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Multi-Storey Car Park, Slough

Multi-Storey Car Park (MSCP), Slough


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About the Project

RMIG ImagePerf perforated metal mesh was installed as cladding for the car park at a multi-national group headquarters in Slough.

ImagePerf uses perforations of varying aperture to represent the required image or brand logo. In this case a tree design.

The 3mm thick Aluminium sheets are fixed to Locker Architectural extrusion frames which are, in turn, bolted to the brickwork.

Installation by Canal Engineering.

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Sawston MSCP Unity Campus

Sawston Unity Campus MSCP

Sawston Unity Campus


Sawston Unity Campus Project Front View

Sawston Unity Campus multi-storey car park, clad in 2,600m2 of Locker laser-cut aluminium sheets, complete with graduated radiused vertical corrugations.

 

Sawston Unity Campus Project Front View
Photo kindly supplied by Unity Campus, with help from Limewash.

Locker successfully completed the full design, engineering, fabrication and installation of this project on time and within budget for Bourne Group.

The Architectural practice was Nicholas Hare.

Sawston Unity Campus Project Blue Print

Design challenges

  • Each panel had identical sinusoidal corrugations. The perforated pattern, as well as the depth and wavelength of the profile, can be varied to create a bespoke facade.
  • The panels were only 2mm thick but had to vertically span up to 3m unsupported. The radius profile of the panels had to be deep enough to impose the required rigidity.
  • The constraints of the rolling tool had to be considered when determining radii.
  • The panels were designed to overlap enabling neighbouring panels to share common fixings.
  • Wind, snow and ice forces were considered.
  • The design maintains rigidity whilst having a 40% laser-cut open area for air flow.
  • The slot centres were adjusted to take account of the sinusoidal radii.
  • The drawing extract below shows a typical laser-cut sheet prior to, and following radius forming:
Sawston Unity Campus Project Blue Print

Fabrication Challenges

  • Perforation slots had to be laser cut prior to forming the radii.
  • The slots were not to distort during the radius forming.
  • The perforated sheets had to be incrementally “bumped” in a break press to form the exact radii.
  • The sinusoidal radii had to be consistent from panel to panel.
  • The panels were grit blasted prior to being polyester powder-coated. The grit blasting process removes the toolmarks.
  • The corner panels were site measured and installed last.
  • The laser cut panels had to be consistently accurate to the millimetre as they could not be altered on site.
  • The following images show the mesh panels laser-cut in their unformed state and in their radiused condition: -
Sawston Unity Campus Project Mesh Panels
Sawston Unity Campus Project Mesh Panels

Installation Challenges

  • Setting out of the panels was key to the project success to avoid accumulative error. Our site careful survey avoided abortive works where steelwork was out of alignment.
  • The extract below shows how we had to adapt our setting out to accommodate the slope in the building from left to right. This we had to stagger each panel location by 8mm.
  • Installation was undertaken from all-terrain scissor lifts. No lifting gear was needed.
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Granta Park, Cambridge

Granta Park, Cambridge


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About the Project

Locker Gladstone 80/10 cable mesh installed using a Locker installation technique at Granta Park science, technology and biopharmaceutical park located on the banks of the River Granta in Great Abington near Cambridge.

The mesh is used as screening panels between green wall vertical cladding on a multi-storey car park.

Green wall supplied by, and credit for photos to ANS Global.
 

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Gladstone 80/10 architectural wire mesh installed at The Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Cork.

The Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Cork

The Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Cork


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Gladstone 80/10 architectural wire mesh installed at The Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Cork.

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Sainsbury's, Brentwood Essex Cladding - Car Park Soho XL

Sainsbury’s, Brentwood, Essex

Sainsbury's, Brentwood, Essex


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Soho XL powder coated expanded metal car park façade at Sainsburys Brentwood. The main façade is designed to appear as a seamless, randomly undulating ribbon of mesh. In reality the mesh panels are carefully designed to avoid any visible panelisation or connection. Curved metal banding seamlessly holds the panels in place.

Two additional flat clad headlight screens covered in similar expanded metal bands are designed to mimic the main façades, and protect nearby housing from intrusive car headlights. The deceptive curvilinear form provides an elegant architectural screen, which economically both enhances and disguises the functional steel frame behind.

Architect: CHQ Architects

 

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Princesshay Car Park Exeter Security Screens Gladstone PC 100/10

Princesshay Shopping Centre Car Park, Exeter

Princesshay Shopping Centre Car Park, Exeter


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Gladstone 100/10 architectural cable mesh and Gladstone PC 100/10 pre-crimped mesh installed as façade cladding at The Princesshay Shopping Centre Car Park in Exeter.

The Gladstone cable mesh is installed as an outer layer of façade cladding, over the pre-crimped mesh behind, creating a visual moiré effect. The internal layer of pre-crimped Gladstone mesh provides strong and effective security screening between the concrete car park levels.

View PDF Project Sheet: Princesshay Car Park

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Luton Airport Multi-Storey Car Park Luton Bird Netting Rope Diamond Ferruled

Luton Airport MSCP

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Leeds University Multi-Storey Car Park Leeds Cladding - Car Park Kirkstone

Leeds University Multi-Storey Car Park

Leeds University Multi-Storey Car Park


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About the Project

Officially opened in January 2016, Leeds University’s innovative multi-storey car park features Kirkstone perforated metal panels installed as a unique cladding design, with beautiful eye-catching night-time illumination.

Each Kirkstone square panel consists of 2 high points and 2 low points on opposite corners, joined by a central node, generating a 3D relief. Adjacent corners share a node point, as one geometric template panel is rotated repeatedly through 90 degrees to create an undulating surface precisely designed to achieve the free area required for passive natural ventilation. Perforations in the hyperbolic paraboloid panels are therefore both aesthetic and functional.

The Locker team was integral to the success of the project, from start to finish. Our designers worked in partnership with architect Carey Jones (CJCT) to devise the optimum cladding material. All options were considered, including fabric tension mesh, until the final perforated metal panel design was created.

For Wates Group (Shepherd Construction) Locker delivered structural engineering, design, fabrication and installation of the Kirkstone perforated panels, plus a green wall tensioned mesh façade to the lower floors along with all supporting mullions, steelwork and bracketry.

Locker wire mesh installed at Leeds University MSCP

The innovative structure of the car park façade along with the high quality of the end product has resulted in a shortlisting for a RICS award under the ‘Design through Innovation’ category.

Architect: Carey Jones (CJCT)

Construction: Wates Group (Shepherd Construction)

Professional photos courtesy of John Kees Photography

View PDF Project Sheet: Leeds University Multi-Storey Car Park

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Cork County Hall Car Park Cork Ireland Cladding - Car Park Gladstone PC 80/10

Cork County Hall Car Park, Cork, Eire

Cork County Hall Car Park, Cork, Eire


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Gladstone PC 80/10 architectural mesh installed as car park cladding at Cork County Hall Car Park, Cork, Eire.

Architect: Shay Cleary Architects

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Clarence Dock Leeds Cladding - Car Park Gladstone 80/10

Clarence Dock, Leeds

Clarence Dock, Leeds


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Gladstone 80/10 installed as car park cladding at Clarence Dock, Leeds. This architectural cable mesh was used to create a visually stunning and fire-resistant surface. The open area of the mesh creates a semi-transparent 'veil' effect which allows air to circulate freely.

Clarence Dock is a shopping and leisure centre in Leeds. It also has a large residential population in waterside apartments, and a significant number of business premises.

View PDF Project Sheet: Clarence Dock, Leeds

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