Design material selection - limestone

The characteristics of limestone sound insulation, heat insulation, moisture absorption, low thermal conductivity, excellent texture, high contact comfort make people gradually increase their love for it, limestone itself has good structural color stability, this characteristic for shaping various shapes art meets aesthetic standards and the cost is relatively low.

01.

What is limestone？

Limestone belongs to natural limestone, which is formed by the impact and fusion of rock chips, shells, corals and other marine life under the seabed hundreds of millions of years ago, and finally formed after long-term crust collision and extrusion, with gray, gray, gray, yellow, light red, brownish red and other colors. Limestone also enjoys another noble name – "Stone of Life".

Limestone is composed of a large number of shellfish small animal shell fossils billions of years ago, due to different sedimentation years, after geothermal and crustal pressure changes show different soft and hardness stone, its beauty, texture, other stones are difficult to compare.

Limestone is arguably the most storytelling stone, and it contains a large number of fossils of seabed creatures hundreds of millions of years ago. After experiencing the vicissitudes of the sea, they are forever frozen in the moment when time stops.

Modern craftsmanship allows us to split the rock formations of the years, bring them back to the sky, bring it into the design of the interior and exterior, and bring the natural depth of the artificial world of reinforced concrete. This kind of art derived from life has endured forever, and the magic of nature has forged the most authentic artistic vision.

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Types of limestone

Limestone can be roughly divided into according to color:

White limestone, gray limestone, brown limestone, beige limestone, yellow limestone

Limestone can be divided into according to the surface texture:

Matte limestone, lychee limestone, brushed limestone

03.

Properties of limestone

a. Natural environmental protection, no radiation

Any piece of natural stone is a non-radiation, green, environmentally friendly building material, limestone is a material formed after hundreds of millions of years of precipitation and crystallization, and the performance is superior.

b. Moisture absorption, heat absorption

The weak water absorption performance of limestone effectively regulates indoor humidity, and its natural high heat storage performance can absorb severe external heat and then slowly release, promoting a warm winter and cool summer environment.

c. Beautiful texture color

Limestone has a uniform texture, mild and low-key color, very textured, and has the hardness of granite, often used in building facades, is the stone used by European courts.

d. Inelastic, easy to crack

Although limestone is very hard, it is not elastic, and if the panel cracks, it means that the whole stone has to be replaced.

e. Limited area and size

Because limestone is taken naturally, the cause limits its area is generally not large, and the current construction process can not achieve two perfect splicing, so it is often limited by size in the application process.

f. Easy to fade and get dirty

Limestone is composed of calcium carbonate, and there are fine pores on the surface, which can easily be adsorbed into the stone if the surface is contaminated with water stains. And due to process reasons, the joints of the two stones cannot be perfectly spliced, and it is easy to hide dirt.

04.

Application of limestone

The office building of the Chinese Embassy in the United States

The office building of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, located in the northwest district of Washington, D.C., is the largest embassy office building project built by China abroad. This is the first time that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has commissioned an internationally renowned architect to design a building of an embassy or consulate abroad. In the design of Pei Lao, a large number of use of lime stone combined with the charm and essence of Chinese architecture, and on the basis of tradition for necessary evolution and abstraction, French lime stone application history is relatively long, extensive, the main categories are Paris sandstone, French brown sand, Louvre beige, Provence and so on.

Meishu Art Museum

Designed by the famous architect I.M. Pei, the Meishu Art Museum is located deep in the Shinraku Mountain in the south of Lake Biwa, east of Kyoto City, Japan, in the Meishu Nature Reserve, and is as beautiful as "Shangri-La" and "Peach Blossom Source".

Oxford

Togo's German-style minaret building in Oxford University, so it is also known as the "Tower City". The medieval towers are quaint, Renaissance-style buildings with a romantic atmosphere. The architecture of the university is quaint, belonging to different architectural schools in different historical eras, simple and extraordinary, and the "rock" value is the pinnacle. Isn't walking down the street like stepping back in time? This amorous architecture, this campus with flying waves, and the colorful culture accumulated over hundreds of years originate from the hundreds of millions of years of precipitation of limestone.

LV flagship store in France

The Louis Vuitton flagship store in Place Vendome is housed in two special buildings with a classic French limestone façade. Through the use of large pieces of glass, bright stone, wall craftsmanship, combined with beautiful stone parquet flooring, each floor can subtly present its own characteristics.

East façade of the Louvre

As one of the largest royal palace buildings in France, the east façade after the reconstruction of the east façade is 172 meters long and 28 meters high, and the material uses a lot of limestone, and the majestic design can create today's sense of history and noble style, becoming a representative work of European classicist architecture.

Statue of Victory background wall

The famous statue of the Goddess of Victory is now in the Louvre and is one of the three treasures of the Louvre. The background wall behind the statue of Lady Victory is made of limestone. The majestic posture of the goddess of victory is set against the backdrop of the natural noble limestone that has been precipitated by time, which further emphasizes the historical heaviness of this sculptural masterpiece.

CHANNEL Show

The Chanel Early Spring Launch was successfully held in the Light and Shadow Quarry. It was a very geometrically beautiful launch. The models emerge from the dark corridor through the star-lit "tunnel" and into the empty outdoor plaza, surrounded by towering bright limestone walls.

Domestic application cases

In the past two years, with the widespread recognition of the excellent characteristics of limestone, limestone has also begun to be active in the domestic market. It also set off a "Lyme tide" in China, capturing the favor of a number of domestic designers. The use of limestone to create a strong romantic style is not only a mood, but also a fashion.

Limestone is used in interior design and can generally be used as a background wall and wall decoration, and the effect is natural and textured.

Limestone is mostly used in large-scale public decoration projects for exterior wall decoration, and the materials with a sense of history exude a more elegant and mysterious atmosphere under the baptism of nature.