Metlox Parking Garage

Manhattan Beach, California

What was once the site of a flourishing Manhattan Beach ceramics fabricator known initially as Metlox Pottery is now a modern retail center with an underground parking garage.

Architects for the parking structure that now bears the company’s name chose ¼” Fabricoil attached to Cascade’s sturdy and reliable Secura Track for its functionality and appealing aesthetics.

Connected to what can be best described as a metal pergola above the garage escalators, Fabricoil plunges from the top level (which is in fact the street level) to the ground floor, serving as a decorative solar shading solution for pedestrians and drivers.

The drapery hangs freely – attached at its highest point only – and hovers just above the ground at its base. This manner of installation enables the metal mesh to gently sway in the wind, allows for airflow and ventilation for car fumes, and mitigates the bright California sunlight. Fabricoil’s mobility serves as a welcome contrast to the structure’s otherwise very rigid materials.

The Metlox Parking Garage also showcases Cascade Architectural’s versatility and its breadth of product offerings. Metlox displays the fabric in various widths and colors, including natural tones such as copper and silver along with pops of blue.

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exterior
Decorative, Solar Shading

Project Details

System: Secura Track
Weave: 1/4"
Finish: Various

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Fabricoil® coiled wire fabric systems: The world's premier, architectural-grade woven wire mesh—engineered and manufactured to specification exclusively by Cascade Architectural.

Cascade has proudly operated as the world's leading manufacturer of coiled wire fabric systems for interior, exterior, security, and blast protection applications since 1987. Engineered and sustainably manufactured to specification from our headquarters in the Pacific Northwest, Cascade's innovative American-made Fabricoil® woven wire mesh systems deliver unparalleled design flexibility through a comprehensive selection of materials, gauges, weave sizes, finishes, fullness options, and meticulously engineered attachment systems—inspiring architects and designers for nearly 40 years when designing many of the world's most iconic structures and interiors.

From custom building façades, exterior screens, and daylighting control systems to timelessly modern interiors, security gates, and more, there's virtually no limit to what can be achieved with Fabricoil® coiled wire fabric systems. This incredibly versatile material can be seamlessly spliced together on-site to span extreme distances with a single sheet of material, shape-cut to meet unique design requirements, and mounted in either coil direction to achieve different results, offering design possibilities that most rigid and flexible screening alternatives cannot achieve. From matte to highly reflective, flat to satin to metallic, Fabricoil coiled wire fabric is available in near limitless finish and color options through our super-durable, in-house powder-coating process—the most sustainable finish coating process available in today's market. In fact, our coiled wire fabric and standard coatings also meet stringent Living Building Challenge "Red List Free" requirements (which many similar looking or industrial-grade materials do not), making Fabricoil® an ideal contributor toward meeting the sustainability requirements and green building criteria sought by most building projects today.

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