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Balancing rustic aesthetics with engineered attachment solutions built for performance and sustainability in Colorado.
Finding a location in Black Forest, Colorado, that was suitable was no easy feat. After nearly 10 years of searching, owner Rob Haddock approached the veterinarian who owned the animal clinic that had burned to the ground during the Black Forest Fire of 2013. He sold the property to Haddock, and in 2018 an architect began the plans for the new corporate office.
In terms of aesthetics, it was a challenge to blend rustic with modern; homelike but industrial; pragmatic but functional with old country-style appointments. This was executed as a team effort, between Haddock, his wife, Robyn, and local interior designer Candace Wilcken.
The use of native timber and natural moss rock is harmonious with the rustic mountain rural and local architecture. Corten steel (sometimes known as weathered steel) also provides a rustic appearance to the building exterior. The office features a pre-painted Galvalume® Drexel Metals 24-gauge, low-gloss black PVDF standing seam roof supported by hand-peeled log trusses and was rollformed onsite using a New Tech Machinery roof panel machine.
size of office roof
size of barn roof
solar array
The site is at 7,500 feet elevation and is known for heavy snowfall, so structure and snow retention were over-designed for 40+ psf. On the south side of the office building, S-5! X-Gard 2.0 was used to accommodate the rooftop solar installation. The north office roof below the clerestory showcases S-5! DualGard. Both systems are powder-coated in black to match the roof color. The adjacent support building features S-5! ColorGard, which color-matches the deep grey of the prepainted Galvalume® roof.
The south side features a 53 kW solar array mounted with the PVKIT DirectAttach™ solar mounting solution, which will provide 84 MWh annually— and together with other energy-saving features, up to 75% of the facility’s power.
on south roof
on support barn
rail-less solar mount
“I was honored when Rob contacted me about roofing S-5!’s new office building. We have installed S-5! products on schools, retail shopping centers, mountain properties, and at 14,100 feet on the top of America’s Mountain, Pikes Peak. We trust S-5! because their products are engineered, tested and manufactured to the highest quality, and we can always trust that their systems will work as designed.
John Fleming
| President, Weathercraft Company of Colorado
