Treasure Island Resort and Casino, Welch, Minn.

by Christopher Brinckerhoff | 2 July 2018 12:00 am

RSP Architects Ltd. specified bright colored metal panels to accent its design for an expansion and renovation project at Treasure Island Resort and Casino. The project encompassed four of the facility’s structures: north and south hotel towers, a water park and teen pool pavilion. The centers of the hotel towers’ façades are clad with brown fiber-cement boards. Bright white and magenta metal panels frame the brown cladding and wrap around the south end-wall on the south tower. White and yellow metal panels were used for the water park and the teen pool pavilion.

Gordon Strom, AIA, CID, senior project manager at RSP Architects, said, “The hotel expansion features a clean, crisp look incorporating neutrals with a splash of color. The main portion of the hotel is clad in brown cement board combined with metal accents that include a magenta metal frame design. The striking curved prow stands out with white metal panels.”

The seven-story north hotel tower and the eight-story south hotel tower, called Wolf Towers, house 185,000 square feet. The expansion added 306 guest rooms to give the towers 788 guest rooms.

Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal Inc. fabricated and installed 15,400 square feet of 3A Composites USA Inc.’s 4-mm Alucobond PLUS aluminum composite material (ACM) panels on Wolf Towers. It fabricated the ACM with an angular design that has returns ranging from 4 inches to 1 inch.

With its dry-set system, Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal installed 7,900 square feet of ACM in Bone White and 3,900 square feet in custom Magenta. Additionally, Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal installed 1,800 square feet of ACM in Anodic Clear, 1,000 square feet in Statuary Bronze and 800 square feet in custom Nightfall.

The 25,000-square-foot water park, named The Lagoon, is to the north of the north hotel tower. It features water slides, a 320-foot lazy river, adults-only pool, swim-up bar, salon and spa.

For The Lagoon, Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal fabricated and installed 16,240 square feet of 4-mm Alucobond PLUS ACM. The project utilized 10,011 square feet of ACM in Bone White, 3,900 square feet in custom Cheerful Yellow and 2,329 square feet in Alabaster.

Ian Scott, LEED AP, was principal at RSP Architects before he died in December 2017. Scott said, “We wanted to create a design for The Lagoon that was much more dramatic and sculptural. The metal panels really helped us. The white color gave us a fresh change and clean break from the property’s original salmon-colored facade. The idea was to have one form with two identities that would angle up to the bluffs and river. We were able to utilize one material to create two sculptural shapes. When you look at the two colors of white panels from a certain angle, there’s a subtle change in color. The yellow metal panels are more dramatic and provide the design with a pop in color that is complementary, but brighter than the white metal panels.”

The 4,850-square-foot teen pool pavilion is adjacent to The Lagoon. “The teen pavilion features the same sculptural design but in another direction,” Scott said. “We had a set of mountains and just added another peak.”

A second fabricator/installer completed the ACM work on the teen pool pavilion. Using its dry-joint system, Specialty Systems Inc. fabricated and installed 4,135 square feet of 4-mm Alucobond PLUS ACM in Bone White and 1,688 square feet in Alabaster.

Charles Holley, project manager at Specialty Systems, said, “The Alucobond was fabricated into uniquely shaped panels that included parallelograms and trapezoids. Our challenge was to lay out the panels to make sure they lined up correctly. We used CAD software to make sure the shop drawings were very specific about the colors to be installed.”

Treasure Island Resort and Casino’s expansion and renovation project is part of a series of projects completed for $66.5 million from 2016 to 2017. The Lagoon was completed in February 2016 and the teen pool pavilion in May 2017. Wolf Towers were completed in December 2017.

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