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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
PRECISE WRAPPING
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, a major regional venue with a storied history, had fallen into disrepair when SHoP architects was brought in to reconceive the look and feel of the structure. The design team saw an opportunity to retain the strong massing of the arena while at the same time transforming it. “This building had great bones,” said John Cerone, associate principal and director of virtual design and construction, SHoP Architects. “With its thick concrete piers, we knew it could hold much more. We decided to clip a metal design element to the existing structure.” The wrapping consists of approximately 4,700 unique “fins” created with
ALUCOBOND® PLUS naturAL Brushed. “Each of the elements in this system varies slightly in profile and dimension to create a subtle flow that reflects the big skies. Each of these fins has six folds. We knew this would be a complicated folding and routing process. We wanted clean lines and several fields of interest to look at as you walk closer to the individual fins. The ALUCOBOND® material expresses flexibility. It is very easy to form into precise shapes”, he finally explains.
According to the fabricator Sobot: “ALUCOBOND® is the only material with which you can actually produce these shapes. It would be impossible to make these shapes with solid aluminium sheets; they can’t be folded in this fashion.”
Project: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Architect: SHoP Architects
Product: ALUCOBOND® PLUS naturAL Brushed
Photos: Jamey Price Photography
