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Architectural Copper Review | 2005 / 2 Architectural Copper Review December 2005 Architectural Copper Review is published twice a year and has a circulation of 1,000 copies. Publisher is Outokumpu. The magazine is distributed to architects and professionals in the building construction industry in Europe. Editor: Lennart Engström tfn: +46-21-19 82 54 fax: +46-21- 19 87 04 lennart.engstrom@outokumpu.com Address: Outokumpu Copper Products, Metallverksgatan 5, 721 09 Västerås, Sweden. 2 Creativity and copper Architectural creativity with copper, as a starting-point and seen in an international perspective is the focus of this issue of Architectural Copper Review. I am happy to see that copper is among the materials that inspire architects’ creativity. We are naturally also very pleased to be able to present the topic from different viewpoints in this magazine. One of the latest initiatives is Copper in Architecture Awards, where today not only Great Britain but also most of the European countries participate with inspiring entries. This has brought variation and breadth to the projects. I feel that the winning projects, as well as other prize-winning entries, show significant and promising creativity. Our interview with great Danish architect Henning Larsen shows that creativity has nothing to do with age. Impressively, he is bursting with ideas, even though he has passed 80. It is interesting in this context that Henning Larsen, like many other great names within architecture, has a special fondness for copper. We are very happy that a great name as Henrik Larsen agreed to an interview. Incidentally, I often find that architects are pleased with the exposure their projects get in our magazine. Do you have projects you would like us to know about? Please contact me or someone else on the editorial board. We are looking forward to hearing from you! I wish you pleasant reading. Lennart Engström, Editor Editorial staff: Mogens Præstegaard Denmark tel: +45 4323 7700 mogens.prastegaard@tibnor.se Dennis Wraamann Denmark tel: +45 3956 5056 dw@danske-ideselskab.dk Jan Erik Holler Norway tel: +47 6755 4620 jan.erik.holler@outokumpu.com Håkan Svedman Sweden tel: +46-21-19 82 50 hakan.svedman@outokumpu.com Mervi Tähtinen Finland tel: +358 2626 6612 mervi.tahtinen@outokumpu.com Publisher: Lennart Engström, Outokumpu. Layout and technical production: www.danske-ideselskab.dk, tel: +45 3956 5056
South Street 70 – parking garage with copper The parking garage on South Street (Södra Vägen) in Gothenburg is situated in a row of well-known buildings such as Universeum and World Cultural Museum, right by the southern entrance of the big amusement park Liseberg. The closest neighbour is a block of flats in functionalistic style. The site was earlier occupied by an older block of flats that burned and was subsequently demolished. The parking garage was built partly into the rock as a subterranean building. The joists are leaning and you drive up in a spiral movement. The garage has four and a half levels and room for approximately 300 cars. The garage is built in concrete. Pillars, walls and banister components are pre- fabricated and the joists are cast in plastic. For the facade we were looking for a material that would give an open grid facade. Very soon, copper came to our mind. Copper is especially suitable in this context as it with time becomes greenish-brown and blends in with the Liseberg landscape. Furthermore, sev- eral buildings on Liseberg have by tradi- tion copper-green roofs, maybe a mem- ory from the World Exhibition of 1923 in Gothenburg. The facade is built as a trellis that forms a transparent wall. The wall is meant to have a ”woven-textile” look where the character of the copper is important both from the outside and from the inside. The copper strips are made from one- millimetre-thick copper sheeting and are 125mm wide. They are attached to a frame of thick stainless steel pipes. In each crossing point there is a bolt, and a washer in between to create more depth in the facade. The open area of the netting is 44 percent. The base is made in gabions, wire net- Architectural Copper Review | 2005 / 2 By Fritz Olausson, Lund & Valentin Architects ting filled with the same type of granite as the existing bedrock. Around the building there is light limestone, to visually anchor the building to the ground and to bind copper ions from rainwater to the limestone. The staff members at Lund & Valentin who have worked on the project are architects Fritz Olausson, Bo Karlberg and Görel Abrahamsson and building engineers Rolf Johannesson and Hans Solborg, Building proprietor: Gothenburg City Parking AB Architect: Lund & Valentin Architects Construction: Spännbalkskonsult Electrical work: Probeko AB Site work: Viproj AB Water/ventilation/sanitation: Bengt Dahlgren AB Contractor: Skanska Sverige AB Contractor copper facades: Hisingstads Bleck och Plåtslageri AB 3
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