Art House

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Bringing modern art to life, Building Designer, Kylie Mitchell, translated a painting into a striking home.

The prototype for a range of environmentally sensitive houses, Art House is a bold and innovative design that combines crisp lines, geometric shapes and a daring colour palette to create an unforgettable vision of art transformed into architecture.

To transition from concept to reality, a canvas was needed. Cemintel’s versatile facade solution, ExpressWall, fit the brief perfectly as the cladding can be painted for a custom-tailored finish, allowing a high level of creative freedom. Wrapped externally around the entire home, its clean base accentuates the circles of Cemintel’s Scarborough cladding, an alternative to traditional weatherboard.

Creating an eye-catching polka dot effect, the cladding’s angular horizontal lines contrast with the soft spherical feature shape and stark use of red and black accents.

As Armidale experiences extremely hot summers and cold winter temperatures, ExpressWall provided an effective cladding solution that could achieve the design vision and maintain its finish through diverse weather conditions. The variety of cladding options allowed for a dynamic yet durable facade.

“From the moment we went to look at the house we immediately fell in love. It’s definitely the kind of home people notice – our friends and family are always commenting on how outstanding it is, and passers-by slow down to take a look. While it’s a unique building, the smart design makes it liveable too,” says homeowner Tim Harris.

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CSR Cemintel are the fibre cement and lightweight composite solution specialists. With design and innovation as our central drivers, Cemintel offers engineered systems around prefinished solutions that enhance performance and aesthetics, as well as traditional internal lining products. Our passion is to help Kiwis design right, and build better.

Cemintel fibre cement is changing the face of design and innovation in Australia. Tapping into global design trends, Cemintel brings the best the world has to offer to the Australian market – providing the latest designs fused with innovative new approaches. Cemintel is part of CSR – the brand behind the most trusted building products. Cemintel has a progressive approach to fibre cement built around a team of experts, including; technical support, engineers and building designers. For our clients, it means you’re getting the best products paired with the best experience.

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With unparalleled design flexibility, fibre cement is perhaps one of the most flexible building materials available today. Through innovation and intelligence with cement panels, Cemintel offers a range of products, systems and services that inspire, giving choice and real design flexibility to create striking points of difference.

Unparalleled Design Flexibility

Fibre cement is perhaps one of the most flexible building materials available today.

  • It can be manufactured in numerous panel sizes and thicknesses.
  • It can be cut into various shapes and patterns.
  • It can be compressed for high strength applications.
  • It can be used in acoustic systems.
  • It can be used as a superior wet area lining product.
  • It can be painted.
  • It can be tiled.
  • It can be used for fire resistance applications.

New materials influence the way buildings are defined. Cemintel is responding to the growing importance of external and internal cladding with the release of new prefinished ranges. These ranges respond to the preference for high performance, lightweight materials and the desire for buildings to enhance the environment where we live. From external façades to interior surfaces, these ranges are a reinterpretation of cladding as we know it.

It’s the future of building and it starts now.

An Idea Born From Imagination

The father of fibre cement, Ludwig Hatschek, started to imagine a new building material in 1894. He wanted a material that was lighter than brick, cheaper than slate and better than sheet metal.

In 1900, he achieved his breakthrough with a special mix of fibres, cement, pulp, air and water. The Austrian calls the world’s first industrially manufactured building material ‘Eternit’ and numerous European countries adopted the technology from 1903. Australia first introduced the technology in about 1917.