Steel and Stones Architectural & Environmental-Friendly Applications of Maccaferri Wire Meshes

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1 Steel and Stones Architectural & Environmental-Friendly Applications of Maccaferri Wire Meshes

2 Contents Introduction Environmental aspects of steel wire mesh products Architectural and aesthetic aspects of steel wire mesh products Concluding remarks

3 Gabions and steel wire meshes products Gabions and Mattresses are steel wire mesh boxes filled with rock in use since the early 1900s. Shaped into retaining walls, foundations, and various forms, they are an ancient environmentally friendly building method still in use worldwide. Both functional and eye-catching.

4 Gabions and steel wire meshes products Steel meshes modular units are typically used to form flexible, permeable and monolithic structures such as retaining walls, river linings and erosion control structures. They are also widely used as landslide risk mitigation solution.

5 Concept of Steel Reinforced Soil Potential landslide

6 Concept of Steel Reinforced Soil

7 Concept of Steel Reinforced Soil W N T

8 Concept of Steel Reinforced Soil The intimate collaboration between the compacted soil and the reinforcing elements results in a new medium identified as reinforced soil or reinforced earth.

9 Steel meshes and Environment Double twist steel wire products have shown an extraordinary capability to accommodate the regeneration of the natural environment. Gabions and Mattresses are filled with stones, which eventually provide favourable conditions for the development of the vegetation.

10 Steel meshes and Environment Gabions and Mattresses naturally blend in with the surrounding environment.

11 Steel meshes and Environment Wire mesh products have shown their suitability to restore natural ecosystems by providing, at the same time, the engineering functions required to guarantee that designed structures perform under safe conditions s s

12 Carbon footprint of wire mesh products A recent study demonstrates how the use of Gabions and Mattresses is a valid solution to reduce the impact on climate change, having a lower carbon footprint than the one of the equivalent traditional engineering solutions such as concrete walls or riprap revetments. AT LEAST 80 % LESS EMISSIONS THAN CONCRETE

13 Steel meshes and Architecture Gabions and steel mesh products have also a rich worldwide history for their use as architectural elements. They have been selected by landscape architects and other professionals demanding a high-quality construction finishing.

14 Steel meshes and Architecture Architects of residential and urban constructions make increasing use of Gabions as a way of cladding facades.

15 Coimbra Forum Building (Portugal) Gabions are here used as landscaping walls, either retaining or part retaining / part free standing or totally free standing. Besides the aesthetic values, isolating properties and small scale natural habitat function are assets of Gabions facades.

16 Coimbra Forum (Portugal) The multi-purpose Gabion wall: A well-constructed Gabion wall can provide an intimate and reflective area offering sound proofing, privacy and beauty.

17 Hotel Chaves (Portugal) A Gabion made facade was suspended from the insulated and sealed shell as a non-loadbearing structure.

18 Hotel Chaves (Portugal) Rock filled Gabion units are popular as cladding on buildings and other structures, to provide a natural looking aesthetic feature.

19 Hotel Chaves (Portugal) Main reason for the use of Gabions in facades and cladding is of course, the aesthetics. It can truly be a piece of art. It is a fantastic way for an architect to make name for himself.

20 Other projects Private College building (France)

21 Other projects

22 Public and recreation areas projects The only limit is the imagination: The applications for landscape structures is endless and is only limited by the landscape architects creativity in the use of the mesh or Gabions.

23 Public and recreation areas projects Parc Dondaines (France)

24 Public and recreation areas projects Escota Manosque (France)

25 Other projects Gabions can be used also as non-structural lining for cut slope and soil nailing facing.

26 Other projects Earth Center Conference building (Spain)

27 The building that Grows (France) The Building that Grows is a rare encounter between architect and developer in the field of desires. The desire was for something different, material, purposeful, pleasurable, ephemeral and meaningful. The concept of living skin merging rocks, steel wire and concrete has been created with this project.

28 The building that Grows (France) The building grows. Slowly. Its skin has become a kind of mini-ecosystem. The water collects in the interstices, algae forms and then dies, mosses grow and herbs colonize the resulting compost.

29 The Building that Grows (France) The project was used in a campaign for architectural quality by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

30 Concluding remarks Gabions and steel mesh products are historically used for civil and environmental engineering purposes as retaining structures and landslides risk remedial solution Gabions and steel mesh products have an extraordinary capability for regenerating the natural environment and can easily blend in with the surroundings Rock filled Gabion units are popular as cladding on buildings and other structures, to provide a natural looking aesthetic feature Gabions and steel mesh products can be used by designers and architects as landscaping walls, either retaining or totally free standing The use of wire mesh solutions leads to reductions in terms of CO 2 emissions if compared to traditional solutions (e.g. concrete walls)

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