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Hunter Museum of American Art

Hunter Museum of American Art

Designed by architect Randall Stout , this was Zahner's first project with the architect. Stout grew up in Tennessee, so to be chosen to design Chattanooga's new American Art Museum was particularly meaningful for the architect. The Hunter Museum sits on a bluff above the Tennessee River where the building's dynamic lines and twisting curves provide a contrast to the original museum's classic style, adjacent to Randall Stout's contemporary design. Zahner produced the geometric zinc metal surface as well as the curvilinear Angel Hair™ stainless steel rooves.

The architect's specifications originally called for a limestone exterior in additional to the stainless steel curving roof. Limestone would have cladded the vertical walls as well as many of the slanting angles throughout the building. As the project progressed, it became apparent that installing limestone was implausible in many areas due to the structural weight of the material.

At this point, the architect turned to Zahner, who was already producing the stainless steel roof. Zahner develops custom-patinas for a range of metals, achieving durable organic surfaces with rich artistic tones. The design team worked through several options, and decided to replace the limesstone with a light gauge zinc facade which would respond to the surrounding river bluff limestone. The result is a patina we aptly call, Hunter Patina, a pre-weathered zinc surface whose tonality is similar to limestone surroundings. This material was clad on both the interior and exterior envelope of the museum.

The bright curving stainless steel surfaces on the Hunter Museum use two of our signature systems, the ZEPPS™ Process and the Inverted Seam™ Roof and Cladding system. These systems combine to make a roof which curves exactly as the architect's original drawings, and whose surface is visibly seamless and completely protects the building against the elements. This surface on the bright stainless sections is Zahner's Angel Hair™ Stainless steel, also used on both the interior and exterior surfaces of the Hunter Museum.

Zahner engineered, furnished and installed three major portions of the museum addition:

  • The exterior stainless steel roofs, fascia and soffits
  • The waving interior wall cladding and machined interior hallway cladding
  • The custom zinc geometric surfaces that continue from exterior to interior

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