Mountain Man
Senior Member
The black piece I see looks to be a metal spandrel panel on the window assembly, though there is the black panel in the first picture you posted yesterday that could be a hardie type material.
I walked up close to it to try and get a pic, but the scaffolding was in the way. I thought it also might be some sort of metal flashing or something....hard to say. I'm anxious to see some more material go up.The black piece I see looks to be a metal spandrel panel on the window assembly, though there is the black panel in the first picture you posted yesterday that could be a hardie type material.
I've never heard of corrugated metal as a base layer under the finish cladding. That would be extremely expensive as well.The corrugated metal is likely just a base layer, I've seen this before on other buildings most notably the Rocky Ridge YMCA, the whole building was covered in the metal before the actual spandrel was put over top. It's also green which would make no sense looking at the renders. I expect the spandrel on this building to look similar to what is on the YMCA, but white/silver-ish rather than gold.
I would say it was an opening act to allow for full building prep while the main show is in the shop for fabThey looked like a mock-up, so perhaps they are considering a cladding change or adding that as accent panels?