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 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.
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 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).
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.
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 Queens Domain is a 20-storey apartment building in Melbourne. The build incorporated a ShapeShell™-RT balustrading system that swept around the entire perimeter of the building on each level and also some columns wrap and soffit units on the lower levels. ShapeShift technologies completed the design, engineering, project management, and manufacture of the elements. 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. ShapeShell-RT was chosen for this structure primarily due to the mass-savings and installation benefits it was able to present. As ShapeShift tech was engaged at an early stage, it allowed for collaboration with the structural engineers of the building and allowed the engineering to account for a light-weight slab edge treatment. In doing so, the initial slab thicknesses was reduced so much so that over the 20-storeys of the building, the building was able to house a whole additional level to remain in the height restrictions. So essentially the penthouse suite paid for the entire balustrading system. The product was also able to present significant installation benefits. Given the light-weight nature, the balustrade units were installed from the slab edge through use of a simple 500kg winch system. This saved on time and cost.
Home Royal Randwick Racecourse Randwick, NSW Architect: Fitzpatrick+Partners Builder: AW Edwards Product: ShapeShell™-RT Area: 5,500 plate disc Application: Facade Feature Responsibility: Design, Engineer & Manufacture of Feature Elements Details This facade features 5,500 ShapeShell™-RT (Glassfibre Reinforced Thermoset) discs arranged in a pattern across the building, creating a stunning effect of a sea of ‘Coins’ overlooking the track at Randwick Racecourse. Originally specified in concrete, the client faced a dilemma of how to support such a weight from the car park’s structure. ShapeShift’s advanced ShapeShell™-RT material made the project possible. It weighs less than half of a concrete equivalent while delivering a superior and consistent finish. This project also showcases ShapeShift’s design and project management expertise, with ShapeShift delivering not only the façade panels but also the structural steel sub-frame, all preassembled off-site.
