November 9, 2018 - A major component of the University of Melbourne’s $66 million redevelopment project was the renovation of the university’s Faculty of Arts building.
One of the most stunning and distinctive visual features of the building is its louvered façade, which involved a groundbreaking use of steel coated in zinc by Valmont Coatings.
The building, in Melbourne, Australia, effectively has two skins: a glass wall and a structure of parallel horizontal steel fins or louvers—resembling deep exterior Venetian blinds.
The steel sections of each louvre were shaped so that they form a series of 3D images. The images are “pressed” into the façade and reveal themselves to viewers at different times of the day and from various angles. The images feature selected objects from the university’s 23 cultural collections.
Photos: Valmont Coatings
