Skip to main content

ShapeShell FreeForm at Little Saigon Welcome Arch

Footscray is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne and home to a large concentration of the city's Vietnamese population.
Challenge
With its unique form the Welcome Arch should become representative of the story of Vietnamese settlement in Footscray, adding to its renown, and attracting visitors to the precinct; featuring a pair of giant cranes alongside other motifs that resonate with Vietnamese culture.
ShapeShell FreeForm at Little Saigon Welcome Arch
Solution
Manufactured from ShapeShell FreeForm, the arch maintains a feeling of lightness while benefitting from ShapeShell's structural rigidity and wonderful materiality, as it uses fluoropolymer technology in both the top layer of the product and through the underlying matrix to provide a base colour which assists in reducing the visibility of scratches.
As the centrepiece of an important civic project, the Little Saigon Welcome Arch in Leeds St., Footscray is a unique, fluid artwork that projects a sense of movement regardless of where it is viewed from. Lightweight, stiff structures built to the highest level of accuracy allows maximum off-site manufacturing. Elements from ShapeShell come to site in sections up to 12m in length. Light weight means easy and safe handling.
ShapeShell FreeForm at Little Saigon Welcome Arch

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ZUO Studio Uses All Bamboo Species Of Taiwan For This Seed-Looking Pavilion In Taichung City

Taiwanese architecture firm  ZUO Studio  has designed this pavilion by using all bamboo species of Taiwan that can be found in Taichung City. Named Bamboo Pavilion, the architects mixed all constructional techniques in dimension and weaving to give the pavilion a sense of timeless space that reflects consistency. Situated on a river in the fourth area of Fengyuan Huludun Park, the pavilion, covering a 1,570-square-metre area, has been designed as an exhibition hall sponsored by Taichung Real Estate Development Association. "Since the association is mostly composed by the greatest building construction companies, our main goal was how to combine their pure spirit with Flora Exposition, including care for physical and mental health, the devotedness in social benefit, and engineering method, with the strength and feature of the green building materials from Taiwan," said the architects. Since the architects are much more interested in the use of different construc...
Post a Comment
Read more

Japanese house by Kouichi Kimura includes white-tiled courtyard for yoga

A chimney-like tower covered in white tiles rises in the courtyard of this house in Shiga,  Japan , which architect  Kouichi Kimura  has designed for the owner to host yoga classes. Located away from a busy main road, the two-storey residence combines a large block with a smaller one that appears to be slotted on top. There are no windows on the street-facing walls to offer plenty of privacy from passerbys. The only opening is the front door of the house, which provides a view straight through to the courtyard. Kouichi Kimura of Japanese studio  Form  designed the ground floor of the 112-square-metre house as the primary space for the resident to teach the meditative practice of yoga. The living room and the L-shaped courtyard arranged around it are linked by pair of sliding glass doors. They can be opened fully to provide one space, or closed to create separate areas. "Linkage between exterior and interior s...
Post a Comment
Read more

Ryo Kan hotel blends Mexican materials and Japanese traditions

Guests at this  hotel  in  Mexico City , designed by local architect Regina Galvanduque, can bathe in rooftop jacuzzis, drink tea on tatami mats or find zen in its courtyard garden. Galvanduque, who runs  GLVDK Studio , designed the  Ryo Kan  hotel for slender plot on Rio Panuco in the city's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood. The surrounding area has become known as Little Tokyo, making it particularly apt for the hotel, which is intended as a fusion of "Japanese and Mexican identity and values". The hotel is named after "ryokan" – a traditional Japanese inn – and follows the country's hospitality approach as Omotenashi. As a result, many features of Galvanduque's design take cues from Japanese culture, liked the striated white facade of the building based on origami paper folds. Accommodation is arranged around a slender courtyard outfitted like a Japanese garden. A glazed roof tops the space to provide plenty of natural light to stone benches ...
Post a Comment
Read more