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Irving Convention Center
The Irving Convention Center in Las Colinas
Completed in June of 2010, the project is designed by RMJM + Hillier, of Scotland. The convention center is located in Las Colinas, a master-planned community within the city of Irving, which is itself situated halfway between sister cities Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.
The project features a Zahner-engineered and produced copper curtain-wall. The entire surface of the project is custom perforated and bumped with a pattern unique to the building. The surface integrates the ZIRA™ Process for generating the embossed and punched surface.
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The surface was installed as mill-finish copper, which means that the raw "red" copper surface will go through a long process of patination. Within weeks of installation, the project had already begun to darken in areas, and within a year, the whole building had a deep bluish brown patina. This natural process is a result of the temperature, moisture, and pollution in the air, which causes the material to at first darken, and eventually change to greens and blues many years from now.


Knowing that the pattern would overlap with itself in certain areas, the architects at RMJM Hillier experimented within the bounds of possible perforations to see how two layers of the same material would interact with each other. The result is a smart pattern not unlike the results of moire patterns.
The video below shows a detail of this effect. The perforated metal panel is reflects itself in the glass, which creating a fantastic moire pattern made visible by walking past the detail.


The Surfaces above show details of the pattern used and how the frequent overlaps throughout the project will result in clever patterning. The project was completed in early 2011.
The design is also unique in that at first glance, the material seems impossible. From a medium distance, the metal surface seems to float in space, because the circular shapes are pieced together via slight "bridges" or connecting sections of copper. The effect is that from a near distance, the copper circular sections of the perforation appear to float.
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