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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The only reservation I have is how those big panels will age over time. Will they require constant resurfacing or discolor? What are they made of? Aluminum or something?
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its probably going to be some kind of custom perforated aluminum by the looks of it...Aluminum makes sense for corrosion resistance....could be raw or anodized (more expensive)
I think that the rendering doesn't show the steel substructure support (HSS) members that this will require (think of it as metal 'studs')
panels typically come out as 4x8' or 4x10' sheet, so you would need structural support that align with one of those dimensions...
any perforated surface allows the back structure to be seen though the perforations... or you can get dark spots, like the print margins of a poster... while you can get 'full bleed' prints, typically, this requires additional work to trim the edges.
With a perforated material, that would mean not perforating right up to the edges, as the HSS structure would be seen... while you can offset the panels from the structure using a girt (like hat channel) so the structure isn't right against the perforation, it is more work (and therefore cost) to do that as opposed to directly fastening the panels right onto the HSS...
no problem with perforated aluminum; not really a fan of the 'peeling back' aesthetic though as it harkens back to the 'deconstruction' aesthetic of the 80s... if you are under it, then you just see the underside of that (unless you double clad it)