The Delegation’s custom Jari screens – Global supplier search results in pieces to be proud of

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This project, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, is the world’s first building representing the Aga Khan Development Network (which supports social, economic and cultural projects in developing countries). delegation-ottawa-citizen

Specifically CAF was called upon to create 180 highly intricate panels – that when joined form the aluminum screen that today encloses the 55-foot-high atrium, located just beneath the dome at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat. These cast aluminum screens partially obscure the glass walls with their Arabesque-type pattern, a double layer of repeating hexagons. This screen of patterned cast aluminum evokes the screens of carved marble and wood that filter light in historic Islamic architecture.

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