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The LSAA committee has spotted two LSAA member projects in the shortlist of the World Architectural Festival 2018. Congratulations to your respective architects and the LSAA members that have contributed to the project’s success. Please let me know if I have missed a project. #WAF18
http://fabritecture.com/project/westfield-chermside-urchin/
https://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/
Shopping Completed Buildings: Westfield Chermside Outdoor Dining and Leisure Precinct
- Architects: Scentre Group Design / Urbis / Armada Australia
- Fabrication & Construction: Fabritecture - Custom Fabric Architecture
- Structural Design: Wade Design Engineers
Sport Completed Buildings: Optus Stadium, Perth, Australia
- Architects: HASSELL COX HKS
- Structural Design: Arup
- Fabric Design and Install: MakMax Australia Tensile Membrane Specialists
There has been a number of curved and interesting footbridges built recently here in Melbourne. See these pics:
The last of these bridges is curved and the load carrying deck (pedestrians and bicycles) creates significant torsion on the main support spine.
This bridge won a LSAA Design Award in 2016.
However, up in Vietnam, a new elevated footbridge in a heavy tourist region has some big hands appearing to support the bridge.
Check it out at this link!!
Credit to "Designboom.com"
Lightweight Structures such as cablenets and tensioned fabric structures often exhibit relatively large deformations under changing loads.
Rock climbers will rely on the extension characteristics of their ropes to cushion any fall to a deceleration that the body can withstand.
However the following link points to an extreme case of an engineered net to safely catch a dear-devil sky diver from a 7600m free fall without a parachute.
A parachute is also an example of a tensioned fabric structure which adopts a geometric form in response to applied loads (person plus air resistance).
See: https://www.createdigital.org.au/extreme-engineering-luke-aikins-skydive/ where the source of this image is acknowledged.
Project Highlight: Opening of HOTA (Home of the Arts) at the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct
LSAA Member Contributors: Structural Engineer - Arup, Fabric Supply and Installation - Fabritecture, Fabric Design - Wade Design Engineers
Designers: ARM architecture and Topotek1
Above image by Andrew Lane - see here
For more photos refer to:
http://fabritecture.com/project/gccp/
Also to an article HERE
Bunjil Place has opened!
This exciting new facility is designed as a cultural hub for the Narre Warren area in Melbourne’s east, and its opening weekend was celebrated with two full days of exhibitions and performances for the community.
Centralised from our Melbourne office, LSAA Member TTW’s team contributed
structural, civil and façade engineering services and worked closely with FJMT Studio and Multiplex to bring this striking multi-functional building to life.
The building's dominant feature is the timber gridshell, the first of its kind in Australia.
Congratulations to all involved in this exciting project!
http://www.ttw.com.au/
