Panel cladding CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM

stainless steelsmoothreflective

Designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and completed in 2008, The Contemporary Jewish Museum was originally founded in 1984 in San Francisco, California with the goal of offering contemporary perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas. In June 2008, the Museum moved to the Yerba Buena Gardens district of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. The shape of this thought provoking structure is inspired and modeled off of the Hebrew script for "L'Chaim" which translates "To Life". 3,028 sheets of blue iridescent cross-fire interference stainless steel clad the surface of the museum. Zahner was responsible for the design, engineering, fabrication, and installation of the facade and total building envelope, inclusive of the metal, glass, and substrate. The project uses the Inverted Seam® Roof and Facade System, the most powerful roof and building envelope surface for water control, planar uniformity and long-term performance. Zahner engineered the skylight windows to integrate into the Inverted Seam® roof and building envelope system, inset with four-sided structural silicone glazing. The 36 custom skylights sit perfectly flush with the surface of the metal, giving the roof and siding a smooth, uniform facing.