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External Building Envelope<br />
Shackerley’s SureClad ® System is<br />
a Winner for Racecourse Hotel<br />
Designed by KKA Architecture, the new Hilton Garden Inn at Doncaster Racecourse uses Shackerley’s SureClad ® ceramic granite<br />
ventilated façade system across all eight storeys, combining a natural cream finish with a distinctive grain, which contrasts with<br />
highly-polished black ceramic granite.<br />
“Shackerley’s SureClad ® ceramic granite<br />
system ticked the boxes on all counts, enabling<br />
specification of contrasting colours and<br />
textures and the use of large format 1198 x<br />
598mm panels in both vertical and horizontal<br />
orientation.”<br />
Buildability was also vital for the cladding<br />
contractor, Halcyon, and the company worked<br />
closely with Shackerley’s technical and<br />
production team to ensure that every prefabricated<br />
panel and custom-specified detail<br />
was precision-manufactured at Shackerley’s<br />
ISO9001 quality-certified factory in Lancashire<br />
and delivered to site, aligned to the sequencing<br />
of the façade programme.<br />
Contemporary Design<br />
The architect was keen to develop a design that<br />
is both stylish and timeless. Explains Alex<br />
Geddes from KKA Architecture: “The effect we<br />
have created on the elevation that overlooks the<br />
race course is one of a giant flat screen TV, with<br />
the darker curtain walling of the face forming<br />
the screen and a lighter outline of creamcoloured<br />
SureClad ® ceramic granite creating an<br />
impression that the glazed façade is floating<br />
within a stone frame. Polished black SureClad ®<br />
panels in the recessed areas and side elevations<br />
complete the optical illusions.”<br />
The variety of colourways and finishes available<br />
within the Shackerley SureClad ® ceramic<br />
granite range meant that the architect could<br />
meet the aesthetic requirements of the<br />
project with single source cladding<br />
system supply, creating an<br />
impression of natural<br />
stone that meets both<br />
planning<br />
requirements and<br />
client<br />
preferences.<br />
Alex continues: “The Shackerley ‘Lopar’ range<br />
of ceramic granite with its natural cream finish<br />
and subtle graining provides a fantastic<br />
alternative to natural stone, offering us the<br />
design flexibility to create strikingly different<br />
facades for the front, rear and side elevations.”<br />
While the race course elevation features a dark<br />
façade of curtain walling framed by cream<br />
ceramic granite, the road elevation frames a<br />
cream stone-like façade with the polished black<br />
ceramic granite. The columns at lower level<br />
have been replicated to create an open frontage,<br />
while a louvred effect for the window surrounds<br />
provides an impression of depth.<br />
Meanwhile, the side elevations feature a long<br />
column clad in the cream-coloured SureClad ®<br />
ceramic granite to create the frame for the race<br />
course elevation, giving the building a delicate<br />
appearance.<br />
Alex continues: “The relatively lightweight<br />
nature of the SureClad ® system and the ceramic<br />
granite material has allowed us to play with<br />
form and maintain a lightweight structure and<br />
that’s particularly visible on the side elevations.”<br />
Buildability<br />
Buildability and performance considerations<br />
were critical to the success of the design.<br />
Alex explains: “The building was designed as a<br />
thermally-efficient, lightweight structure so we<br />
needed a façade solution that would provide<br />
all the high-end finish and aesthetic<br />
appeal of natural stone with the loading<br />
and buildability benefits of a<br />
lightweight, slim-profiled system.<br />
Austin Ford from Halcyon comments:<br />
“Although this was quite a complex façade<br />
project, with extensive detailing around the<br />
windows and protruding frame, the installation<br />
was straightforward for our experienced team<br />
because the SureClad ® system goes up easily<br />
and every element was accurately prefabricated<br />
to our requirements before arriving<br />
on site.”<br />
The hotel is located close to the road network<br />
and much of the façade is the pale creamybeige<br />
colour but the impermeable nature of<br />
ceramic means that the façade will retain its<br />
high end aesthetic over time<br />
An exceptionally hard and durable material<br />
with excellent freeze-thaw resistance,<br />
Shackerley’s ceramic granite is impermeable,<br />
helping to ensure it does not degrade over<br />
time. Resistant to abrasion, algae, graffiti and<br />
UV light, ceramic granite is non-combustible to<br />
Class A1 in accordance with BS EN 13501-1.<br />
The Hilton Garden Inn at Doncaster<br />
Racecourse is the 8th Hilton-branded hotel to<br />
be specified with SureClad ® façades in the UK.<br />
www.shackerley.com<br />
34 <strong>MMC</strong><br />
Nov 2018 <strong>M10</strong>
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