The Titanic Belfast museum of Belfast, Northern Ireland, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s first voyage. The museum features an external façade with four 90-foot-high hulls. Atlanta-based Novelis Inc. provided 3,000 individual 3-D panels of J57S pre-anodized silver aluminum sheets. Metal continues to be used throughout the structure with a VMZINC standing seam roof from Umicore Building Products USA Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Supporting the roof is a warm roof decking board, Metdeck, by Metal Processors Ltd., Dublin, Ireland.
The six-story, 120,000-square-foot museum includes nine galleries that educate visitors on the Titanic’s construction as well as the maritime traditions of Northern Ireland. Designed to recreate the look and feel of the Titanic, the museum also contains recreations of the ship’s decks and cabins, an underwater exploration theater and a luxury conference suite.
Civic Arts/Eric R. Kuhne, London, was the concept architect; TODD Architects, Belfast, was the executive architect; Harcourt Construction, Belfast, was the builder; EDM Spanwall Facades, Belfast, fabricated the façade; Metallbau Früh of Umkrich, Germany, installed the façade; and Edgeline Metal Roofing Ltd., Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was the roofing contractor.
Novelis Inc., www.novelis.com
Metal Processors Ltd., www.metalprocessors.ie
Umicore Building Products USA Inc., www.vmzinc-us.com
