Very lightweight highly curved forms may be used to create exciting geometric forms to fill a void.
There will be no external environmental loads from wind, rain or snow but a small degree of prestress and accurate patterning are required.
Lightweight geometric forms filling an internal space generally with no applied environmental loads - from wind, rain or snow - but usually a small amount of prestress.
This project was entered in the 2013 LSAA Design Awards (Cat 1, 1567)
Entrant: LAVA
Location: Casula Powerhouse, Casula NSW
Client: Object Gallery
Completion Date: July 2013
APPLICATION OF PROJECT:
Cloud City: An urban ecosystem is a sculptural rendition of Chris Bosse’s vision of a future city - a soaring, stretched membrane cloud anchored to the ‘city’ on the gallery floor by high-rise towers that have been re-skinned and revitalised. A series of large circular forms, doubly curved, is made of stretchy lycra.
The installation is part of a nation-wide exhibition by 12 Australian designers that explores the potential of design in our lives and generates ideas that could ‘change the way we inhabit the world’.
Project entered in the LSAA 2016 Design Awards (Cat 7, 4772)
Tarek Automated Retractable Umbrellas
Entrant: MakMax Australia (Engineer, Fabricator, Installer)
Location: Al Sadd Doho, Qatar. Completed: February 2016 Client: Taiyo Middle East
Team: Peter Kamols, Robert McDonald, Mike Lester MakMax Australia
Application Shade structures for an Educational Facility
Entry in the LSAA 2007 Design Awards (4002) Project Category "Internal and Sculptures"
Entrant: Taiyo Membrane Corp (MakMax)
Location: Essen, Germany. Completed August 2006
Client: Chris Bosse Architect: Taiyo Membrane Corp & Chris Bosse
Structural Engineer: Xiang Du (TMC) Fabricator(s): Taiyo Membrane Corp
Application and Function:
The design was created for the Zeche Zollverein ENTRY 2006 exhibition. The structure reflects the natural curves of bubbles and organic cells and translates these into a 3 dimensional space.
Entry in the LSAA 2007 Design Awards (Cat 4, 4022) "Internal and Sculptures"
Entrant: Structurflex Ltd
Client: Vector Arena Architect: Peddle Thorpe Architects
Structural Engineer: Compusoft Engineering Auckland Fabricator(s): Structurflex Ltd
Application and Function
Design and build a unique light cover for the atrium lights at the new Vector Arena in Auckland. The basis of the design is the waka (canoe).
Entrant: MakMax Australia – Designer
Location: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre – Melbourne
Client: The Australian Institute of Architects
Architect: LAVA
Struct. Eng.: MakMax Australia
Others: MakMax (Installation)
Fabricator: MakMax Australia
This project was entered in the LSAA 2009 Design Awards
Category 4 (4931) Category Internal and Sculptures
No further details have been entered at this stage.
Entered in the LSAA 2016 Design Awards (Cat 6, 6425)
Entrant: John Wardle Architects (Architect / Designer)
Location: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Completed: 15 September 2015
Client: National Gallery of Victoria
Team: Matthew van Kooy, John Bahoric, Electrolight (lighting), 3D Structural Solutions (Shop Drawings), Light Project, Engineering Directions
Application
This outdoor installation is a steel structure with a canopy of brightly coloured polypropylene ‘blossoms’. It was a site for performance, retreat and reflection in the garden of the Gallery over Spring and Summer 2015/16. The grid shell structure spans 21 meters and stands 7.5 meters tall, the shading system involves 1650 die cut, hand folded pink, purple and orange polypropylene shade elements and utilized 6600 eyelets and 3300 laser cut cleats. The installation gave the gallery the chance to extend its offering and provide a buffer between the formal gallery and the outdoor spaces.
Entrant: MakMax Australia – Designer
Location: 31 Alfred Street - Sydney NSW 2000 Client: City of Sydney
Architect: LAVA (Laboratory of Visionary Architecture) Struct. Eng.: MakMax Australia
Others: MakMax (Installation) Fabricator: MakMax Australia
This project was entered in the LSAA 2009 Design Awards (Cat 4, 4898)
No further details have been entered at this stage.
Project Entered in the LSAA 2016 Design Awards (Internal Structures, #74)
Entrant: GeoMetal Limited (Design & Engineering)
Location: Nonthaburi, Thailand. Completed: 24 August 2014 Client: Central Pattana Public Company Limited
Team: MAAR, Fastech Company Limited, Project Planing Public Company Limited, Power Line Engineering Public Company Limited
Application: A ceiling for a Shopping Mall in Thailand
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