The collective is a conduit for the small to act big. Established by a couple of structural engineers, designers, and amateur furniture makers to be a bit different. 

Photo provided by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot

Residential

From 70m2 to highrise residential, structural engineering solutions need to serve the people who live, use or interact in these spaces. Our hope is structural solutions go unnoticed as they are are just a part of the fabric of the space. 

Commercial

We have extensive experience designing with offices, warehouses and open plan spaces. These spaces need to be open and relatively structure-free, efficient but still have character.

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For FUN

Our team shares a passion for design and craftmanship. We may not be masters, but we encourage our staff to trial aspects of their own design and construction to create deeper understanding of the process.

* the projects below are were not carried out by flux structural collective. They are individual engineers work and belong to the companies as noted below, and are only serve as a portfolio of individual engineers and their relative experience on projects.

Logs for Jobs mixed with pure architecture

 

Company: Flux Structural Collective

The modhouse was the first opportunity for our collective and a project that spoke to our core values. The hook “logs for jobs” credo stuck with us as we begun exploring the rapidly advancing New Zealand engineered timber industry that has sprung up around this aspirational philosophy. Adopting progressive methods of prefabrication, combined with bespoke ductile detailing from readily available components, the structure becomes the architecture. In simplistic terms no gib will be harmed in the making of this house. Whilst this high quality and precisely manufactured timber is not inexpensive, with this quantity of off-site prefabrication perhaps the single greatest benefit is the speed with which the house can be assembled onsite which should go a large way to offsetting the upfront capital costs.

John, our friend and client, has very clear ideas yet he is always willing to listen - so through the lost art of butter-paper sketches, friendly banter, coffee and the occasional brew we find solutions. The same can now be said of our newest project member, builder Mark Boys.

 
Photo provided by Mark Boys Builders - Day 1

Photo provided by Mark Boys Builders - Day 1

Photo provided by Mark Boys Builders - Day 3

Photo provided by Mark Boys Builders - Day 3

Photo supplied by Flux - Out Of the ground

Photo supplied by Flux - Out Of the ground

Structural and architectural form become one, giving a very distinctive tower 

 

Company: Mott Macdonald, Senior structural engineer

Auckland's tallest residential building formed by architectural diagrid frame on the outside of the floor plate. The exoskeleton structure forms the main lateral stability structure. The slender aspect ratio of the tower required the design to adapt a distributed damping solution to control wind induced vibrations. This small but powerful technology fits within the existing structure and will be the first of its kind. 

 

 
Photo provided by Peddle Thorpe

Photo provided by Peddle Thorpe

Photo provided by Peddle Thorpe

Photo provided by Peddle Thorpe

Photo supplied by Mott Macdonald.

Photo supplied by Mott Macdonald.

Redefining the public realm with a intergrated  landmark tower

 

Company: Mott Macdonald, Senior structural Engineer

Rejuvenation of Festival Square within Adelaide CBD by reinventing the "public realm" to open a space for interactions. The site forms a connection between the CBD, River, Government house and the redeveloped Adelaide Oval. The landmark reinforced concrete tower is currently in concept stage, but once complete and will be one of Adelaide's tallest buildings. We are are using our experience with towers, to form part of the wider team apart of the team to deliver the lateral stability for the tower.

 

 
Image supplied by Walkers PTY

Image supplied by Walkers PTY

A resilient design adapted to a limited structure

 

Company: Spencer Holmes Limited, Structural Engineer

An existing concrete skeleton with detailing deficiencies has had its life extended without compromising its use or functionality with a sympathetic strengthening approach. The introduced structure informs a new load path, bypassing detailing issues and forces the structure to perform in a ductile nature. The fuses are designed as the weak link and can be replaced in a post-event scenario. This damage avoidance for the main structure eliminates downtime and disruption.

 

 
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The building references the past but looks forward 

 

Company: Spencer Holmes Limited, Structural Engineer 

An existing social housing building was demolished and rebuilt in unchanging proportions. The new build seemed as if organically the original building seed germinated the second generation. The concrete fabric again formed the roots and branches which the yellow bloom cladding flowered itself around the facade.  The concrete structure allowed flexibility in internal layout was elegant in its simplicity, speed of construction, the reliability of performance, and repetition of detailing.

 

 
Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot 

Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot 

Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot

Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot

Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot

Photo supplied by Designgroup Stapleton Elliot

The passion for these projects can dwarf their larger counterparts

 

Company: Spencer Holmes Limited, Lead structural engineer

No project should be judged solely on budget or size, in fact, we find the smaller jobs rely on more innovative and flexible thinking to achieve clients expectations. We took our first steps in the industry on these projects typologies and fostered lasting connections. It was the underpinning ideas which allowed us to amplify ideas to the big scale. We never turn away a new opportunity to relive and start new journeys with fellow dreamers. 

 

 
Blue Basement. Photo supplied by Kebbell Daish 

Blue Basement. Photo supplied by Kebbell Daish 

Photo supplied by Parsonsons

Photo supplied by Parsonsons

Mojo Coffee Rostery Office.  Photo supplied by Trendsideas.com

Mojo Coffee Rostery Office.  Photo supplied by Trendsideas.com

Town Houses, 50 Omahu Road, Remuera

Town Houses, 50 Omahu Road, Remuera

Taking engineering digital

 

Company: Mott MacDonald, Lead structural engineer

We are not limited now by data, tools or technology, so lets use them to solve the critical site issues in the cloud rather than in the hole.

Our goal is to design for construction. All projects need to be built to realize our work, therefore it makes sense and go that an extra step to document how our design works and and break down any complexity to effectively share any unspoken knowledge.

 

 
Customs Residential - Mott MacDonald. Sketch By Andrew Johnston, Modelling By Hassan Taher Khorasani

Customs Residential - Mott MacDonald. Sketch By Andrew Johnston, Modelling By Hassan Taher Khorasani

Customs Residential, Complex steel node sketchup for Revit. Modelling By Hassan, Taher Khorasani

Customs Residential, Complex steel node sketchup for Revit. Modelling By Hassan, Taher Khorasani