Hummersknott Academy Completes
Full project details will be available shortly, meanwhile enjoy the gallery images showing the scope and scale of this bespoke tensile fabric structure designed, engineering, manufactured and installed by fabric architecture.
Westfield, Stratford Place Completes
With over 45m people visiting the centre every year, spending over £1bn, the development is one of Westfield’s most important assets. Following previous successful projects at Chetsnut Plaza and at sister-site Westfield, London, Fabric Architecture was appointed to create a feature canopy at Stratford Place.
Find the full Westfield Stratford Place story here
Fabric Architecture gets Hummersknott back on budget
Hummersknott is a successful and thriving Academy in Darlington that is consistently over-subscribed. Built just a few years ago, additional facilities are being built to increase usable space within its grounds.
Fabric Architecture were approached relatively late in the tender stage to find efficiencies in the tensile structure. A previous tensile sub-contractor had doubled the weight of steel needed in the design, pushing the project into the red. Fabric Architecture set about re-engineering and re-designing the structure to make it more efficient, bringing it back in budget.
The structure measures 32m x 14m in plan and consists of 12 upright masts supporting a lozenge-shaped roof frame fitted with a double-skin canopy with integrated, protective bird mesh. Fabric is a type III PVC, Serge Ferrari “precontraint 1202”.
The steel framework completes this week and the fabric elements will begin in the New Year, with completion planned by mid-January 2016.
Al Ain Zoo tensile project
Previously, the company supplied a series of 30 hypar-shaped ‘Skylar’ structures designed for way-marking throughout the zoo’s welcome area. This tensile project will provide a number of canopies for the Souk – a new section opening within the attraction in summer 2016.
The design of the tensile project encompasses triangular panels linked to a central five-sided conic with a flying-mast, all interspersed with palm trees. The tensiles will span over 40 metres, connected directly to the wall around the perimeter, others supported by steel masts sitting over 10m high. A Serge Ferrari ‘pre-constraint’ fabric will be used for this design – durable and suitable for the local environment.
Tensiles and LEGO® meet in playfully clever project
The pool had its heyday between the 1920s and the 1970s but has since sat unused, at the southern end of Londsands. The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool, formed in 2012 to look into the potential of the site, have commissioned this fascinating architectural model in Lego®.
Built by Steve Mayes of Brickthis.co.uk and incorporating conceptual tensile fabric canopies from Fabric Architecture Limited, the model provides a unique insight into the untapped potential of the outdoor pool.
Steve has worked with Fabric Architecture on several photographic projects of their tensile structures. Both are now looking forward to developing their relationship with future collaborations, combining a joint passion for “the brick” with Steve’s expertise in producing architectural LEGO® models.
Chandos Fabric Roof From The Air
Over 3000 sqm of tensile fabric now covers the new tennis courts providing a members with the latest, state of the art facilities.
Rarely do we have the opportunity to view our projects from the air, but this week we were lucky enough to capture these aerial shots of the Chandos fabric roof, showing the wider Chandos site plus the scale and scope of our works for Main Contractors McLaughlin and Harvey.
Follow this project from contract award through to completion on our Blog - 'Watch it Unfold!'
Fabric Architecture and Westfield reunite
Fixed to existing buildings, suspended over car parks and by a busy hotel with guests to consider, this extremely complex fully-bespoke project will be delivered in a little under 5 months from initial instruction to final sign-off. Challenges aside, Fabric Architecture are delighted to once again be Westfield’s chosen contractor for this project and look forward to returning to Stratford City.
http://uk.westfield.com/stratfordcity/
New Street Opens
Fabric Architecture designed the fully-integrated fabric lining inside the new ETFE atrium and concourse.
Hailed an overwhelming success by press and passengers alike, the station design includes a vast light-filled concourse with a shopping centre including anchor store John Lewis, due to open later this week.
The guardian reports “Amazing. Just amazing” while BBC news declares “Look at this roof, it’s simply stunning” meanwhile the BBC News Breakfast have parked the red sofa under the roof for their Monday morning live broadcast, alongside BBC Business updates throughout the day.
Fabric Architecture designed, engineered and installed the fully-integrated fabric lining inside the new ETFE atrium and concourse. This large-scale interior project for Network Rail and Mace Group includes a bespoke steel truss framework and over 600sqm of tensile cladding, combining solid and mesh fabrics. The fabric collar sweeps around the upper retail level and forms teardrop openings among the steel ‘buttresses’. The use of tensile fabric allows a sleek and uninterrupted interface between the concrete bulkhead and the ETFE roof above.
New Street Progresses
This large-scale interior project includes a bespoke steel truss framework and over 600sqm of tensile cladding, combining solid and mesh fabrics.
Currently underway is the installation of the fabric collar which sweeps around the upper retail level and forms teardrop openings among the steel ‘buttresses’. The use of tensile fabric allows a sleek and uninterrupted interface between the concrete bulkhead and the ETFE roof above.
The full story about our fully-integrated fabric lining will shortly be available alongside other completed projects in our Projects section…
Final Phase at New Street
This week sees Fabric Architecture delivering the final touches to the tensile interiors – a fully-integrated fabric lining inside the new ETFE atrium and concourse.
This large-scale interior project for Network Rail and Mace Group includes a bespoke steel truss framework and over 600sqm of tensile cladding, combining solid and mesh fabrics. The fabric collar sweeps around the upper retail level and forms teardrop openings among the steel ‘buttresses’. The use of tensile fabric allows a sleek and uninterrupted interface between the concrete bulkhead and the ETFE roof above.
The full story will shortly be available alongside other completed projects in our Projects section...