LOPO Terracotta Wall Tile Project – Huarun University South Campus
The exterior wall of Huarun University south campus is made of terracotta red brick. From brick manufacturers selected to red brick firing process, and from the artificial embossing selection to masonry data monitoring, each step is to use the attitude of excellent, to achieve the Huarun People’s pursuit of high quality.
In order to perfect the construction of China Huarun University, the first step in material selection is very critical in the country as a result of the protection of arable land limit clay production, so manufacturer is almost can not be found with same foreign red brick quality manufacturers. By the China Resources Land Shenzhen Design Management Department repeatedly selected dozens of red brick, and ultimately selected LOPO China as the terracotta product manufacturer, the outcry is the project actually hired the world’s top 5, the “design community Ferrari” (Foster + Partners), the international master Foster also agreed with the LOPO China on the unique “red-brick wall mechanism mechanism” skin program offered by Huarun University.
This special process of curtain wall bricks, by the automatic temperature control tunnel kiln firing with high temperature and dozens of hours, is the ideal green building materials products. Compared with the traditional clay brick, because of its ultra-high temperature for a long time of the firing process, so that the surface is soft and delicate with low water absorption, combined with manual processing, making the bricks both with the rustic texture of the rock surface, while also improve its paving .
The external red wall brick of Huarun University has only one width in the material, which has been streamlined to the extreme, but the material does not mean that the streamlining of the lack of external layering, but need to be perfect in the details.
In order to ensure the layering of the outer wall, a special treatment is carried out on the color of the brick, the color of the brick is controlled by controlling the temperature gradient of the kiln, and the temperature of the kiln is controlled by the temperature from 1200 degrees to 1300 degrees, As the temperature control standard, the kiln time control in the 42-48 hours, nearly 30 times through the model brick production, the final confirmation of the ten architects recognized the appearance of color, and then according to the ratio provided by the architect in the factory pre-row an examination.
The red brick wall surface of Huarun University pursues the natural sense of the rough material, in order to ensure the diversity of the surface pattern, and make the external walls of the overall natural affinity, we use the artificial embossing process in the machine embossed and artificial embossing process selection, Which is a seemingly effect is not obvious, but also increase the cost of the practice, but this is our perfect pursuit of the details. We believe that the artisans and materials in a hammer a dialogue, this irregular texture, but is a more natural existence.
In addition to the pursuit of red brick texture, designers also put forward the “yellowish grainy” appearance requirements in the brick seam , to this end, the project department in the field of eight different mix mortar stencil construction, the final confirmation by the architect made the requirements of gray seam and the color of gray seam. At the same time, in order to ensure that the gray joints in the process of pointing after showing a sense of grain and reduce the cracks in the process of the existence of gray sand, through the screening of 40 around the battlefield and mortar mixing before the use of fine mesh screening screen work, The weekly screen replacement, to ensure uniform sand control mortar controllable.
Through the detailed and measured data to test, seemingly rough irregular red brick contains the project department fine control principles. During the whole process of red terracotta wall tile construction, the project department from the organization of personnel, arrangement of tasks, deepen the design, technical research, confirmation model, coordination of other professional, large-scale construction and other aspects of the work in an orderly arrangement, the final results to the domestic first-class level, Data monitoring are far beyond the design standards.
The construction of Huarun University, the project team from LOPO China shows excellent management level, engineers dedicated and responsible attitude, and made the red brick color, texture and artisans to play the ultimate wisdom, made the implementation of high quality to the office.
