A residential client of ours on an otherwise very cool home is insisting on using stone tile for some of the siding. He likes the look of slate particularly.
The connotation of this for me is some pretty ugly slate slapped onto the surface of corporate banks.
Does anyone know of any nice projects that use stone tile, maybe with interesting details? I like the Allston Branch Library that Machado and Silvetti did.
if your client particularly likes the look of slate, check out the new addition to the UVA School af Architecture, which has an entire southern wall of slate tiles. Construction images can be found here under the "gallery" link
one more .... check out the "On Grape" townhomes by sebastian mariscal in SD. i believe it is clad in slate as well. not sure how to post an image, so i'll simply offer a link to his site:
it wasn't until about 2 years ago i learned this wasn't stone...
[img[http://www.arcspace.com/architects/williams_tsien/american_folk/Photo-2.jpg[/img]
when i was there, i blew right past the exterior since it was cold and wet.
Exterior Stone Tile?
A residential client of ours on an otherwise very cool home is insisting on using stone tile for some of the siding. He likes the look of slate particularly.
The connotation of this for me is some pretty ugly slate slapped onto the surface of corporate banks.
Does anyone know of any nice projects that use stone tile, maybe with interesting details? I like the Allston Branch Library that Machado and Silvetti did.
Others? Good sources for details?
jensen skodvin tautra monastary
if your client particularly likes the look of slate, check out the new addition to the UVA School af Architecture, which has an entire southern wall of slate tiles. Construction images can be found here under the "gallery" link
http://www.arch.virginia.edu/spotlight/constructions/
UVA reminds me of MSME's music library...
http://www.msmearch.com/academic/berkeley.html
[img]http://www.msmearch.com/academic/popup/ucb3.gif[img]
one more .... check out the "On Grape" townhomes by sebastian mariscal in SD. i believe it is clad in slate as well. not sure how to post an image, so i'll simply offer a link to his site:
http://www.sebastianmariscal.com/
oops:
this is how mdler rocks the slate...
come to think of it, I dont think that stone has ever been used successfully as a cladding...I would spec stucco and be done with it
it wasn't until about 2 years ago i learned this wasn't stone...
[img[http://www.arcspace.com/architects/williams_tsien/american_folk/Photo-2.jpg[/img]
when i was there, i blew right past the exterior since it was cold and wet.
damnit
yeah, get the client hooked on bronze...
..how about a stacked edge grain look like Zumthor?
holz
those panels are pretty cool...I got to see the foundry where they were made when I was at TWBTA
blah blah blah TWBTA blah blah blah...
how about a terracotta rainscreen system?
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