Trinka Davis Veterans Village: Copper-Clad Stainless Steel Ties Together Unique Design
When 14-year-old Katherine “Trinka” Davis first visited Pearl Harbor in 1947, the U.S Naval base still bore the scars of the Japanese attack six years earlier. Profoundly moved, Davis decided she wanted to help the nation’s war veterans. Sixty-five years later, her vision was realized with the dedication of the Trinka Davis Veterans Village: a unique, 73,900-square-foot medical complex in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in western Georgia.
Today, the Trinka Davis Veterans Village in Carrollton features a 24,000-square-foot Outpatient Clinic and a 48-bed Community Living Center. The design incorporates 30,000 square feet of CopperPlus® copper-clad stainless steel in its distinctive fascia and coping. “Solid copper was originally specified, but the metal fabricator suggested CopperPlus,” said Lauren Bowen of Peacock Partnership, the Atlanta architectural firm hired for the $16 million project. “We were happy to find a product that achieved the same look as copper at a lower cost.”