Florida garage adds new twist to stainless steel mesh facadesPosted by freemexy on January 4th, 2021 Garages are fairly ubiquitous across Florida—the state has one of the highest car ownership rates in the country—but in recent years, the local typology has received a bit of a revamp. Opened in February 2019, Sarasota’s St. Armands Circle Garage continues this trend with a spiraling stainless steel mesh skin. The million project was designed by Sarasota-based Solstice Planning and Architecture and rises to a height of three stories to accommodate 480 spaces.To get more news about stainless steel architectural mesh, you can visit mesh-fabrics official website. The facade is clad with a total of 520 spiraling panels, with the majority measuring 1-foot wide by 20-feet tall. Encompassing over 9,000 linear feet of mesh, the panels are held together by 250,000 individual welds completed by hand by manufacturer Cambridge Architectural’s fabrication team. Located on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the project is prone to major hurricane winds during summer and fall. “In Sarasota we had to consider winds up to 50 percent higher than are common on most projects, so each of our system components required more custom design and manufacturing to account for extra wind load transfer,” said Cambridge Architectural business director David Zeitlin. “In addition, there needed to be close collaboration with the structural engineering team on an ongoing basis to ensure proper integration into the garage, and together that the project met industry standards.” The Volution panels were installed onto a series of tracks embedded in the concrete garage. (Courtesy Cambridge Architectural) Like it? Share it!More by this author |