GALVANIZING AWARDS BROCHURE 2022

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Judges

Isabelle Priest RIBA Journal

Matthew Wells Techniker

Jack Broad Carmody Groarke

Iqbal Johal Galvanizers Association

London

Design District is a collection of 16 buildings designed by eight architects, set in the heart of Greenwich Peninsula. It offers a permanent and purpose-designed workspace – a new home for London’s creative industries. The masterplan created close proximities and courtyards with Architecture 00 contributing two buildings, C1 and D1 to the district.

The client for C1 wanted the building to be low cost, affordable and allow for a diverse mix of use. Architecture 00’s aims were to create an enabling infrastructure for various potential future activities and to increase the interaction and engagement between tenants and the public. The building also needed to be:

-  Low cost/low rent

- Good internal to external space ratio

-  Minimal material finishes

-  Durable maintenance free materials

- Sense of ownership

-  Bright, neutral workspaces

Galvanized steel was used as a self finished material within the project. The exposed galvanized steel frame that forms the basketball court a top the building makes a defining statement.

The frame and lower floors are wrapped in a stainless steel wire rope mesh - tensioned between galvanized steel elements. All the external balustrades, the external steel stair from Level 02 to 03, framing and gates within the mesh area are also galvanized an exposed steel truss supporting the cantilever deck on Level 01.

Architecture

Surrey Docks Farm is a charity located on the banks of the Thames, opposite Canary Wharf. The existing building needed extensive refurbishment which was carried out by PUP Architects.

As well as upgrading and expanding 250m2 of existing facilities, the project strategically opens up the riverside with 320m2 of new public realm, enhancing access and connectivity from the Thames Path.

Fir. Resonating with the Walter Segal building elsewhere on the farm, new structures such as the orangery, toilet block, and tower floors are built with timber left exposed, creating robust and legible spaces.

Joint Winner

PUP Architects

Surrey Docks Farm, London

Key new spaces include a teaching kitchen, meeting rooms, offices, a toilet block, multi-use River Room and a glazed ‘orangery’ opening up the building to the expansive river views. Reflecting the hybrid agricultural, educational and social function of the farm, simple robust materials are left in their natural state: galvanized steel, zinc, aluminium, concrete, pine and Douglas

Galvanizing formed a crucial part of the project’s material palette in the facades, rainwater goods and in an external staircase and balconies. It was also a central part of the projects aesthetic. The project is defined by a hybrid character merging educational, community and agricultural functions.

Special Mention: Architecture

Nissen Richards Studio Sutton Hoo, Suffolk

Sutton Hoo is an Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground, one of the most important archaeological sites in England and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Nissen Richards Studio worked with the National Trust for five years to transform the visitor experience at the site in order to reveal its incredible stories and enhance the significant archaeological landscape.

The project involved creating routes from the new entrance to the Royal Burial Ground along a carefullychoreographed journey, including new thresholds and interpretive moments created through landscaping and architectural interventions, the most major which was a 17m high, new-build viewing tower, allowing views over the burial site for the very first time.

The tower, signifying a contemplative end to the experience, is made up of a semi-permeable, charred timber clad structure, wrapped around a

galvanized steel frame. At the heart of the process was the need to minimise the disturbance to the fragile archaeological layers beneath the surface of the tower, which ultimately led to the use of a highly efficient steel structure with a minimal footprint. The charred larch skin is left unsealed to soften over time, merging with the surrounding woodland.

In contrast to its outer unassuming appearance, internally, folded galvanized steel panels form the perimeter and landing soffits to the tower’s staircase. These are used to encase the steel support framework to match the dyed concrete used elsewhere within the project and create a weathered industrial aesthetic.

Art Award

Katie Ventress Artist Blacksmiths

The Boulby Miner, Yorkshire

The bench was made to mark Boulby Mines 50 th anniversary as a working mine. The sculpture was created for future generations to enjoy, and that local miners can take their families to see a glimpse of their day underground.

The piece was designed in three sections so that it could be galvanized and bolted together to take its final shape. The sculpture was treated with a mild T-wash acid, to dull and darken the finish, and then polished in certain areas to create striking contrasts on the miner’s clothing, equipment and the other 3D, forged and fabricated items on the “communications board”, such as the emergency phone, Tanoy and light.

The final location for the sculpture will be on the North Yorkshire coast. It was therefore important to ensure that a

durable finish was achieved for the sculpture. It is anticipated that over the years, the galvanized coating will weather and change and eventually settle and become part of the landscape. In this way, the sculpture will hopefully remain so for many years to come.

Detail Award

Thomas Randall-Page

The Art Barn, Devon

The Art Barn has a simple pallet of materials, mostly natural and local, granite and untreated timber, but where lightness and slenderness is needed steel has been used and always with a galvanized finish.

The project is unusual in that a great many of the details are designed from scratch for the project. From the huge steel and glass sliding doors to the articulated shutters, and right down to the door handles everything is simply comprised from steel sections at a local agricultural fabricators.

Being a retrofit of an agricultural barn, the design had to keep the link back to farms and their utilitarian equipment and hardware, galvanizing provided that aesthetic link whilst also providing superior hard wearing and weathering longevity.

Galvanizing was used for a full set of new structural columns and column shoes to interface the existing timber

frame with the new foundations and these are exposed along the south facade. Matching these, and below the datum of the timber cladding there is a galvanized splash, which expands into a wall of galvanized steel as the ground slopes away.

Inside a series of galvanized details continue; a super-light space frame stair hooks on to the granite retaining wall, a slim balustrade rests under its own weight on a single plate steel leg, and a grillage walkway descends into stairs hung from a structural handrail.

The unusual thermal strategy of the building allowed us to have single glazing on super fine steel frames to keep the weather and wind from the unheated main volume. Inside, to keep the “Winter Studio” warm, double glazed units are held simply at each corner by galvanized brackets like the clips of a picture frame.

Highly Commended: Detail

Nick Hill Architects

Notting Hill Garden House, London

The Garden House is located in the back garden of an 1850s townhouse in Notting Hill, West London. It is sited towards the centre of a large green enclave of mature gardens under the canopy of tall trees.

It provides additional accommodation, complementary to that of the main house, comprising a flexible living/ working garden studio together with ancillary facilities — a WC, bath/ shower room and a small kitchen.

The walls are built in London stock brick inside and out with exposed timber roof beams throughout. Large window openings are sub-divided into smaller panels of a regular module with exposed galvanized steel frames and reveals.

The main studio faces the length of the garden with large glazed doors looking back to the main house and another

set of doors opening onto a private courtyard at the back, densely planted with palms and ferns.

The material palette – mineral-washed brickwork inside and out, exposed ceiling joists, galvanized steel window frames, end-grain woodblock flooring – references more traditional garden buildings while at the same time creating internal spaces with a strong material character of their own.

Exposed construction and careful detailing showcases the simple craftsmanship of its construction while avoiding additional costs of applied linings or fine finishes. Generous window openings heighten the proximity of the outside, further enhancing the relationship between the building and its garden setting.

Duplex Award

GK Engineering Crown - Goodluck Hope Building, London

Goodluck Hope is a new neighbourhood consisting of 804 homes along the River Thames in London, on the historic Leamouth peninsula. Various apartment complexes are being built here. The name Goodluck Hope has its origins in the history of this part of London. There are records of ships docking here to unload their goods in 1297. Tea, spices, indigo, silk and Persian carpets were stored here in warehouses.

All of the external steelwork for the project (90% of the visible steelwork) was hot dip galvanized and polyester powder coated. The steelwork that forms the “Crown” creates a prominent feature for the neighbourhood, and provides a dramatic viewing platform at the top of the building overlooking the O2 Arena and River Thames.

The main building was built using pre-cast concrete panels which enabled the steelwork to be erected without scaffolding making the design and fabrication critical to safe installation.

All steel members were galvanized including the metal decking and the maccalloy tension rods left as galvanized finish.

Engineering

The unique circumstances of the Crystal Palace Park Dinosaur Islands and the need for a secure crossing inspired the structural artwork of Swing Bridge. Informed by Tonkin Liu team’s decade-long immersion in biomimetic studies, the project delivers three specific innovations: swinging to access the banks, undulating geometry for structural strength, and the comb construction technique.

Tonkin Liu

Swing Bridge, London

To protect access to the Dinosaur Islands, the bridge has been designed to remain in the water and only make its connection to land when access is given for education and for maintenance. This negates the need for a large protective barrier, keeps its distance from the Dinosaurs, and requires only one central foundation.

Responding to budgetary constraints and drawing on the iconography of the bony fish, Tonkin Liu proposed the laser-cut skeletal comb structural technique. The plate is laser-cut to prongs of three different lengths. One prong remains flat to form the bridge deck, one is bent up to form the balustrade, one bent down to form a strut to the lower edge of the central beam, utilising the whole surface of the 10mm steel sheet. This minimises material cost and wastage, reduces the amount of welding by 50%, and allows for the direct expression of strength in sculptural form.

The complex steel structure was hot dip galvanized for long term corrosion protection.

Sustainability Award

Flimwell Park, a pioneering mixed use sustainable woodland development in East Sussex, has been completed after a decade of consultation, planning and construction. Formerly Flimwell Bird Park, the site is located within an AONB in the heart of East Sussex.

In many cases, the final result was a series of positive surprises of both a functional and a visual nature.

Architecture Ensemble

Flimwell Park, East Sussex

The park includes a series of eight timber two-storey work spaces built on stilts, a 900 m2 focal building and rooftop greenhouse and adjacent restaurant space. The design of the project straddled the Brexit referendum, the pandemic and the tragic Grenfell Tower fire.

The result of all of this is a mixed-use woodland-based project becoming an exposition of material choices driven by rapidly changing supply chains, material cost increases, structural and fire engineering, and visual aesthetics.

For example, the shift from solid timber galvanized steel-connected diagonal bracing to all-galvanized steel bracing resulted in far thinner structural members supporting elevated buildings dramatically improving views into and out of the adjacent woodland through the legs of the suspended small workshop buildings.

Another good example was the dramatic shift of the main access way for the small workshops - a 60m long bridge - from timber to galvanized steel created a glimmering almost ethereal band running across the main interface between the built and the woodland worlds.

Shortlisted Entries

Scotland

ataSTUDIO was commissioned to design and deliver Ardbrae - a new dwelling house on a small rocky multilevelled site, at the end of a lane, at the top of a hill. The client wanted a fun modern house that maximised space, framed views and connected into the limited garden space.

A galvanized steel frame was key to the delivery of this building to create the vast cantilever, curved bridging structure that helps to integrate the building into the complex ground level. It also reduced build time and impact on site.

Bill & Peach

The Vikings, Lincolnshire

The Vikings project was a private commission for a school in Lincolnshire whose logo is a Viking ship.

The brief was to construct a 3D sculpture to fix to a curved wall in an enclosed courtyard of the school that would in effect be safely guarded from any vandalism, enabling a much more delicate metalwork detail to the sculpture.

The construction is made from mild steel that was hot dip galvanized and then the surface was treated with metal patternation fluid. The main  structure had various copper and brass parts fitted afterwards.

Baart Harries Newall Thomas Telford School Gatehouse, Telford

The gatehouse is part of wider phase development of work on the school site. Security was a concern for the client and the ‘Gatehouse’ (Security Post) was required by the school to control the entry and exit of all vehicles and pedestrians from the school site.

To facilitate the large horizontal slot in the masonry construction in a way which was economical, the simple and cost effective solution was to have a galvanized steel plate welded to the underside of a curved galvanized structural beam fixed back to internal circular columns.

Bo Steel Ltd Future Shed, Ireland

The Future Shed has been designed to enhance animal wellbeing by incorporating larger life stock areas and bedding systems.

The project has completed its second winter season in service and all galvanized steel work are performing well.

D2 Architects

Snow Leopard Enclosure, Welsh Mountain Zoo

The new snow leopard enclosure at the Welsh Mountain Zoo delivers an enhanced thematic experience for both snow leopards and visitors alike, providing a better, more suitable habitat in which the cat can reside, explore, and interact.

It features natural mountainous topography and an artificial rock outcrop with waterfall and pool to provide enrichment to the cats and raised walkways for visitors. This also offers panoramic views of both the snow leopard enclosure and the surrounding natural beauty of north wales.

Cake Industries The Hothouse, London

The Hothouse was the landmark pavilion for London Design Festival 2020. Cake Industries were the main contractor, fabricator and detailed structural designer, and collaborated closely with the design team.

Fabricated from galvanized steel CHS sections, rolled to create the form, and ballasted to prevent the need for intrusive foundations. The galvanized sections provided a highly durable surface that enabled the elements to be protected as well as easily reused with the galvanized surface also providing a decorative finish.

Clive Moore Pwlheli Life Boat Station, North Wales

The new life boat station replaces an existing 120 year old structure, and enables the use of a new Shannon Class lifeboat.

The building is built off a concrete beam and raft foundation and supported on a galvanized steel frame. An effort was made to include as many natural materials as possible with the use of local limestone for the lower masonry walls, Siberian larch, and a natural copper roof.

Denizen Works, Cruciform Bench, Berkhamstead

The concept for the benches draws on the predominant visual motif found throughout the cemetery - the cross. This motif is composed into a three dimensional form to create two galvanized steel bases, between which spans a solid timber seat. The clean, delicate metalwork contrasts with the heft of the timber and its expressive grain to create a sculptural form in the landscape.

A galvanized finish was chosen for its durability, cost-effectiveness and aesthetic qualities. Over time, the bases will develop a natural patina in-keeping with the character of the bench and wider site.

Emma Stothard Sculpture Whitby Trail, North Yorkshire

The Whitby Sculpture Trail is a series of striking new sculptures of some of the town’s best-loved sons and daughters, created by working in partnership with Scarborough Borough Council. Each figure is made from steel wire carefully woven by hand around a steel armature.

Once completed the sculptures are hot-dip galvanized, this process fuses the wire together and strengthens the work making it an ideal finish for public art. The exposed nature of the trail meant corrosion protection was also an important element to consider.

Gundry & Ducker

Camden Town Beer Hall, London

The project brief was to make a home for Camden Brewery, a place where beer could be enjoyed, tours of the brewery culminate, merchandise purchased, and meetings held.

The approach was to connect two railway arches by constructing a new façade set forward of the arches, formed from galvanized steel and glass. The façade was concertinaed to allow oblique views and circulation into the space from the narrow mews. The bar is arranged with an open front counter. This scheme forms part of an ongoing project with the brewery.

Ian Gill Nest, Gloucestershire

To commemorate the 75th birthday of the first site, the WWT wanted a sculpture on the A38 Slimbridge roundabout, that people would see as they enter the wetlands.

The sculpture is made from over 3500kg of steel, stands 8m tall and 6m in diameter. The sculpture depicts an infinity of lily pads, with a whole range of wildfowl and birds living amongst it, creating its sanctuary.

As the hot dipped process protects steel both internally and externally, it will provide long term protection to the sculpture as well as self-repairing and is environmentally sustainable.

Haus Steel Garage, Canterbury

The Passivhaus home is finished with warm timber on the inside and cool zinc on the outside, with cantilevered galvanized steel balconies facing the street. The garage shares the industrial aesthetic of the zinc façades and requires little to no maintenance.

Galvanized steel was chosen for its appearance and durability, for both the structure and the perforated infill panels on the garage.

Jonathan Hendry Architects Holton Studios, Holton-le-Clay

Holton Studios is located in a small business park on the edge of the village of Holton le Clay. The building is the first phase, comprising 6 workspaces to let, forming the edge of what will eventually become a courtyard space for the community. The existing buildings on the adjacent site are long pitched roof buildings, constructed in brick with concrete tiled roofs and metal roller shutter doors.

Utilising a galvanized steel portal frame allowed for vaulted ceilings internally and a cantilevered external walkway roof, without any requirement for additional cross-bracing.

Kevin Killen Jaunting Car, Larne Council

The artwork was a part of the wider regeneration activity within the centre of Larne. The installation pays tribute to the jaunting cars that were used to transport tourists from Larne to the North Coast and paved the way for the tourist industry around Northern Ireland. The sculpture also recognizes the early pioneers in the tourism industry of Larne, including local Hotelier Henry McNeill.

The installation is made predominately from steel that is galvanized and painted.

The life sized Peacock sculpture was created to have the ability to be placed either indoors or outdoors. The piece was to be exhibited and sold at The Great Yorkshire Show, and in order to not be limited with the customer base by making a piece that could only be placed indoors, the sculpture was galvanized.

The body was spray-painted in metallic automotive paints to create the perfect protective base with the copper wings spaced off the galvanizing with no direct contact and added additional contrast.

KV Artist Blacksmith & Janet Fraser Stained Glass

The Great Yorkshire Peacock

Lavery

“Ceannbhrat” was created for the newly built primary school, Gaelscoil Baile Munna, prior to which the pupils were taught in a number of cramped portakabins for more than 20 years.

To create an artwork that would work aesthetically and seat up to 30 pupils, galvanized steel and Accoya wood was used. The entire steel canopy structure was made in eight sections, and the low bench frames were all fabricated using mild steel and then galvanized. The galvanized steel sheets were custom perforated with a series of images including the school-crest and motto, which were then cut to shape and secured to the galvanized canopy frame, and then powder coated.

LDN Architects Scapa Flow Museum, Hoy,

The principal purpose of the project was to conserve the category A listed Pumping Station and will enable the Museum’s original building and its objects to be properly displayed for the very first time.

The new building stands respectfully apart from the old, with the two linked by a narrow strip of glazing.  It also marks a transition point in material.  The existing building’s steelwork is painted, the new building’s steelwork and mechanical systems are fully galvanized and set against anthracite roof and wall cladding.  It is an inversion of the original building’s internal colour palate that works to dramatic effect.

Littlehampton Welding Ltd Battersea Roundabout, London

This project comprises of seven separate parts mostly weighing over one metric ton each, which were then bolted together at three locations on each piece. The structure is made up of three circular hollow sections rolled at various radii to create it’s basic shape.

Each part of the structure was split into two to aide in the galvanizing process. Post galvanizing, the items were joined back together prior to their paint application. Overall the sculpture stands 5.1m tall and is over 10m wide.

“Ceannbhrat” or Canopy, Ireland

P. Johnson & Company Dechmont Village, Scotland

The community funded project creates two sculptural pieces to be placed at either end of the village of Dechmont. After discussions with residents, an idea to design the spire of St.Mary’s and the railway tracks sculpture began to form.

On completion the metal work was hot dip galvanized. Care was taken to ensure that the galvanized layer was perfect as a finish. A mordant solution was applied to the galvanized finish, speeding up the natural oxidisation of the zinc, creating the final grey patina.

Paul Archer Design Zucci House, London

Conceived as a solid block of stone, the cladding envelopes this double height extension wrapping up and over the roof, creating a goal post arrangement. Slimline doors provide a clear link to the garden on both upper and lower levels. The vertical construction lines that run through on the rear elevation are bisected by the horizontal plane of the balcony.

The balcony is a light weight structure, supported and independently spanning between brick planters that flank the extension. The terracing of the planters from both upper and lower floors, join at garden level, at which interface the choice of galvanizing is key.

P. Johnson & Company StreetScape, Scotland

‘StreetScape’ was inspired by the many drawings of local children created depicting the historical buildings around Haddington as a part of the community development project.

The work is formed from mild steel hollow section and mild steel plates. On completion the metalwork was hot dip galvanized and a mordant solution acid etch was applied to the galvanized finish, speeding up the natural oxidisation of the zinc, creating the final grey patina. The galvanized finish has the advantage that the sculptures are also maintenance free.

Shand Building Design Ltd Benzies Produce Limited, Scotland

The clients brief was to create a facility that enabled the expansion of their vegetable processing capabilities. This would include a new potato grading facility to house specialised equipment and the ability to optimise their packaging capabilities.

Shand Design has designed a portal frame structure that incorporates all the clients requirements while delivering a optimal cost effective solution.

Rubb Buildings EasyJet Hangar, Gatwick Airport, London

The challenging design brief set by the client included the creation of a double width aircraft hangar measuring 91.5m by 60m.

The solution for the client’s requirements meant that an engineered frame supported membrane structure was designed. This included a modular structure, easy and quick to erect air side, and featured clear spans for housing the aircraft.

The final structure includes a 41m wide by 13.5m vertical lifting fabric door.

Studio MAY Tisbury Garden Office, Tisbury

Studio MAY designed and built this office as a way to test ideas and materials on a small scale. Pre-fabricated and designed using locally sourced timber, the office was then clad in galvanized sheet metal, with galvanized right angle sections on each corner to cap the edge of the steel. Each sheet was turned on a jig to, and hot dipped on the angles to create a robust detail.

Whitby Wood

C1 Design District, London

The three-storey building has been conceived by the architect with its circulation route on the outside, yielding an unobstructed and uninterrupted internal floor layout. The clever interpretation of brief constraints allowed the inclusion of a MUGA (multi-use games area) on the roof, currently fitted out as a basketball court.

Both external circulation and basketball court are ultimately enveloped by a galvanized steel frame, tightly tensioned stainless steel wire mesh, simultaneously forming the roof enclosure and the required confinement for the circulation stairs and walkways throughout the building.

West Country Blacksmiths Bittescombe Lodge, Somerset

Bittescombe Lodge and Deerpark was developed into a unique luxurious 10 bedroom countryside retreat. As part of the development, West Country Blacksmiths designed a wide ranging variety of metalwork for the project including automated gates, balconies, and railings.

Galvanizing was used for its long term protection and hard-wearing nature. It was then treated to darken the galvanized surface and then polished to help highlight the handcrafted details and textures created by the craftsmen.

West Country Blacksmiths Oak Leaf and Acorn Balustrade

The renovation of a farmhouse in Leighton Buzzard required decorative infill panels to its raised walkways.

To meet the requirements of the building regulations to create a safe balustrade without blocking the view, the use of galvanizing was chosen as it offered the longevity and maintenance free finish. The galvanized finish has had varying levels of polishing to enhance the effect the natural light has on the metalwork to help highlight the textures and details including in excess of 500 leaves and 75 acorns.

Entrant Project Photographer

District

Taran Wilkhu

Park Shootlab

Ardbare ataSTUDIO

Harries Newall

Thomas Telford School Gatehouse Bart Harries Newall

Vikings Bill & Peach Shaw

Paul Lyons

The Hothouse Ed Reeve

Moore Pwlheli Life Boat Station Clive Moore

Snow leopard Enclosure Wynne Construction Ltd, D2 Architects

Cruciform Bench Harry Sleightholme

Emma Stothard Sculpture

Luck Hope Building Crown Tomasz Musial

Camden Town Beer Hall Hufton & Crow

Ian Gill & Amy Alsop Jonathan Hendry Architects Holton Studios David Grandorge Katie Ventress Artist Blacksmith The Boulby Miner Rick Hiley, Katie Ventress

Killen The Jaunting Car Kevin Killen Katie Ventress Artist Blacksmith & Janet Fraser Stained Glass

The Great Yorkshire Peacock Katie Ventress

Lavery Ring Canopy Ben Blossom

Museum LDN Architects

Roundabout Littlehampton

Gareth Gardner

Rudall

Frances Forward

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