Tensile Fabric Façades

Tensile fabric facades are a type of tensioned fabric structures that are becoming an increasingly popular choice for architects, and general contractors looking to create a second skin for a building’s exterior. Tensile fabric membrane, architectural mesh and ETFE can all be utilised to modernise buildings with dramatic results.

Light weight tensile fabric cladding can be easily and efficiently added to an existing building façade, or alternatively, architects turn to fabric facades in their schemes for new buildings after realising the creative potential of fabric cladding to add 3D shapes, curvature, and dramatic impact to a new construction.

Uses and Types of Tensile Fabric Cladding

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.

Exterior and Interior Fabric Cladding Designs

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.

Temporary schemes can also be designed to promote an event or as a branding exercise for a product. Using fabric cladding can allow you to be more creative with promotional material and more importantly it would be more visible, especially when used for external architecture.

Arc Structures offers you full control over your interior and exterior façade solutions. Our bespoke designs allow you to tailor our amazing architecture to your specific needs.

We will embark on a thorough and rigorous design process where engineering calculations, general arrangement drawings, detailed fabrication drawings and fabric patterns will be produced.

Get in touch with our experienced team on 01275 882107 or email us today and see how we can help with your next project.

Benefits of a Fabric Cladding System:

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

Design, Manufacturing, and Installation with the UK’s Leading Fabric Façade Provider

With more than 20 years’ experience working with tensile structures, canopies, and event structures, we have all the capabilities we need to deliver your project.

ARC Structures work across the UK and internationally to design, manufacture, build, install and maintain tensile fabric structures which perform for our clients creatively and functionally.

Get in touch with our experienced team on 01275 882107 or email us today and see how we can help with your next project.

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