Architect Jenny Wyness chose cross-laminated timber — a smart engineered timber product which turns dimensional lumber into strong, rigid, dimensionally stable structural timber panels — for the building's structure, alongside sustainably - sourced Scottish larch for the cladding, and
corrugated galvanised steel roof sheeting, which is «a cheap, traditional roofing material in the area.»
Google «Corrugated Iron» and you will see that this is a common usage for
corrugated galvanised mild steel.
The first work to be seen in the space, Lewis Teague Wright's «Suspicions In, For, Without Paradise», embodies this contrast sharply with its thin twists of copper plated bronze entwined around a pillar of
corrugated galvanised steel.
Not exact matches
The words «
galvanise» and «hit» perhaps draw the most immediate connection to a large - scale sheet of
corrugated metal, similar to those used on roofs, which visually dominates the overall installation.
Roof: Traditional 3»
corrugated cladding consisting of 0.7 mm thick PVC Plastisol coated
galvanised steel externally, with 25x75mm vertical battens at 600 mm centres with 50x50mm horizontal battens fixed at 600 mm centres, with Timco 300INW 8 x 300 wafer head screw on 180 mm Kingspan Kooltherm K7 rigid insulation, on Intello Plus airtightness membrane and vapour check, on 120 mm cross-laminated timber panel forming main roof structure or 78 mm cross-laminated timber panel kitchen roof structure.
They quote that «sheets of standard Birmingham grade
galvanised iron are used, truly and evenly
corrugated, thickly coated with pure Silesian spelter, true and even in temper, and free from flaws and cracks.»