Designer: Moth Design
Builder: Moth Design
Location: Melbourne Park, VIC
Partridge maintains an ongoing partnership with Moth Design, a Melbourne-based studio that creates immersive interiors and temporary installations for the hospitality and events sectors. Our collaboration focuses on the structural resolution of bespoke elements, ensuring that Moth’s creative vision is matched by material durability and ease of construction.
Asahi Terrace
For the Asahi booth at the Australian Open, Partridge was engaged to engineer a series of lightweight elements for a temporary terrace installation. We designed the steel pergola to achieve wide spans while maintaining a slim, minimalist profile, carefully calculating connections to manage wind loads and the practicalities of quick installation. The timber terrace platform was engineered for stability and stiffness under foot traffic, utilising a system that favoured rapid on-site assembly.
Additionally, we developed a custom frame for the front façade of the marquee and engineered the freestanding Asahi kanji characters with base connections that securely manage weight and wind resistance without compromising their aesthetic form.
Asahi kanji characters
Our work for Brookvale Union at the Australian Open involved engineering several feature elements within a high-traffic outdoor environment. These structures combined steel and timber, requiring robust load paths to ensure public safety. We engineered the Orb Tree as a geometric steel structure, refining the member sizes and joints for efficient fabrication. The timber arbour and “Hero” structure were similarly resolved to support their architectural forms, with a focus on durable joints and straightforward support conditions that perform reliably in external settings.
Brookvale Union
Across both projects, the Partridge team provided practical and buildable structural solutions. Our role is to bridge the gap between ambitious design and physical reality, ensuring every installation meets rigorous safety and performance standards while remaining true to the original design intent.
