#roof monitor

Large vinyl exterior home photo of a one-story country beige house with a metal roof.

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VJAA - Hennepin County Walker LIbrary   http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/hennepin-county-walker-library_o

“…the cladding on the upper portion of the facade was developed as a stainless steel roof tile, and we applied it to the façade. It’s become very popular because it’s relatively inexpensive, but the trick is you have to detail it carefully. If you use conventional termination techniques—cladding with extra strips and cover plates—it gets really clumsy. So we created a set of very inexpensive custom-molded metal details to make the corners very crisp and keep the abstract quality. We found a good balance between the variability of the material and the continuity and consistency. And in the end, it is really amazing how, because of the different angle in each tile, it picks up light in unusual ways…”

“….The glazing in the monitors has a simple yellow laminate in it. When the light bounces into the monitor, the color of the glass window bounces in and down into the reading rooms. It really depends on where the sun is in the sky, and whether it’s hitting directly onto the monitors. But, because they’re all facing different directions, they take up direct sun at different points, as the light changes over the course of the day…..And when the sun goes down, they turn blue because the yellow is no longer illuminating it, just the LED fixtures inside that pick up the blue wall surface. It’s a way of adding an animated element to the upper part of the room for your eye to go to…”