Description
Clad with a terra cotta shingle system, this three story building houses labs and offices designed to serve the citizens of Kansas.
A state of the art building should have a state of the art envelop to protect it and this open joint rain screen cladding system does just that. With the economy of a modular tile that is light weight and uniform in size, one terra cotta shingle nests into the other in a progressive install. While the design sheds much of the moisture that hits the building, it doesn’t stop it all and that is where a well designed and installed rain screen system comes into play.
The key is to manage that moisture is such a way as to campture it and redirect it out back to daylight. SSM installed a series of horizontal support tracks carry the shingles while allowing gravity to do the thing it likes to do with any moisture behind the system. Flashing components, working with the water proof membrane, redirects the moisture out. While the trims finish off the exposed edges of the shingles at corners, around windows and the other openings around the building.
SSM also fabricated and installed the other cladding components like the insulated metal panels, the mechanical screens, column covers, fascia cladding and trims.
Working together, these components provide a beautiful, long lasting cladding solution that will protect the interior of this building for years to come.
