Tensile or membrane structures are used widely around the world as shelters for buildings, play grounds, tropical gardens, parking spaces, storage rooms, shading devices, stadiums… and with innovative lightings as a pivotal commercial eye-catcher for clients.
Structural fabric has the flexibility of form that sets it apart from both an aesthetic and a functional point of view, from any other conventional building material. The free-flowing, organic forms achieved by these structures are physically unachievable by the much more rigid structures.
Tensile structures are unique by the combination of their specific physical, technical and geometrical characteristics and can be designed as permanent, temporary or even portable structures.
Tensile structures can be designed for an endless range of applications that leave both an exciting and original architectural landmark. Tensile structures are not only lightweight, elegant and translucent, they are also durable and often economic over large spans. All of these characteristics give designers and architects an unequalled and almost unlimited aesthetic potential to explore fabric forms, and to integrate them with their architecture. |
