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Fibre cement cladding shows its colours
A secret fix system
Fibre cement wall cladding can add form and function to a building, this time its on a new property in Highbury, North London using a ‘secret’ fix system.
The development features over 60 square metres of Marley Eternit’s Natura Plus in Ruby and Ivory. This colour scheme was chosen to create a link with the nearby Grade II listed original Arsenal Football Club’s Highbury stadium, which has white-painted masonry walls with distinctive red window infill panels.
The specifiers recognised the low maintenance benefits of Natura Plus, compared to the painted masonry walls on the stadium – Natura Plus is a smooth and solid cladding panel that has a natural fibre cement finish. It has a pure, through-coloured core that enabled the architects to create a tough and practical rainscreen cladding solution.
The Gillespie Road property is divided over three floors and, although relatively compact with a 75 square metre internal area, the architect achieved a feeling of space and light by designing it without a fully enclosed stair. Use of space has been maximised by incorporating a half-basement, which means that the whole building is less than 4.5m high.
The construction of the building is made up of reinforced block basement walls, with concrete block walls above and joisted floors and roof. Insulation is fitted to the outside of the masonry walls, behind the fibre cement Natura Plus panels which, along with the rear ventilated cavity, forms the rainscreen cladding system. The new wall construction now achieves a U value of 1.7 W/m2K.
More information: www.marleyeternit.co.uk
One Response to “Fibre cement cladding shows its colours”
ecoadmin says:
Meredith Bowles at Mole Architects, says: “We designed the rainscreen cladding with a gap between the fibre cement panels and finished them in contrasting colours because it created a much more interesting building.”