et les angles afin de tisser un lien entre la ville et les jardins familiaux: tel est le fil rouge de ce projet de résidences du quartier Petits Bois-Montreuil à Versailles, conçu par le cabinet Fresh Architecture. Dans une double optique de pérennité des bâtis et d’harmonie avec la nature environnante, les architectes ont choisi d’habiller les façades de terre cuite, selon une colorimétrie travaillée avec subtilité. 2 500 m2 ont ainsi été revêtus de briquettes moulées main en deux teintes, blanche rosée et...

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Résidence la porte des jardins Lieu / Place : Versailles (78), France Architecte / Architect : Fresh architectures Maître d’ouvrage / Client : Versailles Habitat Poseur / Installer : DSA Produit / Product : Brique moulée-main / Hand-moulded bricks Couleur / Colour : Brun et beige / Brown and beige TERRE & CRéA

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Visual briquettes are used to provide vibrant aesthetics laying with perspectives and angles to forge a link between the town and home gardens: such is the main thread of the residence project in the Petits Bois-Montreuil quarter of Versailles, designed by the Fresh Architecture agency. “With a dual focus of building durability and harmony with the surrounding character, the architects chose to clad the façades in terracotta, according to a colour palette worked with subtlety. 2500 m² have been clad in handmoulded briquettes in two colours: pinkwhite and dark brown. Positioned in a highly visual...

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