Metal Construction News, November 2018

PROJECT FOCUS HOSPITALITY Treasure Island Resort and Casino Welch Minn RSP Architects Ltd specifi ed 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 facilitys structures north and south hotel towers a water park and teen pool pavilion The centers of the hotel towers façades are clad with brown fi ber 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 eightstory south hotel tower called Wolf Towers house 185000 square feet The expansion added 306 guest rooms to give the towers 788 guest rooms Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal Inc fabricated and installed 15400 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 7900 square feet of ACM in Bone White and 3900 square feet in custom Magenta Additionally Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal installed 1800 square feet of ACM in Anodic Clear 1000 square feet in Statuary Bronze and 800 square feet in custom Nightfall The 25000 square foot water park named The Lagoon is to the north of the north hotel tower It features waterslides a 320 foot lazy river adults only pool swim up bar salon and spa For The Lagoon Atomic Architectural Sheet Metal fabricated and installed 16240 square feet of 4 mm Alucobond PLUS ACM The project utilized 10011 square feet of ACM in Bone White 3900 square feet in custom Cheerful Yellow and 2329 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 propertys original salmon colored facade The idea was to have one form with two identities that would angle up to the bluffs and river We Photos Mark Kempf Photography courtesy of 3A Composites USA 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 theres 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 4850 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 4135 square feet of 4 mm Alucobond PLUS ACM in Bone White and 1688 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 specifi c about the colors to be installed Treasure Island Resort and Casinos expansion and renovation project is part of a series of projects completed for 665 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 www metalconstruct ionnews com 42 METAL CONSTRUCTION NEWS November 2018