Home Wesley Place Melbourne, VIC Architect: Cox Architects Builder: Lendlease Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: Application: Pillar Lobby Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements –
Home NV Apartments Perth, WA Architect: Scanlan Architects Builder: Probuild Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 1,200 m² Application: Facade Feature Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements –
Home Little Saigon Welcome Arch Melbourne, VIC Architect: McBride Charles Ryan Builder: MouldCAM Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: – Application: Public Artwork Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details As the centrepiece of an important civic project, the Little Saigon Welcome Arch is a majestic, fluid artwork that projects a sense of movement regardless of where it is viewed from. Manufactured from ShapeShell FreeForm, the arch maintains a feeling of lightness while benefitting from ShapeShell’s structural rigidity and wonderful materiality.
Home RMIT Penrose Building Melbourne, VIC Architect: ARM (Ashton Raggatt McDougall) Builder: ISIS Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: – Application: Building Facade Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details The Penrose Façade on top of RMIT University is often referred to as “The Green Brain” inspiring the students below to think outside of the norm. With no repetition of geometry anywhere in the façade this is ShapeShell “Freeform” at its best. Computer cut accuracy allowed complete unitisation of the façade off-site making installation quick and simple.
Home Orbis Apartment Melbourne, VIC Architect: ARM (Ashton Raggatt McDougall) Builder: LU Simon Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: – Application: Building Facade Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details This funky project turns the traditional building façade on its head and, in doing so, creates a unique series of manufacturing and construction challenges. Working with both negative and positive space, the façade projects into and out from the building structure – requiring both light weight and enormous strength. The result is an extraordinarily dramatic “deconstructed” face presented to neighbourhood.
Home Mancave Sydney, NSW Architect: AJC (Allen Jack + Cottier) Builder: MouldCAM Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: – Application: Building Artwork Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details An ambitious private commission that set out to create a unique personal space within a traditional warehouse conversion. The organic shape required millimetre precision to hide join lines and the result is an eye-catching futuristic backdrop to the industrial hardness of the surrounding space.
Home Docklands BeachBall Melbourne, VIC Architect: McBride Charles Ryan Builder: Brookfield Multiplex Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: Giant Entry Ball Application: Building Artwork Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details This unique structure is the imaginative response to the practical challenge of a high wind corridor between two apartment buildings. This unique “windbreak” was constructed of ShapeShell™-RT (Fire Retardant) as it serves as an exit point for the apartments.
Home Swanston Square Apartment Tower Melbourne, VIC Architect: ARM Architecture Builder: Probuild Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 5,500 m² Application: Facade Feature Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details No less than 411 double curved unique panels were manufactured to create the 3D portrait of Aboriginal elder William Barak as he gazes down one of the main streets of the city of Melbourne, Australia. Installed over over 35 floors, no two panel is the same, thus adding to the creativity and complexity of the project. The ShapeShell freeform “monocoque” panels needed to have depth (thickness), be solid in construction (no hollow drum sound) yet lightweight and structurally stiff to allow minimal fixing only at slab edge. The monocoque panels use structural skins to carry the load across all sides of the panel. The panels were independently tested and taken up to a load of 6.4 Kpa without any signs of damage (cosmetic or structural) nor residual deformation. The strength of the panels allowed slab edge fixing despite a considerable vertical cantilever (up to 2.5 metres).
Home Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Care Hospital Melbourne, VIC Architect: STHDI+MCR Builder: Grocon PCL Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 6,400 m² Application: Facade & Colonnade Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details For facade, we apply large span sweeping shapes wrap around the hospital creating a dramatic and futuristic effect. ShapeShell monocoque was used due to its light weight, yet stiff characteristics. Panels are fixed outside of the curtain wall and span 12 metres between fixings. For the colonnade, the highly organic shape of the ground floor colonnade, extending around the full perimeter of the hospital, was a perfect match for ShapeShell single skin as the material is able to take advantage of the natural strength of the complex curved design. A seamless monolithic look was possible thanks to highly accurate 3D digital manufacturing techniques meant minimal section joins. With its cementatious finish incorporated during manufacture, the structure has the look and feel of concrete.
Home Queens Domain Melbourne, VIC Architect: DKO Architecture Builder: Hacer Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 6,400 m² Application: Balustrade & Canopy Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details Across from Albert Park Lake and along the busy Queens Road in Melbourne, Australia, Queens Domain stands wrapped with a unique white balustrade creating a futuristic look. Doing without the heavy dead weight of concrete, the ShapeShell panel was an ideal match that offered advantages for the building as a whole such as a fast install program, fewer columns to support each floor, low post-tensioned slabs and to add an extra bonus, the building foundations were able to support another floor giving the client an ideal advantage. Not using the tower crane to install the panels allowed the builder to finish months early.
