By Abbie Yarger Throughout the world, sports venues are being built or remodeled to include retractable roofs. In areas where bad weather can cause delays that disappoint fans and players alike, these roofs allow games to continue. That’s why the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) wanted a retractable roof for the Wimbledon Centre Court [...]
The new Sante Fe Opera cantina observes sustainable conventions and leaves the patrons fed and dry. I love sitting underneath the canopy at the Cantina on a rainy day,” says architect Hugh Hardy, principal of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, designer of the new Sante Fe Opera dining facility in the New Mexico desert. “You can [...]
Cooley’s Weathertyte® architectural fabric has waterproof properties, flame resistance, and a unique look and feel. Now Cooley is introducing an 11-ounce Weathertyte® Lite, which offers the same overall benefits as Weathertyte, but its lighter weight makes for easier handling. Applications include boat covers and bimini tops, flags and banners. Weathertyte Lite is digitally printable, UV [...]
The Synthesis AF-350 knitted shade cloth is a fire-retardant fabric specifically designed for large-scale architectural tension structures and shade covers. The heavy-duty design, featuring a close-knit pattern, provides high strength and dimensional stability and a 10-year UV-degradation warranty. A fabric that will not rot or absorb moisture, Synthesis AF-350 passes California Title 19 fire code [...]
With 35 years of experience in handling plasticized textiles, Lonas Lorenzo is a South American pioneer in the engineering and construction of architectural textile and tension structures. Any type of space can be covered—such as stadiums, fairgrounds and shopping malls—using the most advanced materials and contemporary forms. SOURCE Lonas Lorenzo SA de CV
MPanel-R is the new tensile structure design software from Meliar Design. MPanel incorporates a set of form-finding and patterning tools that work as an add-on toolbar inside Rhinoceros® CAD software. A sister product for the company’s flagship, MPanel, which works inside the AutoCAD platform, MPanel-R and MPanel offer complete tools for form-finding and 3-D design [...]
Taconic’s Solus® line is a collection of multi-layer architectural fabrics comprised of PTF-coated Fiberglas® fabric for interior and structural applications. Lightweight, energy efficient, flexible, weldable and fire resistant, Solus is coated on both sides with PTFE and is translucent, allowing soft, diffused lighting for glare-free interiors. Due to the material’s flexibility, it can be tensioned [...]
The skinny on photovoltaics using fabric and where to find it By Amelia Amon Buckminster Fuller famously asked a group of architects “How much does your building weigh?” His query to us now might be, “How much energy is embedded in your photovoltaic installation?” Flexible amorphous PV panels, nano-tech films and solar fabrics on lightweight [...]
How a German engineering/architecture firm is leading the way in designing exciting and unusual fabric structures By Mark Zeh Recently I had the pleasure of talking to Gerd Schmid and Bernd Stimpfle, the managing directors of form TL. form TL is a structural engineering consultancy located in Radolfzell in the south of Germany on the [...]
There’s potential for illumination and interactivity in metal mesh fabrics, blending electronics, architecture, innovation and economy. By June Bisantz Imagine a future in which surfaces manifest themselves as translucent, receptive membranes, shimmering with light and movement. Our everyday lives will be transformed by walls, ceilings and floors that respond to movement and changes in the [...]
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