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News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Fibre cement roof slates and cladding
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 December 2005
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Fibre cement roof slates and cladding from Marley Eternit were used by Countryside Properties that has won numerous awards and an Eco Homes rating.
Fibre cement roof slates and cladding from Marley Eternit were used by Countryside Properties for the redevelopment of a dilapidated hospital site in Manchester that has won numerous awards and an Eco Homes rating Marley Eternit's premium Rivendale fibre cement slates, with their textured surface and dressed edges, were specified by architects Calder Peel Partnership for the roofs of phase one of South at Didsbury Point on a main arterial route into the city while the company's grey Natura panels clad some elements of the elevations
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Countryside Properties (Northern) had identified a need to design a modern yet sympathetic regeneration scheme that encompassed a well-planned alternative to traditional suburban living.
In addition, they had very stringent environmental and sustainability principles giving rise to the need to achieve standards such as an Eco Homes rating.
Their brief to Calder Peel outlined a desire to break the convention and standardisation of the typical housebuilder's product by creating a well-considered community with high-quality internal and external spaces and a modern aesthetic derived for its identity and longevity by using a strong local understanding and a sensitive approach to design.
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Calder Peel selected construction methods that maintained Countryside Properties' requirement of achieving the Eco Homes rating, opting for timber frame and finishes such as weatherboard from sustainable forests combined with brickwork, render and cladding in natural colours such as Marley Eternit's fibre cement Natura.
The design creates a distinctive development that gives the feeling of a mixed community in the fashionable and affluent suburb and the accommodation over varying storeys on 18 of the 30 acres of the former Withington Hospital reflects this.
It ranges from one-bedroomed ground floor apartments with large open plan living spaces and double duplex apartment blocks with high-level internal and external amenity spaces, to five-bedroomed family homes with gardens.
Balconies link the internal with the external community landscaped zones and help bring people out to enjoy the surrounding space .
Didsbury is an affluent and vibrant suburb of the city and the architectural aesthetic of South takes precedent from the traditional vernacular while embracing significant influence from green parks and tree-lined streets.
Calder Peel has expanded on the urban village lifestyle by integrating the very best of the old and new in a carefully derived solution that knits sympathetically into the fabric of the immediate, diverse community.
City council planners were receptive to this philosophy and the design as a constituent part.
The development has already won several awards including a CABE Building For Life Silver Standard, National Homebuilder Design 2004, Housing Excellence 2004 and Building 2004 awards, and Manchester Evening News' Residential Property Award 2004.
Lynn Palmer of Calder Peel said Marley Eternit's fibre cement slates were specified after one of their architects read in a magazine about a project they had been used for and felt they would be suitable for South at Didsbury Point.
"They seemed to be the best available solution for the design requirements as they fitted the required aesthetic," she said.
"They formed one element in the palette of materials which give the development a coherent aesthetic throughout." James Payne, also of Calder Peel, added: "We liked the Natura aesthetic". Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
"It suited the palette of materials required to ensure the development knitted sympathetically into the existing neighbourhood while contributing well to the modern aesthetic.".
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