Architectural Mesh Transforms Exterior Parking Facades in Projects from Manitoba to Mississippi; Cambridge …

Cambridge, Maryland (PRWEB) May 12, 2014

Parking structures -- once considered the ugly ducklings of building design -- are now rising to become visually appealing additions to city and campus skylines as architects use metal mesh to transform and illuminate their exterior facades and create a canvas for corporate branding, lighting design, and public art.

Cambridge Architectural, the worlds leading full-service provider of sustainable architectural mesh systems for both exterior and interior commercial building applications, has seen its parking business grow as a result.

The company recently supplied custom designed stainless steel mesh and attachment systems for garages at Winnipegs McPhillips Station Casino and Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi and is currently working on a parking structure at 275 Wyman Street in Waltham, MA.

Other prominent parking projects for Cambridge in recent years include Awty International School in Houston and Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center.

We are seeing an increasing number of architectural firms coming to Cambridge on parking facility projects because they value our expertise in handling large installations and appreciate our ability and willingness to provide customized solutions, said Gary Compton, Cambridge Architectural brand manager. Architects prefer our large-weave flexible mesh patterns because they can be seen from a distance and unlike finer screens, they dont blend into the design.

In recent projects, architects have used Cambridge mesh to achieve a variety of design objectives, including sculpting the exteriors of a parking structure and adjacent buildings to integrate architecture and create a common look, and using lighting to illuminate mesh panels on garages in school and corporate colors.

Compton says Cambridge mesh also provides solutions for many key functional issues architects must consider when designing parking structures including solar shading, ventilation of exhaust fumes, headlight attenuation, and fall protection.

The transparent and reflective qualities of woven metal mesh make it ideal for parking facilities, he said. The openings in the mesh allow for air flow and daylighting while providing shading from intense sunlight. By night, the mesh allows views into the garage while reducing the glare of car headlights to the outside.

Cambridge offers a wide variety of woven mesh patterns and patented attachment systems for mounting the mesh to the parking structure. Patterns range from small weaves like Mid-Shade to large weaves like Pellican allowing for design flexibility.

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