A fabric facade shade system providing window shade and adding an interesting architectural dimension to a building.
Project Details
Client: | Creative Spaces Te Puia |
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Fabric Type: | Mesh |
Scope of Work: | Concept – Design – Fabricate � Install |
Location: | Te Puia Building, Rotorua |
Size: | 35m x 3m |
Completion: | 2nd May 2007 |
The client was looking to provide sun protection to the north facing elevations of an existing building as well as make an architectural statement out of an otherwise square building.
A self resolving engineered steel frame structure was designed to attached to the elderly and structurally limited building, with which to take the individually tensioned PVC membrane shade sails.