Exteriors Lookbook by Arktura

CUSTOM MANUFACTURING & STANDARD PRODUCTS LOOKBOOK

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FACADES

UNIQUE IDENTITY FOR FOULGER-PRATT’S HQ

The exterior features multiple panels installed by Reliant Drywall, creating a bright, modern facade surrounding the building’s signature “1900” landmark signage which required additional detailing and engineering. This dazzling pattern is also seen in various, smaller waypoint-finding markers on the property leading to the building’s main entrance.

WDG Architecture Vienna, VA

1900 GALLOWS ROAD

The 1900 Gallows Rd office building in Tysons, VA, features a striking façade adorned with over 2,000 square feet of custom-designed Vapor® panels in a Burnished Bronze finish. Collaborating with WDG Architecture, this 8-story structure showcases a linear perforated design that creates a welcoming, illuminated entrance. The dazzling pattern not only distinguishes the building but also extends to waypoint markers guiding visitors to the main entrance, seamlessly integrating functionality and modern aesthetics.

STEINBERG PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, USA

EPIPHANY

Steinberg Hart partnered with Arktura to develop a backlit perforated facade as a feature design element of the Epiphany Hotel’s renovation. The design of the hotel focuses on sustainability through the application of all materials. As a result, Arktura manufactured powder-coated aluminum Graphic Perf® Photoreal Exterior panels and frosted polycarbonate backers to diffuse the arboreal image’s glowing illumination. The combination of materiality and its expression aids in capturing the spirit of Palo Alto - curious, optimistic, vital, and entrepreneurial.

GRAPHIC PERF ® PHOTOREAL

ENVIRONMENTALLY CALCULATED FACADES

Graphic Perf® Solutions offers two paths to make metal your canvas - Photoreal and Scripted. Both options from Arktura’s Solutions Studio create wonders through a combination of collaboration and proprietary technology.

GRAPHIC PERF ® PHOTOREAL

CUSTOM RAIN SCREENS

The Graphic Perf® Photoreal system begins with you and your image of choice. That image is then translated into a pattern, and we work our perforated magic to bring the vision to life.

CARPENTER SELLERS DEL GATTO ARCHITECTS

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA

PARKDALE COMMUNITY CENTER

The new Parkdale Recreation Center opened, featuring custom rain screens, designed by Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto, as a beacon for the neighborhood and was honored as an AIA Design Award Winner. Arktura’s Graphic Perf® exterior system was used to provide a warm welcome and homage to the surrounding community. The aluminum panels were designed and fabricated - down to each individual hole size and placement - to combine striking text within the facade’s artistic expressive character. The panel cladding combines beautifully with the salvaged wood and metal components reused in the new structure from the previous community center that was demolished for this project. The new center serves as a beacon and symbol for the community’s culture and recreational resources it provides.

GRAPHIC PERF ®

LIGHT & INVITING ENTRANCE

The Graphic Perf® Scripted process uses patterns or designs as inspiration, and our software allows for a multitude of options to individually design each shape, perforation, and opening. Then our machines perforate these tileable grid compatible panels.

PERKINS + WILL TYSONS, VIRGINIA, USA

TYSONS

The renovation of 1676 International, Tysons Drive involved the transformation of the entrance from a heavy canopy to something that would be light and inviting. This was accomplished with a large tapered form that draws people inside. The form is also further emphasized and highlighted by a custom scripted gradient pattern of backlit perforations that transition to a solid relief pattern further in. The combination of the backlighting and the champagne color create a glowing entrance, particularly at night.

ESI DESIGN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA

160 W SANTA CLARA

ESI Design reimagined interior lobby of 160 W Santa Clara, extends to the grand exterior entry with a Vapor® Graphic Perf® hybrid interior and exterior installation featuring RGB Backlighting that is programmed to cycle through illumination shows, both day and night. In a nod to both its location in Silicon Valley and the Santa Clara Valley, the custom perforations developed in concert with the Arktura Design team mimic the ones and zeroes of digital code and meander into organic patterns creating a coded map of the area’s waterways. The backlighting fades in and out of different gradients, providing movement and soothing spectral shifts that establish a welcoming, dynamic, and coveted character to visitors and tenants alike.

VAPOR ® GRAPHIC PERF ®

ILLUMINATION THROUGH PERFORATION

GENSLER

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

KILROY

The Sunset Media Center in Los Angeles is a mixed-use development combining multiple levels of program. It acts as destination in the busy Sunset Corridor but also a familiar hub in the daily lives of the people who work there. As part of the building’s recent renovation, Arktura created a custom louvered facade that transitions down three levels of parking and melds with exterior ceiling system baffles from our Atmosphera® family of products.

COHESIVE FACADE & BAFFLE SYSTEM

Acoustic wellness built with both indoors and outdoors in mind.

ATMOSPHERA® ANALOG

RAINSCREENS & SUNSHADES

ABRAMSON ARCHITECTS

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA

BRICK & MACHINE

If the perfect solution for your next project isn’t available, build it yourself. This Solutions Studio® project bridges two distinct exterior styles; the building has a painted historic brick facade, alluding to this rustic look in the area, which transitions to a modern taste of the mechanized built environment, bringing this historic look to the future.

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

MODERN AND MECHANIZED

The project features a series of fully custom-made rolling metal panels spanning both the facade of the building and the open-air balconies. Some panels are set while others are mechanized, allowing range of motion. This movement is a key feature as it enables the finely crafted panels to protect against the glare of the ever-moving sun, helping control the internal temperature of the building.

By repositioning the layered screens, users can adjust light, shade, and privacy levels. These stunning panels provide a beautiful dappled light effect through design, quality, and durability throughout the space.

“It’s about understanding the city at a larger scale and seeing a way for that urban logic to fit into a building. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. Maybe it just seeped in.

- WARREN TECHENTIN (METROPOLIS)

WARREN TECHENTIN ARCHITECTURE INC

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

1313 SUNSET

Los Angeles-based firm Warren Techentin Architecture enlisted Arktura to design and manufacture its Elysian Fields exterior feature facade. The cladding comprised of Exterior Graphic Perf® designed in tandem with Arktura’s Solution Studio® to pay homage to nearby automotive body shops. The eprforated and formed aluminum panels gently curve along Sunset Boulevard providing protection against the harsh sun. It supports flared voids to allow the inclusion of expansive sliding windows for the residences within. In keeping up with the ever-changing eclectic character of Los Angeles, this project provides a parametric poem of perforations to the neighborhood it graciously nests within.

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA

TESLA

At the crossroad of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place, with Michael W. Folonis Architects and Arktura’s Solution Studio®’s guidance, Tesla developed a facade inspired by the namesake of the company, Nikola Tesla, and magnetic flux diagrams to wrap the exterior facade of their flagship auto showroom. Translating the inspired brief, Arktura utilized proprietary software to develop the complex curved custom exterior Graphic Perf® system into a synergetic graphic form to capture the relationship between magnetic flux and electron decay. The resulting facade is visually impactful and filters heat, sunlight, and serves as a rain shield while representing the electric propulsion’s linear energy release.

FOLONIS ARCHITECTURE

GRAPHIC PERF ® ROLLED CURVE PERFORATED PANELING

Collaboration is at the heart of every Solutions Studio® project, carefully applying your creative vision for a truly unique creation. Partnering with Arktura includes early collaborative creative sessions, coordination on manufacturing, and crucial engineering aspects down to the ultimate install.

GRAPHIC PERF ®

PRESERVATION THROUGH PERFORATION

STUDIO PALI FEKETE ARCHITECTS

SILVERLAKE, CALIFORNIA, USA

COCKERHAM

In 1926, oil tycoon Edward Petitfils, in true “California Style” commissioned Wallace Neff, iconic early 20th Century Architect, to design what would become the historical Ptetfils Residence. Almost a century later, the legacy renews as its new owners request a renovation by Studio Pali Fekete Architects to modernize the home. SPFA worked with the Secretary of the Interior to preserve the historic homes’ distinctive character and maintained its landmark designation while uniting the house with modern advances, technologies, materials, and insight. Arktura manufactured the Exterior Graphic Perf® screen facade that was part of the new additions in the preservation efforts. In support of the preservation, the perforation pattern mimics the “original home’s precast concrete window grilles.” The perforated bronze anodized aluminum panels open and close on hinges, providing the homeworner with clear views, intimate privacy, and sun-shielding options. Now named the Morgan Phoa Library & Residence, the project has garnered awards in preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse for SPFA.

CARPENTER SELLERS DEL GATTO ARCHITECTS

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA

UNLV

Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects designed the new Hospitality Hall of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. Arktura worked with Del Gatto to develop the Secare® facade, to add texture that is visible from both outside and inside the structure, creating an impressive visual feature. Del Gatto strived to mirror the experience the students would have entering the hospitality industry as part of the UNLV’s premier program in the building’s architecture by creating a space that reflects the industry’s finest resorts. The LEED Silver Certified Hall’s glass entranec is cloaked in a Secare® facade of jagged steel tubes by Arktura. This facade contributes to the campus’s eclectic presence. Still, it exudes a visually dynamic and permanent presence while simultaneously reducing the harsh desert sun’s western exposure by up to 60% for its occupants.

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It has been the honor of my career to lead a talented team of people in designing a flagship building for my alma mater, I spent my formative years as an aspiring architect at UNLV studying the buildings on campus and never anticipated that I would have the opportunity to contribute to the campus.

- MICHAEL DEL GATTO

GRAPHIC PERF ® PHOTOREAL

A CANVAS FOR INNOVATION

Thanks to innovative proprietary software and advanced machinery, Arktura can interpret any image into a pattern of holes, sized and dispersed to reproduce your image with exact gradations of light and dark.

ADRIAN GAUS ARCHITECTS

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA

SANTA MONICA BEACH FACILITIES

Adrian Gaus and Arktura collaborated within Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to develop a series of Exterior Graphic Perf® Photorealistic perforated raw finished metal screens with powder-coated backers to provide both privacy and protection to visitors of Santa Monica Beach’s restroom facilities. This vibrant wayfinding art installation provides distinct imagery at each facility, representing various scenes, and is identified with corresponding street names to help seaside visitors navigate the area.

CUSTOM SHADE SCREEN

Carefully calibrated cutouts create a stunning image while allowing airflow and natural sunlight without most of the heat.

SECTA

Southeast Career Technical Academy, a magnet public high school in Nevada, required a facade to protect its students and its building from the Las Vegas heat. Simpson Coulter Studio sought out Arktura to design an exterior system that would provide sun-shielding and evoke pride by incorporating the school mascot’s image - the roadrunner - and signage for SECTA’s campus. The stunning rendition of the imagery was made possible by Arktura’s Graphic Perf®, which uses proprietary software to render tonal variations in perforated panels. The resulting exterior mimics higher-educational campuses and provides ample natural light within its learning spaces.

SIMPSON COULTER STUDIO HENDERSON, NEVADA, USA

LULULEMON ATHLETICA + QUADRANGLE ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

LULULEMON

This Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood Lululemon location prominently features a Solutions Studio® custom exterior facade, designed and manufactured by Arktura, in collaboration with Lululemon. This unique shell wraps aroun the storefront and incorporates both hard geometric lines and a subtle organic mountainscape silhouette. Entering the store’s 2,700-squarefoot Quadrangle Architects’ designed shopping space, you’ll find Arktura’s Atmosphera® Pulse ceiling modules suspended above areas, including the cashier counter, which are seamlessly integrated with lighting elements of the space. The realized design affords a clear exterior brand identity and acoustic attenuation of the interior.

CREATING A BRAND IDENTITY

Solutions Studio® brings out the best of Arktura, working hard to incorporate your brand into the final design and fully realizing your vision. Put your brand identity front and center with the innovative solutions of our custom-made creations.

CANOPIES

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

UNIQUE CANOPIES

GREAT PARK

Together with NBBJ Los Angeles and Plas-Tal, Arktura designed and fabricated multiple expansive canopies for the 688 acre parkland’s championship sports stadiums and support buildings, delivering shade to spectators, while providing a high level of design sophistication to the public development, one of the largest of its kind in the country.

NBBJ IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA

GRAPHITE DESIGN GROUP SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

AMAZON BLOCK 21

Arktura, in collaboration with Graphite Design and Tbar Construction, employed innovative, thoughtful approaches to design, manufacturing, and installation to make this unique custom ceiling system in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington a reality. The feature ceiling serves as the key welcoming attraction to a massive new two-story-high tech company campus finalized in 2019. Extending approximately 8,600 square feet of interior and exterior areas, this custom ceiling takes its cues from nature, with a design directly inpired by the swarming flight patterns of birds. These murmurations were translated into nearly 3,500 “Pixels,” elegant powder-coated aluminum subpanels that use only bent angles and underlying color gradations to evoke a dynamic feeling of movement through a static system. Pixels modularly connect to larger torsion panels, some hoisted several stories high. Enhancing both the visual richness and complexity of execution of the ceiling are the system’s integrated lights. These add to the ceiling’s dynamic feelings of movement in the nighttime, accentuating the angles of Pixels and colors of their underlying panels, and adding a layer of depth to the entire system, through their interplay of light and shadow. the end result is a unique experience that reinterprets Pacific Northwestern fondness of nature through an innovative, tech inspired lens.

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

DIGITIZED MURMURATIONS

From brand identity to local history, nature, and culture, our Solutions Studio® is ready to integrate the proper elements for your next facade or rain shield.

GENSLER

DALLAS, TEXAS, USA

AT&T

AT&T’s transformation of their campus in Dallas, Texas was intended to create a place of community, both for its employees and the community at large. Gensler designed a dynamic entrance to the office with a backlit canopy that extends over the sidewalk. A custom Delta Drop® with subtler faceting and custom perofrations bring a sense of movement to the canopy, leading people inside.

DELTA DROP ® CUSTOM

DYNAMIC LIGHTING

A slight facet on these custom aluminum panels creates a multi-dimensional exterior, featuring motion-filled perforations with integrated Arktura backlighting. Solutions Studio® can customize your next project based on existing standard products.

IWAMOTO SCOTT ARCHITECTURE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

TISHMAN 160 SPEAR

Tishman Speyer commissioned Iwamoto Scott Architecture to redesign the main entrance, lobby, and plaza of 160 Spear. This intent included a geometric canopy that made an inviting plaza while also providing shelter from rain and sun. In addition, architects wanted to carry the hour-glassshaped faceted interior lobby to the exterior. They enlisted the help of Arktura’s Solutions Studio® Team to bring their intent to reality. The resulting combination of Fin, Cladding, and Faceted Panels combined to create a monolithic field uninterrupted. It breaks the exterior barrier and seamlessly flows into the dynamic lobby and plaza of 160 Spear. “

STANTEC

FLINT, MICHIGAN, USA

ELMER KNOPF LEARNING CENTER

A striking entrance for the Elmer Knopf Learning Center in Flint, Michigan, was created with Vapor® Pixel, backlit for dramatic impact day and night. Arktura worked in tandem with Stantec to propose the illuminated entrance for the Genesee ISD - Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center, a center-based school for students from a collective of 21 districts in Genesee County identified as Moderately Cognitively Impaired and Autistic. The final design features Arktura’s cutting edge Vapor® Pixel in a glimmering effect and serves to inspire and empower students as they enter their community.

DELTA DROP ® & VAPOR ®

INNOVATIVE FIRST IMPRESSION

GENSLER BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA

25 KENT

25 Kent is a new office building that was developed through a partnership between Gensler and Hollwich Kushner as a hub of innovation and creativity. Designed as two volumes that are reflections of each other with a plaza cutting a void through the middle, Arktura provided a custom size and finish Delta Drop® and custom finish of Vapor® panels to clad the outdoor plaza, adding to the industrial feeling of the building.

A WELCOMING ADMISSIONS CENTER

Arktura partnered with architects Amenta|Emma to create a bright and visually distinct focal feature for Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. Additionally, this canopy enhances the safety and security of campus by providing better visibility at night.

Amenta | Emma Architects Hamden, CT

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY

An illuminated canopy can be a game-changer for any commercial space, including higher education campuses. This shining display creates a striking visual curb appeal and provides students, educators, and visitors alike with a bright and welcoming environment. This project features the linear design of Vapor® Frequency panels paired with optional Backlighting.

ART & LANDSCAPES

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

DYNAMIC DICHROIC GLASS SCULPTURAL WALL

Not limited in scope to our existing products, Solutions Studio® is capable of creating unique designs in collaboration with you from concept to reality.

REFIK ANADOL CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA,

USA

CULVER CITY GARAGE

Inspired by the punch cards of the 80s, Refik Anadol designed a facade that follows the patterns of those punch cards. He was also inspired by the project’s namesake, cirrostratus clouds and the colors of the light reflected off of them. The reflections and refractions of the facade mimic the Southern Californian sky.

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

DYNAMIC VISUAL EXPERIENCE

HH SCULPTURE

Nembi (Italian for Clouds) is a permanent public art installation commissioned by Los Angeles County and produced in a collaboration between Solutions Studio® and Elena Manferdini. The installation’s playful composition and striking colors enter into dialog with the iconic green bands of the Hubert Humphrey Health Center’s facade. Made entirely of powder-coated aluminum, each panel is saturated in durable color that can withstand tactile interaction while providing a dynamic visual experience at the threshold of the building.

ATELIER MANFERDINI

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

LEHRER ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

UCLA FENCE

Arktura created the guardrail for this accessible path through UCLA’s LaKretz Garden Pavilion. A custom project from Solutions Studio® featuring the precise perforations of Graphic Perf®. The panels are made of faceted and perforated aluminum that creates an interplay with light and shadow throughout the day.

GRAPHIC PERF ®

A GUIDING VISION

Fully unlock the potential of the precisely machined perforations of Graphic Perf® in the hands of Arktura’s Solutions Studio® team.

ED VANCE AND ASSOCIATES

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA

SYMPHONY PARK BRIDGE

Creating a pedestrian bridge that traverses a busy area of downtown Las Vegas, Arktura manufactured custom perforated panels to run the length of the pass and more— to connect the Smith Center for the Performing Arts to the rest of the area’s premier developments, Symphony Park. The project utilizes Graphic Perf® to create precise cutouts that act as a windbreak and shade for pedestrians to safely walk across 150 feet above the active rail lines below. The walkway is flanked on either side by elevators and winding staircases, also clad in the Graphic Perf® panels. The subtle gradient of the perforations allows a clear view of the scenery around the project.

SYMPHONY

GRAPHIC PERF ®

ELMER KNOPF LEARNING CENTER

LEHRER ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

WORD BENCHES

Perforated word benches at Westwood United Methodist church provide seating for visitors. These custom-made benches by Arktura’s Solutions Studio® offer both form and function, proving outdoor architectural solutions don’t stop at just exterior facades. Built-in lighting allows these messages to be seen throughout the day.

LEHRER ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

SPRING STREET

Lehrer Architects worked with city landscape architects to transform two existing parking lots into a community-focused park. Arktura collaborated with Lehrer Architects to design these embedded aluminum chairs with a perforated bamboo pattern that generates a play of light and shadow. The mechanical meets the natural world in this custom-made biophilic inspired project.

GRAPHIC PERF ®

BRINGING NATURE TO THE CITY

From small, intimate urban parks to large-scale outdoor spaces, Arktura can create an inviting openair experience, utilizing aluminum to withstand the natural elements.

SCHENKEL SHULTZ NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA

BNA SIGNATURE TERMINAL

Signature FS unveiled their new FBO terminal at Nashville International Airport, featuring numerous systems and solutions by Arktura. Travelers and pilots are greeted upon arrival with an extensive Graphic Perf® Custom Photoreal Exterior treatment, paying homage to Nashville’s iconic music legacy. The vivid illumination used in the exterior application provides a preview of Signature’s thoughtfully presented artifacts by musicians and celebrities displayed within the terminal.

GRAPHIC PERF ® PHOTOREAL

MARQUEE PRODUCTS

Create the ultimate first impression with Arktura’s Graphic Perf® aluminum paneling. From words to images, Solutions Studio’s® Photoreal process creates customized facade solutions that are true to your design intent.

WARE MALCOMB SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA

SEAVIEW

For the outdoor site renovation of Seaview Amenities, Ware Malcomb needed a firm with proven outdoor canopy experience who understood the site conditions of a coastal location with wind load considerations, had structural engineering experience, and could work in partnership with their design team. Ware Malcomb worked with Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to customize canopy structures that fit their specific design vision, inspired by Arktura’s Cora pattern.