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Trifolium Pavilion in Sydney
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Trifolium Pavilion Sydney
Architect: AR-MA
Location: Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia
Trifolium Pavilion
images : Brett Boardman
AR-MA’s pavilion Trifolium (2014), designed and built for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s (SCAF) annual competition Fugitive Structures, uses advanced computer design technologies to fulfil a research-oriented brief. SCAF’s intent in driving the four-year, annually run pavilion competition, is to progress the integration of complex technologies, material or otherwise, in built structures. One amongst many entries, AR-MA was able to secure the commission through its dedication to progressive architectural methodologies and materials research.
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AR-MA’s answer to the brief was a three-leaved structure featuring a thermally-formed and robotically-trimmed, self-supporting Corian exterior envelope with 152 black, mirror-polished Rimex interior panels. The two surfaces were connected with 452 unique stainless steel brackets, each fabricated to be self-jigging during the welding process.
image : AR-MA
Conceived as a fluid, continuous event space, the internal space of the pavilion has the flexibility to be used as a meeting place or an auditorium, whilst the three leaves divide the external courtyard into a series of smaller, more intimate spaces. The reflectivity of the interior surfaces provides the connection between inside and out, reflecting the surrounding courtyard in a myriad of views.
The position-sensitive play of light and image creates an affective relationship between the viewer and the pavilion, exaggerated as the sun sets and the 42 fibre-optic lights cast into concrete pavers reflect infinitely around the interior.
images : Brett Boardman
To execute a pavilion of such geometric and material complexity, AR-MA developed a series of custom scripts, plug-ins, and stand-alone programs to aid in modelling the structure. This is a feature of the project common to all of AR-MA’s output. This software integrated geometric concerns with material and structural constraints to produce the form of the pavilion, and was ultimately linked to computer-controlled fabrication.
image : Brett Boardman
Fabrication of the pavilion took three months, and included digitally-integrated processes such as CNC-routing, laser-cutting, and thermo-forming. With over three-thousand unique pieces, the project became a logistical one of getting the right component to the right place at the right time.
images : Brett Boardman
Trifolium Pavilion – Building Information
Design Team: Robert Beson, Gabriele Ulacco, Tony Ho, Guido Maciocci, Nono Martinez Alonso, Simon Vorhammer
Collaborators: Fabrication: Terry TIsdale, OX Engineering
Structure: Alex Edwards, ARUP
Lighting: Tim Carr, ARUP
Planning: URBIS
Landscaping: 360 degree
Architects: BVN Donovan Hill
Design time: 5 months
Construction time: 3 months
Project size: 60 sqm
Completion date: Mar 2014
image : Brett Boardman
Photo Credits: Brett Boardman and AR-MA
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