need help with building material..

[tugba01]

hi im designing a gallery along the river thames in greenwich, we are working with the site so somehow i need to relate it to the site as much as i could, along where my building will be designed is all metal sheet piling on the edge of the ground, (~im attaching the photo so u can see closely) so i have picked that element to bring it into my building an show it outside of my building and some interior aswel.. i thought of using concrete and making the pattern of the sheet piling on it.. or do u have any other suggestions that i could use?? i would be greatful its any1 gives me ideas:) thanks
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[Antisthenes]

SABS , i am a huge advocate for Strata. it just passed ICC

[SDR]

You might replicate the texture, without resorting to steel or concrete: how about a wood wall with 4x4 or 8x8 or 12x12 timbers spaced 4 or 8 or 12 inches apart along it ?

SDR

[lekizz]

Timber may be a bit 'twee' for what looks like an ex-industrial site! The idea of replicating the rhythm of the river banks may have some merit - I can see the bank opposite uses a regular rhythm of (concrete?) supports. I think your strategy needs to go through another level of thought process. Will your gallery be viewed from the river, or will it normally be seen with the river as a backdrop? If viewed as a backdrop then the construction of the river retaining wall may be unimportant.

[Antisthenes]

at the concrete trade trade show days i have seen concrete mixes that can resemble that rusted metal look, that as the skin over some SABS would be killer i imagine, as well as internal EPS walls.

[166kristina]

I love the look of all the girders you see on the southbank, especially when the weather has got to them a little and they go that beautiful deep red-brown. Perhaps encorperate these with glass sheet frontage and internal glazing with exposed brickwork (similar to inside the new St Pancras international terminal).

The company below did the St Pancras glass interiors:

Optima Systems