Planted Berm Skylight

Caliper Studio designed, detailed and installed these steel and glass skylights. In addition to the steelwork, Caliper also worked closely with Riverside Builders to ensure that the sprayed concrete shell construction would meet the exacting tolerance of the skylights. To that end, Caliper Studio provided an accurate 3D model that was used directly for CNC milling of the formwork. Automated drawing procedures developed in-house also aided the fabrication of the complex system of steel reinforcing buried in the concrete.

The Planted Berm Skylights are a feature element of the Artist Residence and Studio designed by Caliper Architecture.

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In addition to fabricating the steel portions of the skylights, Caliper Studio acted as fabrication consultant. To facilitate the fabrication and laying out of reinforcing steel, a custom-coded script was written to automatically generate dimensional drawings.

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CNC-milled formwork used to make one-seventh scale mockups.

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One-seventh scale mockups used to test material effects of skylight surface.

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CNC-routed foam formwork was cut directly from files produced by Caliper Studio.

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Steel skylight shop drawing.

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Steel skylight shop drawing.

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Steel skylight shop drawing.

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Steel skylight shop drawing.

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Photo by Ty Cole.

Caliper Studio

Photo by Ty Cole.

Caliper Studio

Photo by Ty Cole.

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Translucent Pivot Doors in open position.
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Photo by Scott Larsen.
Facade of Nitehawk Cinema and Apartments, designed by Caliper Studio.
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Photo by Ty Cole.
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Doors in action.
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