At the Liberty Fund library, designed by Rowland Design, 4,771 square feet of etched metal fabric protects a priceless collection of books – but leaves it visible to people passing by.
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Market Segments: Education
Piper High School
Sun shading, daylighting, graphic design and space-utilization create a unique, 21st century learning environment. To promote school spirit and create an easily identifiable main entrance area, the school’s pirate mascot was custom etched by GKD into the Omega 1510 woven metal fabric.
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Plymouth High School
This massive sunshading facade consists of three panels of Omega 1510. Attached by extended loops and round bar at top and bottom, the panels also boost school pride with a custom etched graphic of the Plymouth South mascot.
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Salina South High School
When designing an improved main entrance to the school, DLR Group wanted to preserve the open courtyard in the front of the school. The design solution was to use GKD metal fabric as transparent signage that allows the school to showcase its brand without closing off the courtyard from the outside.
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Stanford University – Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Biology Research Building
The Bass Biology Research Building stands as the new cornerstone of Stanford’s quad. To emphasize science through storytelling, Knot created a first-of-its-kind, interactive public art piece called Morphogenesis, where biological images of scientific composition are prominently displayed on a GKD Mediamesh screen.
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UCLA Men’s Gym
For this campus gym, flexible metal fabric allowed designers to create a curved wall that reaches to the upper level, finishing as a balustrade for the railing system. The tensioned fabric defines the large area on the ground floor while keeping outside light flowing to the interior.
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Virginia Commonwealth University – James Branch Cabell Library
Students and faculty on approach to the James Branch Cabell Library at VCU are a captive audience for university communication. Mediamesh technology allows the school to project its ongoing messaging in a digital format while providing transparency from the inside and filtering the most intense daylight.
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Union Presbyterian Seminary
Expansive metal fabric screens constructed of Omega 1520 stainless steel and bronze provides a warm and dramatic backdrop for the chapel at this seminary, forms a balustrade for the balconies, and offers sunshading benefits for the large space.
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University of California San Francisco – Cardiovascular Research Building
Designed to allow the flow of natural light throughout this research and educational facility, SmithGroup architects also needed to mitigate the sun’s intensity. They identified the transparent benefits of metal mesh as the perfect sunshading option, installing 216 panels of GKD Lamelle metal fabric.
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University of Florida – Research and Academic Center at Lake Nona
Natural lighting, outward transparency and optimum solar protection were achieved by this metal fabric sunshading system at this research facility in Lake Nona, Florida. The façade is made up of ten trapezoidal metal fabric panels that wrap the front of the building like a protective shield.
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