Contact your local expert
Aga Khan Centre
信息

location_on Location: London, UK

date_range Date: 2018

architecture Architect: Maki & Associates, led by Fumihiko Maki

precision_manufacturing Entrepreneur: BAM Construct UK

emoji_objects Solutions & technologies: Envelope & Fire+

Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki has completed an educational centre, with a series of roof spaces, terraces and courtyards for the Aga Khan Foundation in London. A project achieved with the use of Ductal®. Each year, the foundation organizes the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the world's most prestigious architecture prizes. 

The newly completed nine story block building hosts research and educational spaces. The Aga Khan Foundation center stands next to another major London Ductal® reference work, the Gas Holder Triplets Kings Cross, completed in 2017.

Description

fma-agaedmund_sumner-0071_0.jpg

Combining utilitarian sun-shading and stunning design inspired by the Arabic cultures from around the world, this original lattice design brings tactful cultural reference to the garden spaces on the roofs, terraces and courtyards inside the educational center. The intricate and complex panels make use of Ductal UHPC and stainless steel fibers.

The expectation of Aga Khan is that “from this new home, our education-oriented institutions will contribute powerfully to building new bridges of understanding across the gulfs of ignorance". Ductal® facilitates such cross-cultural connections by mixing inspiring cultural influences with cutting edge concrete technology in a monument designed to stand the test of time.

Optimization

fma-agaedmund_sumner-0073.jpg

相册

fma-agaedmund_sumner-0075.jpg
fma-agaedmund_sumner-0068_0-1.jpg
fma-agaedmund_sumner-0069.jpg
fma-agaedmund_sumner-0070.jpg

Discover our projects

This is a project for the extension and redevelopment of the Cepovett's head office, the French head of professional clothing, located in Gleizé, in the Rhône.

“DUMBO” (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), a historic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York has been transformed in recent decades. Today, the former industrial zone is a bustling, mixed-use area filled with galleries, shops and lofts.

Commissioned directly by venteprivée.com’s CEO Antoine Grangon for architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, the building known as Le Vérone proudly shows off a lattice façade in white Ductal®, visible along the A1 highway across from the Stade de France, on the outskirts of Paris.

The city of Sedan entrusted architect Philippe Gibert with the construction of the Torcy-Cités Community Centre. The façade was covered with perforated panels of Ductal® Envelope, allowing freedom from the limitations of natural lighting and glazing protection.

The semi-flowable nature of Ductal® Envelope facilitated the pouring of 3D panels with a fine yet nubby Lego®-style texture. Only 3 cm thick, their lightness are made for fast installation and adjusting.

The construction of the Belleville Daycare, designed by architect Bruno Rollet, proves that Ductal® is part of a reflection on green building design.

The agency of Philippon-Kalt Architectes-Urbanistes was entrusted with the renovation and expansion of a unique care facility (EHPAD), exclusively dedicated to people suffering from Alzheimer's.

Ductal® adorns the new train station in Kenitra, one of the strategic points of Morocco’s high-speed rail route between Tangiers and Kenitra, and a new symbol of economic development in the country.

Shenzhen Yue Art Gallery is a renovation project, based on the original Jinwei Brewery District in Luohu of Shenzhen, China. Originally a cans production building, the north portal of the brewery district has been redesigned by BLACKHome Architects.

Yuhang Opera House is a 70000M2 performance venue, nestled between the bustling city of Hangzhou and the calm shores of East Lake . This new building forms the heart of a new cultural node in Yuhang, a fast-growing district in the metropolis of Hangzhou.

The Canadian-American architect Franck Gehry, laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, has designed a building swathed in an array of vast glass sails (large glass surfaces) and consisting of concrete facades with geometric shapes as original as they are complex known as icebergs... Icebergs dressed in Ductal® Envelope, using a unique manufacturing process that has received an award...

The Foksal Gallery Foundation art gallery, an iconic example of 1960s architecture, has been given a radical renovation, by reducing the weight of the facade, providing thermal insulation and restoring the mineral appearance of exposed concrete.