Adelaide practice Studio Nine Architects and steel manufacturer Revolution Roofing have teamed up to bring to market a new wall cladding series, NINELINE.
Born out of a mixture of curiosity and frustration, the series came out of a sports project Studio Nine was working on. “Sports architecture is typically clad in a single, cost effective, prefinished material across a large-scale facade — one design move on mass,” said Studio Nine director Andrew Steele.
NINELINE Sawtooth 100.
Wanting a bespoke solution for the project, Steele began designing alternatives. He approached Revolution Roofing to understand the potential for designing and manufacturing new products. “We asked ourselves the question, if we had the freedom and the choice (to design a new profile), where would you go with it?”
While function typically informs form for such products, Studio Nine wanted to take a different approach. “We wanted to flip the process on its head — starting with a form and reverse engineering it from there”, said Steele.
The result was seven distinctive wall cladding profiles based on simple geometric forms: triangles, boxes and circles. Deep profiles of up to 150 mm provide deep-set articulation and visual impact from afar, particularly when applied at scale.
NINELINE Pleat 100.
The profiles are:
— Pleat 100
— Batten 100
— Box 100
— Flute 100
— Flute 150
— Sawtooth 100
— Studio 100
The NINELINE series has been 18 months in the making, having undergone a rigorous research and development process. For further information, head here.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
