Tensile Membrane Structure Fabric

Since their development over 60 years ago, Tensile Membrane Structure Fabrics have become indispensable throughout industry. In the architecture of the 20th century glass increasingly dominated as the cladding style for high rise buildings. Associated with the production of glass from silica was the development of the synthetic polymers a silicone a with many advantages properties including chemical inertness, thermal stability and resistance to oxidation. Originally used as sealants and bonding agents for glass the rapidly expanding market in the fabric architecture prompted the development of silicone coated glass fabrics. ATEX from Interglas is the culmination of this hi-tech development with applications for creating lightweight membrane structures that embrace a new contemporary freedom of form, lightness and ecological appeal. . In what are called a frame supporteda structures, the fabric is fixed to rigid continuous components (metal keder, portal frames, trusses) whereas for a tension structuresa , cables, posts and ground anchors are used. Light, durable and completely recyclable, this fabric also extends the range of forms available to designers, allowing the creation of geometric shapes with single or double curvature, inverted or otherwise, and which can look like a dome, a diabolo, a spiral or hyperbolic paraboloid It goes without saying that the orange-coloured skirt of the ZACnith in Strasbourg (Massimiliano Fuksas).