Tensile Fabric Façades

Practically, fabric facades deliver on many levels. They have the power to renew, modernise and transform tired facades. Tensile facades allow opportunities to create shade and reduce the sun’s glare while allowing plentiful daylight in.

Instead of providing a canopy-like structure or tensile fabric roof, a tensile fabric façade will span a vertical space enveloping a building, or part of a building, with a lightweight flexible cladding system. Delivering the ability to cover longer distances without the need for much structural steel support, tensile fabric cladding is an innovative and cost-effective alternative to traditional building products.

In addition, tensile fabric facades have acoustic benefits too. Fabric facades can help dampen noise pollution coming into a building while also reducing interior echo and noise levels in larger spaces such as stadiums, shopping centres, hospitals, and atriums in office buildings.

Fabric façades therefore have a wide range of design and practical uses with some stunning applications both externally and internally.

If you’re considering using tensile fabric cladding for architecture or incorporating it an interior setting, then take a look at some of our Façade projects for inspiration. We have done some stunning and innovative projects such as our recently completed fabric cladding at Silverstone Race Circuit.

With a wide range of design choices, the aesthetic benefits of fabric facades are plentiful. Whether planning a new construction or a conservative renovation, tensile fabric cladding allows architects and business owners a greater element of creative flexibility and design freedom.

Buildings become vehicles for making a statement, increasing brand awareness, and maximising the visibility of a business. Structures can be clad in many coloured fabrics; fabrics can be printed with graphics, patterns or company branding and up lit at night for maximum impact.

Fabric cladding offers a variety of design and functional benefits to help modernise and adapt architecture to specific requirements. Fabric facades can be an attractive and useful solution for a wide range of projects, so they offer you a complete solution to your architecture needs. Here are some of the benefits:

• Creative freedom and flexibility
• Long span capabilities
• Cost efficient solution
• Effective light translucency
• Reduce glare and create shade
• Improve poor acoustics
• Mesh fabrics aid air ventilation
• Digital printing ability on PVC and ETFE
• Option to add lighting schemes