*백색 벽돌의 대안 제시 [ Doron Sheinmann Architect ] Ganey Tikva Center for Community Services

클래식이 주는 편안함:
오래되서 좋은 것이 아니고 좋기 때문에
오래전부터 꾸준히 사용하는 것이다.

건축가 도론이 보여주는
백색벽돌의 패턴디자인은
친환경적으로 사용되어지는
이중외피구조에 대하여
다양한 방법으로 제안하여 준다.
또한 반내외부 공간을 연출하여
공간의 버퍼존을 형성하는
멋진 방법도 보여준다.
벽돌은 우리가 생각하는 것보다
멋진 재료다.

Aerofoam! Transparent concrete! Living walls! Robot columns! Brick, in the face of never-ending newness, seems almost novel, right?

Using brick nowadays is like using Edison lightbulbs. There’s something implicitly comforting about it — a tactile familiarity (see this classic Walter Benjamin essay for a more verbose explanation) absent from our usual routine of slick touch-screens, LEDs and high-tech textiles.

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Surprisingly, the Ganey Tikva Center for Community Services (which provides social services for the citizens of the Israeli town of Ganey Tikva) is actually encasing an older structure inside of it. The 1980 original held the same program, but as Ganey Tikva expanded over the last few decades, an addition was needed.

Architect Doron Sheinmann threw on a second floor and circumvented the need for new structural members by allowing the new addition to rest on its own foundations, acting like a second skin for the older building. Writes Sheinmann, “The new part dominates, but at the same time “protects” or respects the old. Shifting arrangements of calcium silicate bricks patch the building’s main openings, aiding insulation and filtering the region’s harsh sunlight.”

Writer Noam Dvir, writing for newspaper Haaretz back in January, had the following to say about the new building:

“The new Center of Community Services in Ganey Tikva shows that a relatively small and inexpensive building can make a state of the art architectural statement. The architect Doron Sheinman planned a new face for a characterless concrete structure from the 1980s, and created a space that provides a pleasant homey feeling to employers and patients. The result reminds the Israeli architecture of the development towns of the 1950s and 60s, and makes use of silicate bricks – a distinctly ‘Israeli’ building material that is enjoying a comeback here.” “The Center’s patients prize their privacy,” explains Sheinman, “and so it was important to provide them with intimate entrances to allow those who enter to ‘disappears’ into the building.”

Silicate brick is making a comeback! You heard it here, first. (Actually, second. Whatever.)

from  architizer