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Technical: Radial Brickwork Radialbrickwork cansignificantly enhance the appearance of a building, by adding adesign featurethat can engage withthe context, express the internal activities, or suggest streamlined glamour.Wetend to think that radial brickworkmeans using moreexpensivespecial bricks. This may be true for the glazed radialssuch as those, for example, on the featurestair towersatKillorglinAreaCentre in County Kerry,Ireland (Murray O’LaoireArchitects ), wherethe radius of 1650mm justifies their use, but it’s not alwaysthe case. At the Sixth Form College building in Worcester,byQuattro Design Architects, it was possible to use standard bricksinacurved featurethat was justwithin the minimum radius of thefour metres Ibstock would normally recommend. With their highly reflectivesurfaces, glazed bricks can be the least forgiving when set out on aradius, but even with the sun shining on them the cylindrical tower at Worcester looks veryeffective. The architect’s careful consideration of the brick modularsizing forthe window openings and piers between them has done much to enhance the appearance. Itispossible to achieveeven tighter radiiwith standard bricks and avoid an overly facetted appearance. This does however require theuse of aHeader Bond to exploitthe narrower102mm face. Herethe consideration concerns not so much the faceting of thebricks but rather getting sufficient mortar between them on the inner intrados of the radius whilst not having the joints too wideonthe extrados. The drawings for the curved brickwork of Page\Park’s Bluebell Left The Local Area Centre at Killorglin, County Kerry, wasdesigned as a landmark building that formsafocal pointona newcivicsquarewhen viewedfromthe town’s mainroad.The different functionswithin the building areexpressed externally.The public areas, library and primary circulation aremade permeable with large areas of glazing.Vertical circulation routes are pulled out of the body of the building and highlighted in an electric blue glazed brickwhich wasspecificallymade to pre-determined radii in order to achieve a monolithic finish.The Council Chamberorpublic meeting room is awedge shapedvolume clad in blue glazed brickwhichprojects above the roof line of the adjacent offices. The use of Ibstock’s glazed brickonthe curved stair towerand recessed Council Chamber is an important design element,lendingboth colourand animation to the facade addressing the square.The effect of wrapping the irregular forms in the blue glazed brickexpresses them as aseeminglyseparate element flows through the building.The sheen of the glazedbrick emphasises the sculptural irregularity of the forms. 38 •IBSTOCK <strong>DESIGN</strong> •AUTUMN 2016
Right WorcesterSixth Form College’s£2.6m science centre, by Quattro Design, provides four state-ofthe-artscience laboratories as well as study and IT spaces.The building,whichopened lastyear,helpsthe college copewith the increased demandfor students wishingtostudySTEM subjects.The scheme was supported by a£1.5m grant from the Government’sBuilding Condition Improvement Fund.The curved bayhas a radius of lessthan four metres, whichallowedthe use of standardblueglazed bricks rather than curved specials. IBSTOCK <strong>DESIGN</strong> •AUTUMN 2016 •39
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