Pavement
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about pavement
Project • By Daily Tous Les Jours • Commercial Landscape
River Lines
Anchoring the publicly accessible courtyard of a new mixed-use development called the Gaslight District, a wave-patterned pavement embedded with 62 light rings and sensors becomes a joyful exercise in musical collaboration.
doublespace photography
Set only a short distance away from the Grand River, River Lines shifts the city’s attention back to its long neglected waterfront, its design and musical score highlighting how for more than a century the river has been central to the rhythms of community life.
doublespace photography
With different instrument sections (kalimba, piano, guitar, kora, harp, violin) assigned to positions across the pavement’s surface, players connect the dots to create arpeggiated clusters of... More
Project • By bureau SLA • Offices
Werven Nieuw West Amsterdam
A new office building for the communal yards of the city of Amsterdam. A building where the city workers who maintain the parks, streets, street lighting and sidewalks, are based. We set ourselves the goal to design a building without an ‘ecological footprint’. A circular building that does not rely on finite resources of mother earth.
Jorn van Eck
Of course this is an almost impossible task. Nobody really knows how to do this to its full extend. This fact gave us space to experiment. To re-view the contemporary logic of building and to come up with an alternative in design and construction.
Jorn van Eck
Because how can we build a communal yard without using finite materials? To begin with, the building uses no energ... More
Project • By Mateo Arquitectura • Transports
The Central Axis of the new Multimodal Hub in Nice
Development is currently starting of the central axis of the new multimodal hub, which will channel all the flows of traffic meeting here, creating a new centrality of this site.The traffic flows are the new tram system, buses, bicycles and pedestrians. Different movements with different needs.The following design issues are addressed here:1. Unification of the horizontal texture that forms all the paving. All the flows that cross the place are paved with natural or artificial stone. These textures are edged with sturdy blocks of light-coloured sandstone that contain the surfaces and create small differences in levels between them for safety reasons.The resulting paving is a continuous figure of stone, bound by the lines that form the... More
Product • By ROUVIERE • Vieille Demeure range pavements
Vieille Demeure pavement
Vieille Demeure pavements collection offers several models : Bourgoise, Bastide and Magnanerie. All those models are made with concrete and have old stone aspects, as we can find in "Manoirs", Provencal or Italian old houses, churches, etc. They are native colored and special effects can be done to give an older aspect. These pavements are available in thicknesses of 2 cm (for indoor usage, available on a heating underfloor), 4 cm for outdoor usage. They also can be used as stair steps and swimming pool surrounds with thicknesses on demand from 4 to 20 cm and special shapes as L or U pieces with falling parts. More
Product • By ROUVIERE • Authentic pavement
Authentique pavement
Concrete pavement with high resistance and aspect of natural old stones. For indoor and outdoor usages. More