Metal Cladding for Residential (as used by Frank Gehry)

If you are talking about the metal on the Disney Concert Hall, you are talking about stainless steel. The Guggenheim in Bilbao is sheathed in titanium. These items are so hight ticket that I don't think even Gehry uses them residentially. Remember that he uses a french aerospace computer program to design and create shop drawings so that he can use the material as effectively as possible.

Gehry made his reputation with clients, in part, because of on-time and under budget delivery. If you look back twenty years or so (to his house), his signature materials were corrugated metal and plywood. His budgets have increased exponentially.

Bearch is correct on all counts-
But- Metal shingles have been used for a long long time- You could get the look by having a sheetmetal shop punch out metal scales into any size you desired. You could use any number of metals- It wouldn't be Cheap but it wouldn't be aerospace expensive either.

See the web site for metal siding manufacturer Atas www.atas.com

They have several styles of metal shingles. They can be had in painted steel, galvalume, painted aluminum, anodized aluminum, copper, and zinc. No titanium or stainless, but some great options.

How about these. I read that they are going to begin making them in large sheets as well. I have no idea about the cost.

http://www.millenniumtiles.com/

Jvanka,

Don't bother going to a stainless steel artist as you are going to get stainless steel artist prices. Call up your local sheet metal shop and/or metal roofing contractor and tell them you want a flat-seam roof application, in whatever sheet metal you desire (stainless, galvalum, zinc, pre-painted metal, copper, etc) The flat seam scales can be diamond shaped as Greg showed above, or square/rectangular as is more common. You'll find that MOST of the tiles can be applied to any doubly curved surface with NO modification, but as you get to the edges of the surface tiles will need to be field modified, or measurements will need to be taken back to the shop and special tiles created to deal with the edge condition. You'll probably be wanting to work with 24 gauge sheet metal, for economy' sake, but may want to go thicker to limit oil-canning of the metal surface.

What is the pic you attached above?

Mark

Have you looked at these guys?
[url href=http://us.rheinzink.de/]Rheinzink[/url]

Also McMaster-Carr sells metal sheets:
[url href=http://www.mcmaster.com/]McMaster-Carr[/url]

Just to let you know a 4'x4' sheet of stainless steel runs around $96.

titanium....they sell a 24x36 sheet for around $220. They let you mess around with the sheet sizes and grades of metal. Its a good site for research of materials if nothing else.

We looked at this for a house we're building. Both stainless from Excalibur (google stainless and shingles) and Rheinzink. Both are nice and, Rheinzink is a lot cheaper to buy to install and carries a much better track record in durability.

PLUS, it is available both in matt and polished.

We finally found stainless panels that we believe will work pretty well.

Here is the link of the product: http://www.millenniumtiles.com/gallery.htm

We are using tiles with no pattern-stamping.

Attached are photos of our project where we are installing the tiles.

 Thats a fab piece of architecture, who designed this building? I also love the metal cladding

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