Singapore Night Safari Unveils New Amphitheatre!
In an exciting development, the Night Safari has just unveiled its latest addition – a brand-new amphitheatre as part of the Mandai Rejuvenation Project to enhance Singapore’s wildlife precinct. Visitors of the world’s first nocturnal wildlife park can now enjoy a fully sheltered 1,000-seat amphitheatre and be mesmerised by the Night Safari’s iconic presentations no matter the weather. Inspired by the tropical landscape, the ADAS® Tensile Membrane structure of the amphitheatre features a natural curvature that blends in seamlessly with the green hilly terrains of Mandai. The sleek tensile membrane structure was designed and engineered by the ADAS team using architectural steel framing and high-tech PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) material, providing a durable and lightweight solution that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The lightweight and columns-free design offers an unobstructed view of the show stage framed by branching structures, while the high crest of the canopy creates an open and airy atmosphere. Throughout the project, the ADAS team was dedicated to creating a facility that is sensitive to the natural behaviour of the animals, while also taking into consideration audience comfort, animal welfare, and operation of the Night Safari facilities. Additionally, the amphitheatre was also thoughtfully designed to integrate advanced technologies such as an LED wall, surround sound, and lighting system, as well as water features and thematic trees, to create an immersive experience for visitors. Further into the construction phase, our experienced project team also attentively executed the site construction in a timely and safe manner, overcoming restrictive site constraints and limitations due to the ongoing park operations. In collaboration with the team of project consultants and the Night Safari operators, the ADAS project team successfully delivered a state-of-the-art facility that is both functional and beautiful. With our ADAS® Tensile Membrane as a stunning backdrop, we are thrilled to welcome visitors to the new amphitheatre for an unforgettable Creatures of the Night experience. P.S.: No animals were harmed in the execution of this project.
Latest Features of Windas Work Station
Windas Work Station is the main product of ADAS Byte: It is a specialized engineering software for the advanced analysis, automatic design and fabrication of space frame, tensile membrane, ETFE cushion, and cable-net structures. Currently running on parallel and cluster processing, Windas can accommodate an unlimited number of elements & nodes. The structural analysis of a 10,000m2 membrane represented as 27,000 mesh elements can be done in within 3 minutes(1). Aside from being fast, Windas Work Station is flexible and robust. 20 types of elements with different degrees of freedom can be analyzed under one user interface. The type of elements includes various types of 1D lines, Bernoulli beams, 2D shells, surface elements, and 3D solid elements. The solvers available are equally capable of handling the ranges of element type. As of this date, Windas is able to run complete comprehensive analysis for tensile fabric structures, tensegrity structure, cable-net system, and even 2D component-based FEM analysis. Windas was created as an automatic design & analysis software for ADAS® Spaceframe systems. To integrate automatic spaceframe fabrication into the workflow, the WinSSDM plug-in was introduced. WinSSDM allows for the automatic design of each nodal joint. This design procedure includes sizing of the nodes as well as the associated bolts, sleeves, and hole orientations. Additionally, material quantity take-off sheets and installation drawings will be automatically produced as well. This set of data will then be used on a CNC machine to fabricate the components accordingly. As our expertise diversified, Windas has been adapted to specialize in tensile fabric analysis as well. With extensive library of tensile membrane fabrics and ETFE films, Windas is also capable of performing form-finding and loading analysis for such niche materials. Similarly, cable-net and tensegrity system analysies have been introduced and verified subsequently. Also keeping up with the trend within structural engineers, Windas is now capable of executing component-based finite element analysis. Currently under development, as of now Windas recognized Andes Shell, Mitc Shell, Quad Shell, and Semi-loof shell elements to carry out this type of analysis. With the wide variety of analyses that can be done within Windas, each user has the freedom to accurately and effectively complete their work in accordance to project requirement. Feel free to visit our ADAS Byte website and be in touch should you have further queries. Also, check out our brief tutorial on Youtube!
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