ALUCOLUX .063″ (1.6mm) in JLR Champagne Metallic

After forty years, moisture and water infiltration had compromised the facade at the Mears Middle School in Anchorage, AK, and the Anchorage School District wanted a high-performance solution capable of withstanding the rigors of the Alaskan climate. The design team at Nvision Architecture (“Nvision”) envisioned an exterior that would celebrate and complement the lush, wooded landscape surrounding the campus. Their goal was to turn the building’s envelope into a meaningful, artistic representation of the community’s natural identity.

 

ALUCOLUX .063" in JLR Champagne Metallic was selected for the building exterior. The solid composition of ALUCOLUX provided the ideal balance of weight and strength. This allowed the fabricator to execute thousands of unique perforations across the building’s massive surface area, ensuring the panels could withstand high wind loads and the extreme thermal expansion typical of the region.

 

“The forest imagery was created through varying hole densities,” explains Preston Rudderow, Exterior Technology Systems. “Larger holes read as darker shadows, while smaller holes capture the highlights. The stability of the ALUCOLUX single-skin aluminum allowed us to maintain this level of intricate detail across the building’s massive 60,000-square-foot surface area without losing performance.”

 

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