Photo: Robert Benson
The Bobby Valentine Health and Recreation Center at Sacred Heart University is used as a social and fitness hub for student recreation, club sports, intramurals and the fitness department.
The 52,000-square-foot building features a soaring prow and cantilevered roof shelters the entry and shades extensive glass that provides panoramic views of surrounding sports fields. At dusk, the building glows against the campus skyline with a 50-foot, glass-enclosed climbing wall.
The interior design for the fitness half of the building is visually open and flooded with daylight. An inwardly focused gymnasium wing of the building is a crisp, metal box clad with insulated metal panels (IMPs), contrasting with the glassy end of the building with its solidity.
The horizontal panels have a pattern of metallic color tones to disguise and integrate horizontal windows of an elevated running track level into a unified billboard wall. At dark, a large, edge-lit university logo hidden in the wall patterning appears.
Total Wall Systems Inc. installed 9,500 square feet of Kingspan Insulated Panels Inc.’s Designwall 4000 IMPs in Silversmith, Pewter and Zinc. The IMPs are 3 inches thick and have 22-gauge G90 steel exterior face sheets and 24-gauge G90 steel interior face sheets.
For rooftop equipment screening, Total Wall Systems installed Morin Corp.’s Y-36 exposed fastener metal wall panels in Silversmith.
