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 When your client says, ". . .Swoopy. . ." We know what he is talking about. |
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The
"Sky Church" is clad in purple color, interference coated, stainless
steel panels.The panels of the painted aluminum canopy, at right, seem
to flutter in a breeze generated by the mono-rail as it rushes by underneath.
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One
of the entry canopies clad in stainless steel with an angel hair finish.
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In order to keep track of the parts and assemblies, A. Zahner Company numbered each component with a system that would track each piece through the fabrication process. As pieces were produced, they were sorted by number. An assembly, known as a "panel," could be comprised of over 50 different parts. No two panels are the same and there are over 4,800 panels. Because these panels could go in one location only, the conventional grid orientation had to be tossed out. The Zahner Team created names for areas of the building that related to their forms. Below, the area known as "The Skirts." |
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The folds of a pleated "skirt" as they might appear if they were fifty feet tall and made of painted aluminum. |
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The "shuttles" are clad in gold colored, interference coated, stainless steel panels with a bead blast finish. This is a good place to point out the "shingles." These are the individual metal sheets that you can see here. Each one was individual cut and placed with custom made, counter sunk, tamper resistant screws that are interference color coated. Over 120,000 of them in all. Again, no two are the same. |
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Above, you can see that the gold colored stainless steel panels can take on a different appearance depending upon available light and your viewing angle. The curved edge that you see at the bottom of this picture is what we call a "knife edge." The material is folded back on itself, providing a nice, crisp line. |
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Stainless steel panels, with an angel hair finish, make for an almost monolithic appearance. |
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