Projects

Take a look at the many projects that have benefited from stainless steel.

Our portfolio includes everything from the latest trends in everyday buildings to some of the world’s most aesthetically daring designs.

Immeuble d’habitation Lyon Islands

« Lyon Islands » is a 12 sustainable building programme using novel architecture.

LyonIslands does not go unnoticed on the landscape of this new “La Confluence” district of Lyon. Unconventional architecture has delivered an original and astonishing work. The buildings are situated at the foot of the bank bringing containers onto the quayside of this river port. LyonIslands symbolises, more than any other programme, the Bouwfonds Marignan avant garde architectural philosophy, an environmental and social blend. This ambitious programme is a success on all fronts. The challenge from the outset to deliver 303 homes at the same time has also been achieved. The commercialisation, construction and actual delivery have all been completed at the same time for these buildings. The building designed by the Fuksas agency distinguishes itself through its Uginox Bright cladding, changing the pace of the Lyonnais sky. The flat joint vertical cassette panels are fixed onto frames, in turn fixed through the secondary vertical metal structure.

For the stainless steel facades, 15 different types of part, all machined in the workshop, were delivered to the site.

15000 cassettes with their eight folds each required eight months of work. The job architect at the Massimiliano Fuksas practice in Paris explains “stainless steel is ideal for providing a sensation of movements, of changes. The light reflections, the sky and the other buildings bring this façade to life, giving a vibration to the building.

Generally, stainless steel offers a wide range of surface finishes and contributes to enhancing the aesthetics of several works. Be it mat, bright, polished, etched, beadblasted, spun or coloured, not only found on facades, roves or decorative applications such as the structure of the beams.

Technical Files

Lyon, France
Massimiliano Fuksas
©Erik Saillet

Info

304/1.4301
Uginox Bright
0.6mm

Ben Wyvis Primary School

Ben Wyvis Primary is a new school with 10 classrooms, and community and sports facilities designed to replace ageing provision in the adjoining villages of Maryburgh and Conon Bridge, 12 miles north of Inverness.

The preferred approach was to provide the whole school on a single level, which has resulted in a spread out plan, and to have outward facing classrooms that open on to external patios. 

The school is laid out in a simple steading arrangement with two teaching wings off the main spine. These form an open courtyard orientated to provide maximum sun penetration and wind protection. Construction efficiency and economy was achieved in subtle ways: use of a three-metre planning grid laterally and a common cross-section to allow the use of domestic-scale timber frame construction; and by minimising the external openings to reduce labour costs. The stainless steel cladding in 304L Uginox Top will give a 60-year life; cheaper than many common alternatives. The cladding harks to the agricultural heritage of the area, while still delivering a civic presence. At the end of its life, the material can be recycled.

The design evolved following detailed stakeholder consultation with the Highland Council’s Education Culture and Sport Service as client, the school, local community and interest groups. As this was two schools coming together into one, it was important that the consultation was meaningful and the views of the stakeholders were heard. The locals knew better than the design team how the school would tie into networks on the ground and what would best suit community needs.

The layout was therefore developed so that the nursery allowed easy access, and community facilities were sited alongside dining/kitchen area and the main hall. This maximised the opportunity for community use while ensuring it was remote enough from locations where noise could be an issue.

Pupils advised the team on what they liked to do in the playground, what they would do in a learning garden, and how the school grounds should be developed in a way that would be good for the environment. Their fantastic drawings influenced the site layout and formed part of our planning submission.

The school opened as planned after the mid-term holiday (2013), with pupils marched in from the old schools by a piper. Feedback so far has been very good, though it is early. However, we have been gathering performance data from recent schools, which demonstrates that the whole-life approach to design is working, and that these buildings will cost less in the long-term, and serve better.

Technical Files

Maryburgh, Conon Bridge, United Kingdom
Highland Council Architects
©Chris Humphreys

Info

304/1.4301
Uginox Top

School System Les Bertelottes

School system Les Bartelottes, kindergarten and elementary school, gymnasium and Dojo, and staff accommodation.

To meet the increase in its population, the municipality of La Ville du Bois, in the south of Paris, decided to build in its new neighbourhood a school and a sports equipment. The agency “NOMADE architectes” has designed a functional and sustainable project.

An ecological transition

The program is complex, it is about having a school, a gymnasium and staff accommodation on the same parcel. Taking place between the suburban area of the city and the protected area of ​​the surrounding forest, it is composed of three entities which gather gracefully with the slope.

While the school building with two enclosed patios adopts various altimetry, the gymnasium on the north side of the parcel is a remarkable volume highlighted by a multitude of vertical lines. As for the Dojo, it buries in the southern part of the gymnasium while artfully opening on the landscape. Therefore, the different volumes create a subtle dialogue with the surrounding nature. 

A full-scale awareness tool

Ecology, which is within the architects concerns, is revealed in this project at its most beautiful effect by providing users a full-scale awareness tool. Whether it’s through the wooden school structure or through the finishing of the two adjacent entities, it emanates from the project a fondness for green and sustainable materials. As for the presence of shiny stainless steel (Uginox Bright) which decorates the gymnasium, it gives it a more atypical effect which, while reflecting the surrounding landscape, designs a smooth transition between nature and the city.

The two patios which are at the heart of the school provide interior brightness while fulfilling their role as natural occupation within the building. Thus, while reminding of the landscape it offers a field of experimentation and initiation for children. As for the

administrative centre, it is located at the northwest corner of the building and includes the teacher’s rooms and their service areas.

Technical Files

Ville du Bois, France
Nomade
©Patrick Müller

Info

304L/1.4307
Uginox Bright

Guillaume Tirel Boarding School

The Guillaume Tirel High School for teaching the hotel trade is located on Paris’ Boulevard Raspail in the Montparnasse district. The building is synonymous with its site, for in its way it expresses the relationship between the place and the city.

The dormitory accommodations were built a few years later on the rue Campagne Première. A transition more than a clean break between the two buildings had to be made. The link with the high school is made by a hollow volume and a cladding of creased polished steel while passing towards the street scale modulates to a more domestic vocabulary based on working with the vertical window and its sliding, brushed stainless-steel shutters.

Although the use of metal recalls the high school’s frames, the random placing of the shutters demonstrates a mathematical disorder that differentiates it from the even pattern of the school. It slides imperceptibly to another system that is, on the whole, autonomous yet dependent.

Technical Files

Paris, France
Brenac & Gonzales
©Sergio Grazia

Info

304/1.4301
Uginox Mat

CTA CODIS

This building houses the Côtes d’Armor alert processing centre.

Organised around a patio, the building allows full visibility of the internal operation and provides a central focal point for the crisis management team. A position that is both strategic and confidential.

Modular design, structural lightness and thermal control are part of a sustainable development approach.

The shiny stainless steel, Uginox Bright over 304 grade associated with clear or opal glass and white lacquered aluminium give the building a harmonious appearance.

A mirror for the immediate environment, perception of the site is enriched, combining the strength of its geometric design with the multiple visual variations of the reflected landscape depending on the hours of the day and on the seasons.

Technical Files

Saint-Brieuc, France
Robert et Sur
©Stéphane Chalmeau

Info

304/1.4301
Uginox Bright

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Our portfolio includes everything from the latest trends in everyday buildings to some of the world’s most aesthetically daring designs.

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