Project Winner – Luxe Lodge
Designed by: Mark Gacesa – Ultraspace
Corian® Colours: Lava Rock, Glacier Ice, Night Sky, Glacier White
DuPont™ Certified Fabricator: Minka Joinery
Joiner/Builder: Minka Joinery
This project has the presence of a 7-star luxury hotel while combining the warmth and organic feel of nature. To achieve this, natural-look finishes such as honed slab marble, rock cladding, Hosowari cladding, dull brass and aged bronze were combined with with glamorous finishes such as antiqued Tuscan amber mirror. Along with its silky seamless finish, Corian Lava Rock and Night Sky blended perfectly into the mix and allowed the designer to achieve the results desired.
Corian Glacier White refinished with Axolotl patinaed Bronze was used as custom thermoformed handles throughout the house that have a routered fret design which is a repeated theme. The handles on the vanity in the Main Bathroom do not have the routered fret design (they were left plain) because that pattern is not in this room.
Product Winner – Caulfield Sound Shell
Designed by: Tim Schork (Monash University) and Markus Schein (Kassel University) in collaboration with students – RAW: Monash Future Material and Fabrication Laboratory, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Monash University
Corian® Colours: Glacier White
DuPont™ Certified Fabricator: Individual Design and Construction
The Caulfield Sound Shell is a bespoke, high quality, student oriented, multi-purpose performance space that offers year round a purpose built permanent performance space for the students and wider campus community of the Caulfield campus of Monash University.
The project is collaboratively designed, fabricated and built by students from Monash Department of Architecture and the University of Kassel, Germany, and consist of more than 12,000 geometrically unique components.
Corian® was chosen for this unique and innovative structure as it enabled us to achieve the desired complex doubly curved geometries of the façade and provided us with a high-quality surface finish that is durable, has minimal maintenance requirements and can be used as a projection surface.
In order to achieve the complex non-repetitive doubly curved geometries of all 312 individual Corian®façade panels, a novel mould making process was developed using heat resistant high-density foam, a bespoke cutting strategy using a 6-axis industrial robot as well as a new L-bracket connection that connects the Corian® panels to primary and secondary structural timber components.
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