Metal panels clad dome & minaret

by Jonathan McGaha | January 31, 2009 12:00 am

The Burnaby Mosque in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, includes prayer halls for men and women, social halls, an education center, youth center and a library that is open to the general public. The portal dome was prefabricated from wood in two halves and shipped to the site for assembly and installation.

Cambridge, Mass.-based RHEINZINK America Inc. supplied 0.03-inch
(0.7-mm), 24- gauge Preweathered Blue Gray Flat-Lock Tiles. They clad the large, 560-square-foot (52-m2) dome and the smaller, 215-square-foot (20-m2) minaret. Georg Koslowski, RHEINZINK’s director of technical services, sized the Flat-Lock Tiles by taking into consideration the dome and minaret’s curvatures, as well as the bendability of the RHEINZINK material relative to thickness and dome diameter in order to clad the structures without mechanical curving.

Sharif Senibel, Vancouver, British Columbia, was the architect; Altus Engineering Ltd., Vancouver, was the dome fabricator; and LIM Cladding, Surrey, British Columbia, was the RHEINZINK fabricator/installer.

RHEINZINK America Inc.

Source URL: https://www.metalarchitecture.com/projects/metal-panels-clad-dome-minaret/

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