Short articles, YouTube videos, blogs or posts found on the internet or posted on the LSAA Facebook page. (in random order)
If any LSAA member has an article or notices something of interest they could email a link and/or text to blogger @ LSAA.org (no spaces)
Tensinet, our European equivalent, publishes a newsletter twice a year. Even if you are not a member there are a few articles that they share as a teaser
An experimental temporary structure "TemporActive" was constructed as part of Tensinet's latest symposium in Italy. A single skin form with cable stiffended ribs.
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"
"Enter at your own Risk," a trafficable sticky tape sculpture spanning between the walls and the ceiling at the Des Moines Art Centre, USA.
Other guidelines include:
- max 5 people at a time
- no standing, running or jumping
- wear sox etc ...
Scattered domes, in a beer garden, to warm up in on a beautifully sunny winters day. Darling harbour, Sydney
The Centaur Pod is the result of a research project between Arup and UNSW. It is a kinematic folded plate structure that defines an internal space such as a meeting room and can change form based on the changing environment or need. The mechanism is powered pneumatically.
I recently had a short trip down to Melbourne and took a few pictures of the Arts Centre Spire which was constructed in the late 1970s.
Conceptually, the spire is a sculpture which was intended to indicate the location of something special located under the tall, tapering open lattice structure.
The "upper spire" is from bolted steel tubes with a geometry utilizing tetrahedrons so as to reduce the number of members meeting at a joint. Four joints are at each higher level and these four are rotated by 45 degrees in plan from those at the adjacent levels.
The Jewel in Singapore is the latest extension to Changi Airport and is opening soon on April the 17th. Definitely recommend for you next stop over
WATCH: Some of the highlights at Jewel Changi Airport, which opens next month. Checking it out?
North Queensland Stadium construction progress, Townsville. From the video you can see what a great location it is relative the city centre.
What an iconic venue in the Kings Domain in Melbourne! And Happy 60th Birthday!! WOW
This is a unique tensile cablenet structure was designed by Barry Patten of the Architectural firm Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffiths and Simpson. Engineering was done by Irwin Johnstone.
A tower that used the drying process of timber to make the structure self twist
A BBC article on current and future thinking in robotic construction and construction monitoring
A few lightweight structures here with some that appear that they may need a bit more engineering input. Looks great
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