The Foundry - Part 3/5 The site’s heritage underpins our design approach. The historic foundry was a collection of industrial brick buildings, with functional pitching roofscape, and simple yet generous fenestration to let ample natural light into the warehouses. This vast edifice is ‘unfolded’ across the site to create a hierarchy of streets, courtyards gardens at a tenemental scale. The formal roofline along Maxwell Road becoming more playful as it turns inward, referencing the slopes and sawtooths of the Etna buildings. Across the site five brick types are distributed, varied but all from a common tonal palette that unifies the development. The connecting plinth and frontages of the three main apartment blocks shall be built in four variations of red brick to aid wayfinding and contribute to the character of each building, whilst also providing an oblique reference to the variegated tones and textures found in typical Victorian industrial buildings, frequently developed in an ad-hoc fashion (see previously posted historic image of the original Etna Foundry).