Gaurav JoshiB. Arch IV

Sidney Myer Music BowlArchitect Barry Patten

Location Kings Domain, Melbourne

Opened February 1959

Public outdoor performance shelter  

Gaurav Joshib. Arch IV 

Beginning•Sidney Myer initiated the idea

•Inspired by the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles

•From concrete shell to tensile structural steel

•From simple white geometry to hi tech tensile structural system

•From Modernism to Late modernism

Design•“a sunken amphitheatre sheltered by a huge, flexible canopy floating over the grass.”

•a “sound shell”

•a “bowl for the people.”

•city's first major purpose-built outdoor venue

•``the most startling architectural piece ever seen in Melbourne.'‘

•structure combined the splendor of a concert hall with the relaxed feel of a sports arena

•won a prestigious American Institute of Architecture Award

Structure•a tensile structural system with a free-form roof.

•an innovative system of cables laced together and covered with aluminium faced plywood sandwich panels

•Weather proofed thin membranes of plywood

•Use of steel cables and two 21.3 m high masts

•Corrosion resistant ground anchors

•“a mammoth man-made engineering job”

Renovation•“considerable historical, social and cultural significance''

•Extensive renovations in 2000-2002

•To brought the venue's facilities up to international standards.

•fixed seating for 2030 people in 26 tiered rows

•Surrounding lawns can seat up to 23,000 people.

•The stage area is 27.4 X 19.5 m

•Area of the Bowl's canopy is 4055 square metres

•Total Height 20 m

A Late modernist building•sculptural expressionism

•Hi tech building

•Clear skin and bone structure

•Use of metal in façade

•Structure as ornament

•Promise of the future

•Column free space

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