Two entrance canopies designed and installed in record time!
Design started in early January giving a four month window from conception to completion!!
The ten meter cantilevered Skylar structure and the large hyper abut the ancient city wall giving a contemporary feel to the new Watergate Square Entrance.
York race course Clock Tower Enclosure opens with 10 tensile canopies
The historic Clock Tower Enclosure at York race course opened with 10 new tensile canopies.
One of the most interesting features of these structures are the 10 clear polycarbonate covered oculi in the roof framed by the tensile fabric giving a light playful feel to the project.
This form was particularly chosen as a nod to the race course’s Roman history. “Oculus” from the Latin word eye was used quite extensively in Roman architecture.
ETFE inflated cushion structures
The design was conceived by Leonard Design Architects and was fully detailed, engineered, manufactured and installed by Fabric Architecture.
The delicate tapered masts support two 7 metre diameter and two 8 metre diameter over sailing twin skinned ETFE cushions and are lit with a continuous LED light.
The structures are supported on a suspended deck. The services and inflation tubes are hidden in internal ducts in the steel frames and through the deck.
Tensile Fabric Link Structure for WAM
It was important to express a sense of light-hearted playfulness in what is a very functional building. The combination of arches combined with a flying conical form won the day, within tight budget parameters.
Retail face-lift for St Enoch’s with fabric acoustic ceiling
These fabric acoustic ceiling ‘sails’ replace some rather tired and ineffectual window treatments that proved inadequate, both visually and acoustically, and did little to reduce glare through the glass atrium roof.
The new design incorporates an effective integral lighting system and gives the centre a completely new look and feel.
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Fabric Architecture assist St Johns Square, Basingstoke Rejuvenation
These large inflated cushions situated in St Johns Square act as the main front door to Festival Place Basingstoke.
These overlapping sculptures appear to be floating on tapered columns, lit with a halo of discreet LED lights, marking the much-awaited rejuvenation to this vibrant social hub.
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Skylight Feature at Moet Pavilion
The efficient use of an existing barrel vault form, modified to include an “eyelet” skylight detail along the ridgeline, results in maximum coverage for minimum expense.
The structure is flooded with natural light benefitting both vendors and race goers using the tote kiosks underneath. At £350m2, this structure was a budget-friendly alternative for the racecourse who had several areas outlined for improvements across the site.
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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.