Corporation & Office

Premium office space with an elliptical plan and raked roof plane

Brief

Project Details

Project reference
85 Castlereagh St, Sydney
Builder
Westfield D & CArchitect
John Wardle Architects
Scope
Custom Asymmetric Fabric Blinds
Custom Venetian Blinds
LONWorks Control System
Size
32 Floors

Challenge

This Skyscraper located in Sydney’s CBD consists of thirty two floors of premium office space with an irregular ellipse and a raked roof plane. Shade Factor was contracted to provide the shading solutions and control system. Solutions for asymmetric shapes are not so common in the blind industry so this project required new engineering to produce a variety of new blind types to meet the clients brief.

Solution

Custom engineering & prototyping

Some important factors Shade Factor had to consider when providing sun-shading for these areas include:

Design of a solution for venetian blinds under the glass roof to operate in a reclined orientation
Design of a louvre solution to match the venetian blinds but within an irregular shape
Design of 3, 4 and 5 sided retractable textile sunshading operating from base up and top down

External Venetian Blind designed to work under glass

Prototype view from roof

Warema 80mm rolled edge slat engineered to work in reclined plane

Prototyping retractable textile blinds

Irregular blinds designed to operate bottom-up and top-down

Shading Model

Created to simulate shading of surrounding buildings and feed in to control system

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