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Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House

Home Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW Architect: ARM Architecture Builder: Waagner Biro Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 18 Acoustic Reflectors Application: Special Building Feature Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall underwent a significant renovation in 2022, aimed at enhancing its acoustics, accessibility, and stage functionality while preserving its iconic status. The project included the replacement of outdated acoustic features with 18 state-of-the-art sound reflectors, designed to optimise sound quality for a variety of performances. This unique structure functions as an acoustic reflector. Made from composite fiberglass, the petals can be positioned to reflect sounds to pre-determined areas of the venue as well as adapt to different types of performance. Designed by ARM Architecture in conjunction with highly experienced German acousticians Müller BBM. The large audience reflectors weigh approx. 160kgs while the smaller orchestra petals weigh approx. 80kgs. This acoustic reflectors above the stage have replaced the old clear acrylic ‘donuts’. These ‘acoustic petals’ are set in a range of different positions, depending on the music being played. They have been finished in a semi-gloss magenta – matching the colour of the Concert Hall seats chosen by architect Peter Hall. ShapeShift Technologies played a pivotal role in this upgrade by supplying customised ShapeShell™ RT sound deflectors, engineered to deflect and diffuse sound waves for balanced acoustics. These advanced fibre-reinforced panels, often referred to as surfboard-shaped due to their unique design, were meticulously crafted to integrate seamlessly with the architectural aesthetic of the hall. The installation of these deflectors not only enhanced the auditory experience but also maintained the structural and visual harmony of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed building.

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Ricky Ramadhan 28/10/2024
Wesley Place

Wesley Place

Home Wesley Place Melbourne, VIC Architect: Cox Architects Builder: Lendlease Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: Application: Pillar Lobby Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements –

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
NV Apartments

NV Apartments

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 –

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
Little Saigon Welcome Arch

Little Saigon Welcome Arch

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 The Little Saigon Welcome Arch was developed by MCR as an entranceway to a culturally Vietnamese district in Melbourne. The structure consists of a pair of Vietnamese Lac Bird sculptures. The birds are approximately 9m high and cantilever over the road 5m each. The birds were made of a glass-carbon hybrid composite material, fixed into precast plinths. ShapeShift were involved in the design, engineering, documentation, certification and installation of the structure. This project was initially specified as a clad steel structure by Bollinger + Grohmann. ShapeShift tech. presented an elegant solution using ShapeShell-RT for the structure that added significant economic and quality benefits to the structure and hence we were awarded the contract. ShapeShift Technologies completed a detailed structural engineering report with supplementary documentation to certify the complex structure. The installation was also completed with ShapeShift’s scope. Given the complexity of the surface finish, the structure was painted on-site and all joints were faired to provide a seamless finish to the sculpture.

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
RMIT Penrose Building

RMIT Penrose Building

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.

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
Orbis Apartment

Orbis Apartment

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.

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
Mancave

Mancave

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.

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
Docklands BeachBall

Docklands BeachBall

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.

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Ricky Ramadhan 26/10/2024
Barak Facade at Swanston Square Apartment Tower

Swanston Square Apartment Tower

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 William Barak, was the last traditional ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, first inhabitants of present-day Melbourne, Australia. ARM Architecture wanted to produce a façade of Barak’s portrait in recognition of the history and presence of Aboriginal nations on the land where Melbourne now stands. ARM reduced a photo to a binary black-and-white image. It then turned the image into horizontal bands of black and white varying in vertical thickness. This was transformed into 3D CAD. 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).

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Ricky Ramadhan 25/10/2024
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Care Hospital

Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Care Hospital

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 ShapeShift technologies was involved in the design, engineering, project management and on-site installation works of the 4800m2 façade for the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. The project incorporated two separate areas, the lower organic colonnade and the upper sweeping veins up the building. This complex project required collaboration with multiple trades and stakeholders to make it successful. In order to deliver the project, ShapeShift Technologies was required to collaborate closely with the glazing consultants and manufacturers in order to integrate the required bracketry to fix the panels to the building. 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.

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Ricky Ramadhan 25/10/2024