Application: Zoo Enclosure for Sumatran Tigers.
This project was entered in the LSAA 2018 Design Awards (Cablenets, 4100)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Sumatran Tiger Enclosure at Taronga Zoo consists of three separate enclosures.
Enclosure 1 and 3 are free form tensile roof canopies constructed from X-Tend Mesh. X-Tend Mesh effectively acts as a tensioned cable net structure.
The mesh is tied to catenary cable boundaries connected to masts with tieback cables and is pushed / pulled up with 4 flying masts in each enclosure. The flying masts are supported on a structural cable net that is attached to a large central mast and tied back to the perimeter masts structures.
2022 LSAA DESIGN AWARDS ENTRY #0625 Singapore Bird Paradise
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PE 0625
ENTRY CATEGORY (1-8) ALTERNATE CATEGORY (1-8)
PROJECT SIZE 5 Aviaries and 1 amphitheare (100,000 sqm) + 3,000 sqm
ENTRANT ROLE Designer/Engineer
PROJECT NAME: Singapore Bird Paradise
APPLICATION OF PROJECT:
In 2016, it was announced that Jurong Bird Park will be moved to a larger park at Mandai Lake Road. This move was part to consolidate the park with 3 other wildlife parks and a new Rainforest Park creating the Mandai Wildlife Reservice. The new Park Bird Paradise was opened in May 8 2023
DESIGN / FABRICATION / INSTALLATION BRIEF
The project was to create a series of avairies using a cable net and stainless steel mesh that will not only house the wildife and conservation purposes but also provide a unique environment whereby patrons can traverse within the habitat (along elevated walkways) and learn about the wildlife (within various pods) and be at one with nature (at the tree tops)
Ronstan Ribbons of Light
Ronstan Tensile Architecture provides full-service engineering, design assistance, and installation services for an innovative catenary lighting system that spirals through the Watergardens Town Centre in Taylor Lakes, Victoria.
Watergardens Town Centre is a 56 hectare community hub that offers shopping, dining, entertainment, hospitality, and other business services. The area has been a vibrant and growing part of Taylor Lakes township since its 1997 opening, attracting droves of visitors to its 200+ specialty stores and community events.
Recently, the Centre has expanded to include a dining-focused "eat street" called Station Streat, which is now outfitted with a custom Ronstan catenary lighting system. This system, designed by Electrolight and Ronstan, stylishly assists in making the area functional after dark without being obstructive to walking paths. More importantly, the system creates a spectacular entry statement with its unconventional 3-D "ribbon like" design that speaks to the geometric language of the Centre's existing graphic motif.
Projects from 2018 LSAA Design Awards - Category 5 Facades
Category 5 "Glazing and Facades"
5431 RNA Brisbane Large Animal Pavillion.
Project Entered in the LSAA 2009 Design Awards (42087)
Entrant: Aurecon - Sydney – Designer
Location: 405 Crown Street - Surry Hills NSW 2010 Client: Austress Freyssinet
Architect: FJMT Struct. Eng.: Aurecon - Facade Engineer
Concept Design: Taylor Thomson Whitting Builder: Austress Freyssinet / Probuild
Application: Library and neighbourhood centre with structural glass bio-filter atrium.
Entered into the LSAA 2007 Design Awards (3837) Project Category Cablenets
Entrant: UFS Australasia Pty Ltd
Client: Sydney Attractions Group
Architect: Misho & Associates/ RIHS Architects – Misho & Gerry Rihs
Structural Engineer: Fabric: Wade Consulting - Joseph Dean,
Steel: S2 Corporation Murray Allen Fabricator(s): Fabric Shelter Systems Graham Griffin
Application and Function:
Located on the eastern side of Darling Harbour the recently opened Sydney Wildlife World adds an iconic landmark to the Darling Harbour foreshore. The urban zoo is an extension to the facilities at the Sydney Aquarium. The wildlife park has been created to accommodate Australian wildlife in as natural an environment as possible to give short stay Sydney visitors exposure to the unique Australian fauna and floor.
LSAA Design Awards 2009 Entry
Entrant: Taylor Thomson Whitting - Designer
Location: Surry Hills NSW
Client: City of Sydney Council
Architect: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Struct. Eng.: Taylor Thomson Whitting
Specialist: Mech Eng: Steenson Varming
Others: Austress
Builder: WBHO Probuild
No further details of this project have been entered. Project Category - Glazing
APPLICATION OF PROJECT:
Playground Shade Structures
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Situated in East Perth, Wellington Square is one of the largest parks within the City of Perth and the star attraction is certainly the 3000m2 intergenerational playground Koolangka Koolangka Waabiny, one of the biggest playgrounds in greater Perth consisting of nature play, a skate park, parkour activities, a flying fox, embankment slides, a pump track, waterplay and climbing towers, as well as basketball courts. Large areas of the playground are covered by 3 large bespoke shade structures.
These shade structures consist of cantilever steelwork posts (by others) supporting complex hypar shaped sails constructed from Carl Stahl X-Tend Mesh with Ronstan cable borders. Decorative aluminium and perspex discs attached to the mesh with bespoke Ronstan clips to provide the shading effect.
This project was entered in the 2013 LSAA Design Awards (Cat 5, #5202)
PROJECT APPLICATION AND DESCRIPTION: Light weight structure used to control interior environment
Aluminium tube sun shade screen designed by Fitzpatrick & Partners to control interior environment and to add to overall aesthetic impact of building.
Structural Dynamics Australia contracted by Colt International (sun shade fabricator and installer) to help design, supply and install stainless steel cable system to structurally support this element.
- 50 Martin Place - Glass Roof
- Wintergarden Art Façade Award of Excellence
- School of Information Technology
- Taronga Zoo Chimpanzee Enclosure
- Jagged Edge
- Whitten Oval
- Amazon Waterlily Pavilion
- Airspace Hangar at Amberley
- Ronstan Cable Net Facade - Redevelopment of Whitten Oval
- Cable Net Structures Introduction
- 155 Queen Street Mall Façade
- Perth Zoo Wetlands - New Stainless Steel Mesh Enclosure
- Pitt Street Mall Catenary Lighting System
- Big Dish Solar Concentrator
- Glazing and Facades Introduction
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