A band of abstract tiger stripes in monochromatic tones wraps around the bottom portion of walls on the exterior of Millennium High School’s Rise and Roar Center in Goodyear, Ariz. Above the abstract tiger stripes, signifying the school’s Tiger mascot, bright purple panels emphasize the building’s interior volume and display school colors. Furthermore, the pattern of metal panels break up the mass of the 4,180.64-m2 (45,000-sf) gymnasium and multiuse facility.
Jesse Ross, AIA, project architect at BWS Architects, says thorough planning helped to translate the striped pattern to installers. “While our pattern appears complex, we were able to keep to a standard panel size and connections, leading to few to no custom details. There’s always the fear that what you put on paper may not translate into reality, but the pattern turned out just as we had hoped.”
To build it, Mike Villa, project manager at Progressive Roofing, says, “We laid it out like an individual puzzle section; we created a pattern in a 20-ft-by-20-ft [6.1-m-by-6.1-m] module. It becomes really hard to see that it really is a pattern.”
General contractor: McCarthy Building Cos. Inc., Tempe, Ariz., mccarthy.com
Architect: BWS Architects, Phoenix, bwsarchitects.com
Installer: Progressive Roofing, Phoenix, progressiveroofing.us
Metal wall panels: Petersen Aluminum Corp., Elk Grove Village, Ill., pac-clad.com
