About Render

Designing and realising surfaces

Annette Spiro, Pinar Gönül, Hartmut Göhler, Annette Spiro, Pinar Gönül, Hartmut Göhler

• Publisher: DETAIL
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783955536176
• eBook ISBN: 9783955536183
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Methods & Materials

This book shows that the potential of render goes far beyond current application practice and the wide range of design options plastering offers for the planning and implementation of building facades. Using photos, detailed drawings, and facade cuts on a scale of 1: 20, the publication documents 18 buildings using new and traditional plastering techniques. Featuring interviews with experts in architecture and craftsmanship, who share their insights into render from production to application. They also relate the history of rough renders and the complex interplay between render and paint. In addition, ten recipes and an illustrated glossary offer a practical guide to produce an array of renders, including lime marsh and scratch render.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Of hog hair and shell sand
• RENDERING TECHNIQUES AND SURFACES
• SINGLE-SKIN WALL CONSTRUCTION
• Introduction
• Project 1 — Lime render: Zur Weid Work and Residential Centre, Mettmenstetten
• Project 2 — Lime render: Farmhouse conversion and renovation, Kloten
• Lime render – A practical guide
• Project 3 — Scraped finish: Alteration and extension of a villa, Zurich
• Sgraffito – A traditional render technique in the Engadin
• Project 4 — Sgraffito: Commercial building and hotel Weinstrasse, Munich
• Project 5 — Washed finish: Bündner Herrschaft retirement and nursing home, Maienfeld
• Project 6 — Wormser roughcast finish: Bachmättli residential development, Hochdorf
• See – Recognise – Understand – A conversation about historical rendering techniques between Oskar Emmenegger, his son Rafael Emmenegger and Silke Langenberg
• RENDERED EXTERNAL THERMAL INSULATION
• Introduction
• Project 7 — Air lime render: Villa
• Project 8 — Pit lime smooth finish: Youth hostel extension, Zermatt
• Project 9 — Scraped finish: envia retirement and care home
• Project 10 — Embedded finish: Apartment building Grüngasse, Zurich
• Render in architecture – An interview with Andreas Hild
• Almost ten years later … – Continuation of the 2012 interview with Andreas Hild, Dionys Ottl and Matthias Haber
• Project 11 — Rendered stucco elements: Apartment building on Reichenbachstrasse, Munich
• Project 12 — Decorative trowel-thrown finish, washed finish: Werkhof, Weinfelden
• Project 13 — Textured finish: Waldorf School, Freiburg im Breisgau
• Project 14 — Striated finish: Renovation Escher and Lavater Buildings, Zurich
• The interplay of render and paint
• DOUBLE-SKIN WALL CONSTRUCTION
• Introduction
• Project 15 — Washed finish: Apartment block Bärengraben, Baden
• Project 16 — Trowel-thrown finish: School building Mattenhof, Zurich
• Project 17 — Rough finish: Klostergarten Lehel, Munich
• Rough finishes – History and techniques
• REAR-VENTILATED WALL CONSTRUCTION
• Introduction
• Project 18 — Rubbed finish: Residential development Hegianwandweg, Zurich
• DIGITAL RENDERING TECHNIQUES
• Introduction
• Robotic plaster spraying – Crafting surfaces with adaptive thin-layer printing
• Synergies between digital and analogue craft tools – Extended methods for plaster surfaces
• TEN RECIPES
• Introduction
• Recipe 1: Pit lime
• Recipe 2: Dry-slaked lime with silvergrass
• Recipe 3: Pit lime with stone dust
• Recipe 4: Pit lime with coloured pigments
• Recipe 5: Lime-cement render, trowel thrown
• Recipe 6: Wormser roughcast finish
• Recipe 7: Washed finish
• Recipe 8: Washed finish with coloured glaze
• Recipe 9: Washed finish with pigmented lime slurry
• Recipe 10: Scraped finish
• GLOSSARY
• Introduction
• APPENDIX
• Introduction
• Standards and guidelines
• Bibliography
• Image credits
• TEAM
• Editors and authors
• Sponsors
• Acknowledgements