Flat-lock panel system
Architectural — Nova Scotia
Coastal Cultural Centre
A faceted public building clad in flat-lock panels, with the facade folding up and over the roof plane.
- Roof area
- On request
- Facade area
- On request
- Longest sheet
- On request
- Completion
- On request
A civic building on an exposed coastal site, where the envelope had to survive salt-laden wind and read as a single continuous surface across a complex faceted geometry.
Flat-lock panels were set out per facet from the architect's model, with every panel dimension produced to the setting-out drawing.
Coastal Cultural Centre — roof and trim detail
Coastal Cultural Centre — profile and junction close-up
Specification
Products used on this project
Roof, facade and system components supplied from Finland on a single delivery program.
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