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Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects (DSRNY), design architect, and Anderson Mason DaleArchitects, executive architect, designed the façade of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum (USOPM), with with 9,000 folded, diamond-shaped anodized aluminum panels.
The museum’s façade expresses the twisting and turning of an otherwise black-box museum. Yushiro Okamoto, associate at DSRNY, says, “It’s a dynamic surface and we wanted the skin to feel tightly stretched onto a uniform surface of the museum structure inside. We wanted visitors to feel the tension in the surface, like a taut suit.”
To conform to the twisting geometry of the museum, Okamoto says the design team collaborated with Radius Track Corp. to develop a curved sheathing, with cold-formed metal framing, which is attached to the primary steel structure with an axial connection. Each panel is fastened to the metal framing with 2 3/8-inch Z-girts that run through to the sheathing. “It was an exciting and collaborative learning process for all of us,” Okamoto says.
MG McGrath fabricated 100,000 square feet of Lorin Industries Inc.’s 0.063-inch Class 1 anodized aluminum ClearMatt Brushed, in 48-inch by 137- inch sheets, into a custom rainscreen panel system.
Additionally, MG McGrath installed 11,000 square feet of Resliance Cassette curtainwall framing from Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope with VE1-85 insulated glass and spandrel from Viracon Inc. MG McGrath also fabricated and installed 4,800 square feet of its D-set panel system with 4-mm Vitrabond aluminum composite material from Fairview Architectural North America for trim.
