Architect and Builder June 2016 | Page 38

FIRST FLOOR PLAN the thickness of the brick external walls. The brickwork is bagged and painted selected stock bricks to create a textured surface to contrast with the slick glass, steel and aluminium used elsewhere. Composite timber decking is used extensively around the building terraces and to the soffits of the first floor and roof overhangs. The building, at roof level, is surrounded by a wide aluminium ‘eyelid’ feature for additional shading and to create the impression of a very straight, thin roof overhang. The articulation is created by generally setting back the ground and top floor level glazing from the building line, and accentuating the middle floors. A layered effect is created by extending the cladding to these two floors above and below the floor levels respectively, giving vertical proportions to what is otherwise a horizontally linear approach. GROUND FLOOR PLAN 36 PPS Centurion Square