Fiber Cement

Hudson Valley Community College’s Gene F. Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing Skills (CAMS) – is a new $14.5 million, 37,000 square foot building designed by Mosaic Associates, a Troy-based architecture firm. The center will allow the college to double enrollment in the Advanced Manufacturing Technology (A.O.S.) degree program and meet an urgent workforce demand for skilled employees in the region.

Mosaic’s design team selected Swisspearl’s fiber cement panels and a VZ.10 adjustable rainscreen subframing to clad the exterior of the building. This is the second building on the Hudson Valley CC campus to incorporate Swisspearl panels.

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For this apartment building located within a brief walk from Cornell University, Ikon 5 Architects selected the high-quality Swisspearl fiber cement rainscreen facade panels and paired them with a thermally broken ECO Cladding Hci.10 subframing system. The project is a block away from the University and the growing demand for housing has created many opportunities for owners to make improvements around town. The facade incorporates four different Swisspearl colors including three metallic Reflex colors. The thermally broken Hci.10 subframing system was selected since the Alpha wall brackets allow for fewer penetrations into the air barrier. This approach offers a more thermally efficient wall design and is compliant with continuous insulation requirements. College housing... taken to a whole new level!

BASE4 Architects designed the new Marriott AC Hotel with a Swisspearl fiber cement rainscreen facade and a thermally-broken ECO Cladding Vci.40 sub-framing system. For this modern hotel chain, Swisspearl’s Avera and Carat series were selected to provide a high-quality, maintenance-free exterior façade. For the panel subframing, the adjustable Vci Alpha brackets are thermally broken and create an engineered wall solution. 

ECO Cladding provides fully-engineered system-based solutions, in which both cladding and substructure are engineered to accommodate project wind loads, seismic loads, building slab to slab deflections, and thermal movements of materials. The 1.5” adjustability of the Alpha Vci bracketed system allowed for a fast and worry-free installation.

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SLAM Collaborative - CT has designed another eye-catching rainscreen design with the new James L. McGuire Elementary School. Continuing their history of using Swisspearl fiber cement panels, SLAM was the first project in the USA to incorporate the new Swisspearl Reflex Dark Silver metallic color. One of the strengths of the Reflex Dark Silver metallic color from Swisspearl is the ability to be fabricated into unique shapes, and what better location for a fun, creative design than an elementary school.

The design team utilized an Alpha Hci.10 face-fastened subframing system with two different bracket lengths to accommodate the innovative design and variations in cavity depth. With this project, all involved parties rose to the challenge of this innovative design, with SLAM leading the charge with developing these eye-catching details.

Designed by Payette, the Northeastern University Pedestrian Bridge intends to connect the main campus with the expanding Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. One of Payette’s design requirements was to incorporate facade materials that would require minimal maintenance. Instead of employing the conventional ‘curl-over’ guard rail fencing typical on bridges that cross railways, the new bridge’s steel panels angle outward and grow in height to attain the necessary protection over the catenary wires.
The bridge’s Swisspearl fiber cement panels are set to be installed using our Alpha Vci.40 concealed aluminum subframing system.

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FXFOWLE Architects, designed SUNY Purchase’s new 75,000 SF Center for Integrated Technology & Learning as a combined center for the School of Theater Arts, the School of Film & Media Studies, and other related arts programs. The new facility will add an entry pavilion and gathering space for students. The screen wall design feature incorporated two layers for walls, using Swisspearl fiber cement panels as accent panels in greyscale. The exterior layer has a perforated metal screen. The fiber cement panels were fastened using our Hci.11 Visible Rivet System.

Drummey Rosane Anderson (DRA) designed the new Staff Sergeant James Hill Elementary School with transparency and materiality to connect it with its surroundings and establish a benchmark for downtown Revere urban renewal. The design features large glass expanses that serve to have interior areas experienced at the exterior streetscape as well as to connect interior spaces to favorable exterior views. The building has accent areas of glass detailed with Swisspearl fiber cement cladding which are used both to organize the elevation and to express special program areas on the interior of the building. A Hci.10 subframing was incorporated into the facade. 

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Arrowstreet designed a 230-unit, 220,000-square-foot residential building as a part of the revitalization of Revere’s Waterfront Square. The project includes a community/coworking space, courtyard, pool, and a 315-space parking garage. The building is a 5-story wood high-rise over 2 stories of podium parking. Swisspearl Largo fiber cement rainscreen panels work in tandem with HPL wood grain panels. The main colors used in the bold facade were Platinum 9020, REFLEX Dark Silver 9221 and Satin White 9291.A VZ.10 and Vci.40 subframing system was utilized. Located across from Revere Beach, the design creates an upscale residential feel in both amenity spaces and the units.

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The University of Arkansas Garage is an outstanding award-winning project and has inspired numerous other university-based projects across the country. Designed by Des Moines-based HLKB Architecure, installation incorporated a Terra5 Terracotta Rainscreen, a fiber cement rainscreen, and a unique Terra5 Baguette Sunscreen, all supplied by Cladding Corp. Vci.45 and Vci.11 subframing systems formed the basis for all of the rainscreen attachments, including a custom-tailored sunscreen assembly solution, engineered by ECO Cladding.

Cox Graae Spack Architects and DC District Schools selected Swisspearl's fiber cement panels for the restoration of Houston Elementary School in Gilbert, AZ.  Four colors, vertical layout, random widths were no problem for Swisspearl's easily fabricated panels. Creative abounds and the playfulness of this school yard is contemporary, crisp, and timeless. An adjustable VZ.10 aluminum subframing allowed the installers to deliver perfect symmetry.