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Evansville North High School in
Evansville, Ind., is a 480,000-square-foot complex featuring a high school and a junior high school. The school was designed to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population. Approximately 46,000 square feet of Indianapolis-based Citadel Architectural Products’ Envelope 2000 metal composite material (MCM) in Sherwood Green and Desert Sand were installed using Citadel’s Reveal (RV) System.
The panels interface with masonry and a limited amount of EIFS. “We didn’t want the school to look like a prison with a regimented design,” according to Mike Shoulders, architect and CEO of VPS Architecture, Evansville. “Our intent was that the design be inspirational and encourage students to be creative and to think outside the box.”
Metal was chosen to break up the pattern of strictly using masonry, as Shoulders notes: “Although we feel masonry is a good value, we couldn’t imagine the entire building being brick. It needed another good material partner. We liked the complementary colors of the Citadel panels and the brick. It went together marvelously. And with the articulation of the ends and the window walls, the combination of materials really allowed the design to come together nicely.” According to Shoulders, the building features a lot of articulation on the exterior, as it is a large building with a number of wings.
The Citadel panels were installed by Weddle Brothers Construction, Evansville, and the Citadel distributor was Spohn Associates Inc., Indianapolis.
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