Adelaide practice Studio Nine Architects has designed and brought to market a new wall cladding series, NINELINE.
Born out of a mixture of curiosity and frustration, the series came out of a sports project Studio Nine was working on. “Sports architecture is typically clad in a single, cost effective, prefinished material across a large-scale facade — one design move on mass,” said Studio Nine director Andrew Steele.
Wanting a bespoke solution for the project, Steele began designing alternatives. “We asked ourselves the question, if we had the freedom and the choice (to design a new profile), where would you go with it?”
While function typically informs form for such products, Studio Nine wanted to take a different approach. “We wanted to flip the process on its head — starting with a form and reverse engineering it from there”, said Steele.
The result was seven distinctive wall cladding profiles based on simple geometric forms: triangles, boxes and circles. Deep profiles of up to 150 mm provide deep-set articulation and visual impact from afar, particularly when applied at scale.
The profiles are:
— Pleat 100
— Batten 100
— Box 100
— Flute 100
— Flute 150
— Sawtooth 100
— Studio 100
The NINELINE series has been 18 months in the making, having undergone a rigorous research and development process. For further information, head here.