Cladding

The Ronald McDonald Centre is a special sport complex designed in a way that the disabled children can focus on what they can, everyone here is champion. The terrain and buildings are grandstand and sports function at the same time. Everyone here is both athlete and audience. The center of the complex is the clubhouse, which is wedged between the two oval arenas, which are sunk in the elevated terrain and surrounded by trees and grandstand stairs. The clubhouse is for parents and children to meet, to eat and drink, watch movies and play. The clubhouse offers views of all outdoor and indoor activities. A clubhouse and grandstand in one. The clubhouse, trees and grandstand stairs around the arenas provide a sense of an ever-present... More

VIVIX® exterior façade panels were installed at the new control tower for Kristiansand Airport, in Kjevik, Norway. Located in the southern part of Norway, the airport serves the Agder district with domestic and international flights. To clad the control tower, Archus Architects and Wiig og Horgmo Architects chose VIVIX panels in Storm, a deep charcoal grey. The control tower’s egg-inspired shape dictated the choice of material which needed to be curved in order to create this unique design. “VIVIX panels are the ideal solution for this project. The panels are easily machined and can be cut into a variety of shapes and sizes. The control towers are at least 30 meters above ground; the material we used for cladding had to be lig... More

Increasingly, city centres as well as suburban areas are seeing the construction of compact buildings housing multiple functions, motivated by considerations of sustainability. This makes it possible to improve the internal organisation, reduce construction costs and the environmental footprint. The building in the commune of Changé (4 km from Laval), designed by Colboc Franzen & Associés architects for the accounting group Fiteco and housing both the Fiteco headquarters and a local branch office, is a good example of this strategy. Initially, the idea was to build two distinct buildings on this site. However, city regulations allowed only for two small buildings with a big car park. So the architects convinced the client to build one big b... More