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.
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.
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.
This Project was entered into the 2016 LSAA Design Awards (5047)
Entrant: Taylor Thomson Whitting (Engineer)
Location: 50 Martin Place, Sydney. Completed: Unknown Client: Macquarie
Team: Johnson Pilton Walker, Taylor Thomson Whitting, Brookfield Multiplex, Sharvain Pacific Steel
Application: Glazed Roof over an Atrium.
Description:
50 Martin Place was refurbished to provide a communal office from a very important heritage building. To increase light into the Atrium, the Atrium was increased in size by removing the perimeter slab, leaving the beams and columns. To provide maximum light, the roof was fabricated from glass. The final design incorporated a dome on steel trapezoid section suspending triple layer glazed panels, some of which were adjustable.
Overview of Cablenet Structures
Australia can bost a very early cable net structure in the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.
The modern cablenet structures burst on the international scene with the Expo 67 German Pavilion constructed in Montreal, Canada.
This was a larger version of the cablenet roof prototype designed by Frei Otto's team and used now to house the IL at the University of Stuggart.
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
This project was an entry in the 2016 LSAA Design Awards (0481)
Entrant: Tensys Engineers Pty Ltd (Engineer)
Location: 155 Queen St Mall, Brisbane. Completed: 2015 Client: ISPT Super Property
Team: studio 505 / JWA, Tensys Engineers, Tensys (Façade), UAP Company, Broad Construction
Application
The implementation of form and function. Creation of shade function with a sculptural form
Entry in the LSAA 2007 Design Awards (Cat 4, 4113)
Entrant: S2 Corporation
Client: Boeing Australia Limited Structural Engineer: S2 Corporation Pty Ltd
Specialist Consultant(s): Healey & Castle Associates
Fabricator(s): Casa Engineering, CAD Tech, UFS
Application and Function
S2 designed, engineered and managed the implementation of the aircraft shelter for Boeing Australia at Amberley, QLD. This roof product developed for the Aviation industry is called airspace.
The 67.5 metre x 67.5 metre shallow domed roof is anchored to the ground by just four columns and stands 14.2 metres tall.
- Perth Zoo Wetlands - New Stainless Steel Mesh Enclosure
- Sydney Wildlife World
- Surry Hills Community Centre
- Taronga Zoo Chimpanzee Enclosure
- Jagged Edge
- Big Dish Solar Concentrator
- Ronstan Cable Net Facade - Redevelopment of Whitten Oval
- Amazon Waterlily Pavilion
- Glazing and Facades Introduction
- Whitten Oval
- School of Information Technology
- Projects from 2018 Design Awards (Cat 5)
- Large Structures - 2024DA Singapore Bird Paradise
- Pitt Street Mall Catenary Lighting System
- Wintergarden Art Façade Award of Excellence
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