Category
Construction (Commercial) » Best Use of Timber
Year
2018
Company
Lahey Constructions
Project
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre
Suburb
Zetland
Prize
Winner

The Joynton Avenue Creative Centre and Matron Ruby Grant Park project was an intricate and adaptive reuse of historical buildings and in doing so the builder was required to bring together all its experienced carpenters to develop, design and restore many timber elements of roofs, floors, doors and windows of these heritage buildings. The most outstanding feature of the restored buildings was the addition of seven timber-shaped shells of the JACC building.   The interior of each shell is lined with blackbutt timber battens fixed to galvanised-steel curved sub frames, which required each batten to be packed individually to ensure a smooth transition from one batten to the next. Each batten was string lined the full length of each shell and the battens brackets spaced at 400mm centres.  The arch of each internal shell required a template to ensure each shell lined up perfectly with the next.  The finished shells demonstrate the patience, skill and outstanding workmanship required to work in confined and elevated workspaces to achieve such a difficult design result with the use of timber.

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