SAN KAI JAPANESE RESTAURANT

Increasing functionality, ensuring adequate natural lighting, and maintaining a sleek, elegant appearance was our challenge for this stunning project. San Kai restaurant needed an all-weather solution to increase the usability of their outdoor dining area. The lightweight awnings they previously installed were prone to water leaks, pooling and an overall messy appearance, so our brief…

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POOL MEMBRANE

Our client, Phil needed a multi-solution: firstly, waterproof shade protection for his pool and deck, privacy from neighbouring high-rise apartments and also to keep leaves from overhanging neighbouring trees out of the pool. Phil envisaged a vertical panel to shed the leaves back into the neighbours’ side. Our 3D survey of the area took each…

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PEPPERS KINGSCLIFF

Our client’s East facing apartment needed cover from the sun, rain and when entertaining guests. Being a rooftop apartment, they were concerned about how an awning would be affected by high winds and if there was a solution to solving their challenge. A site visit identified sun angles that projected into their living room and…

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AUSTRALIA ZOO TENTED CAMP

Client Australia Zoo Timeframe to complete shade structure 15 Days Location of shade structure Beerwah in Queensland Shade structure Challenges Short turn around period The site is publicly accessible The shade structure needed to look like a makeshift camp Limited access meant digging by hand Crocodiles being released and had to help with carrying the…

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NOOSA BOTANICAL GARDEN

Versatile Structures won the 2020 Specialised Textiles and 2022 LSAA Citation of Merit award for the Noosa Botanical Gardens shade structure

In the 1980s, Noosa Council repurposed an extra-large bird aviary at Noosa Botanic Gardens to a shade house to establish and protect unique flora for public display. Versatile Structures were commissioned to remove the old shade house and replace it with a new practical and cost-effective shade solution. This large-scale project had an unconventional footprint,…

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