Cambridge Architectural has provided its stainless steel mesh façade shades and protects the modern Taylor Family Digital Library located in the campus of University of Calgary.
Taylor Family Digital Libray at the University of Calgary
The library contains 32,000 print monographs, 847,461 architectural drawings, one million and above maps and aerial photographs. The mesh facades from Cambridge Architectural provide an aesthetical quality to the learning and research centre.
The facility covering an area of 265,000 sq.ft and designed by Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning combines art collections, archives, academic support services and libraries into one location and has been designed in order to meet the requirements for LEED Gold Certification. The mesh façade provides solar shading and in turn optimises the performance of energy and allows natural daylight into the building. The mesh has completely been made using recyclable materials. According to Bill Chomik who is the Principal Design Architect for the project, the mesh facades from the company were chosen for three particular reasons. The mesh provided solar shading and drastically reduced solar gain into the Information Commons which is the centrepiece of the library. The mesh reduced glare and increased the aesthetical value of the building. The solar shading was done for an area of 5630 sq.ft using Mid-Balance weave from Cambridge Architectural. It uses the Eclipse attachment which conceals the mesh in a tube thus giving a clean look to the solar shading. The façade was installed by Flynn Canada from Ontario and the general contractor for the project was CANA Construction from Calgary.
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