Complementary Curved Canopy

by Marcy Marro | May 1, 2019 12:00 am

The renovation featured a metal roof topping a curved canopy large enough for six cars to park under … it extends just more than 50 feet from the building. Bossier City, La.-based McElroy Metal[1] provided the batten seam metal roofing as well as the metal flush panels installed on the bottom of the canopy. In addition to installing the roofing and flush panels, Dobson Contractors[2], Garland, Texas, installed the fascia on the canopy.

“We demolished the wall of that part of the three-story building, a curtainwall system,” says project manager Don McGee, president and CEO of BMA Architects[3], Duncanville, Texas. “The original building had no protected entryway and the congregation has many older members. Because the facility was constructed in the late 1950s or early 1960s, the congregation wanted to incorporate a more contemporary look.

“We really opened up that entire part of the building. The original architecture, the fenestrations, were really quite small, punch windows. The glass on the front under the entryway really opened up the lobby, creating a visiting space for the congregation. They put in a coffee shop across from the offices. It’s really quite welcoming now. The third floor is used for the youth game room and that has a different feel now, more open.”

The front of the building is a light beige stucco and masonry, so McGee says McElroy Metal’s Medallion I batten standing seam panels in PVDF Dark Bronze were specified for a complimentary aesthetic.

“We thought metal was a good way to go,” he says. “To stand out from the straight lines of the building, we believed a curved entryway canopy would look better. The Medallion I can be curved on-site, so the installer recommended it. A few years before our renovation, they replaced some windows and they selected a dark bronze window frame, so it was a pretty easy decision to match up with that.”

Medallion I is an architectural standing seam system that utilizes separate batten caps installed over the legs of adjacent panels. The 24-gauge Galvalume panels are 12 inches wide.

“The panels were delivered and then we curved them at the jobsite,” says Johnny Alexander, operations manager at Dobson Contractors. “Once we got them into place, the panels and the batten installed relatively the same as non-curved panels.”

Alexander says the entryway met and exceeded the expectations of the congregation at the Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church. “It was a great renovation.”

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Ken Gieseke is the vice president of marketing at McElroy Metal, Bossier City, La. For more information, visit www.mcelroymetal.com[4].

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