Queens Domain

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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.