Trifolium Pavilion, Sydney Structure, NSW Building, Architecture Competition, Images
Trifolium Pavilion in Sydney
Curvey Wall and Roof Structured Public Building, Australia – design by AR-MA
1 Oct 2016
Trifolium Pavilion
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.
 

images : AR-MA
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...