Concrete finishes 6

These photos are taken of an apartment building designed by Jackson Clements Burrows in Fitzroy. At the Real Lecture a few weeks ago, Tim Jackson described how they came to use these concrete panels for the outside of the building. Red panels are three shades of a red wash over concrete, designed to blend with the handmade red bricks of the surrounding buildings. Green panels (and other green elements) give a kind of virtual vegetation to this inner urban site. This is an interesting building as its form came from the architects standing in the street and feeling the wind uplift between tall buildings. They decided to use that effect to circulate air in the building. The building has a deep chasm through it that circulates air and provides circulation space. (see middle photo)