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The tensile fabric webinar series
Webinar 1: Getting started  inspiration, tools and tips
Kevin Hemmings, Architect
Over 27 years of tensile fabric experience
Had a hand in some of the most exciting
tensile projects in the UK and overseas

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Hello
We are Base Structures
Incorporated in 2001
Based in Bristol, UK
Operating worldwide
Key Projects
The London 2012 Games, Lords Cricket Ground,
Heathrow Terminal 5, Up at The O2

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Hello
The tensile fabric webinar series

Webinar 1

Webinar 2

Webinar 3

Getting started
 inspiration,
tips and tools

Realising your
tensile fabric
vision

London 2012
Games case
study  The
Basketball Arena

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An architects tensile fabric refresher programme
Webinar 1

Inspiration, form
and function

Benefits

Basic principles

Top tensile tips

Visualising your
ideas

Questions and
answers

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Getting started  inspiration, tips and tools
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Inspiration, form and
function
Retractable roofs

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Medin Haram Piazza
Retractable roofs

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Medin Haram Piazza
Stadiums

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London 2012 Basketball Arena
Covered streets

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Samworth Academy, Nottingham
Atriums

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Abito Apartments, Manchester
Entrance canopies

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Royal Free Hospital, London
Fabric cladding

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MSCP, Cardiff
Modular cladding

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Sainsburys, Whitechapel
Walkways

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Pollock, Glasgow
Breakout canopies

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Mendip Walkway, Coleg Gwent
Shelters

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Cairngorm 1P 1000, Heathrow
Performance canopies

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Portrush, Ireland
Pop up structures

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London 2012 EDF Pavilion
Brise soleil

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Saga Creche, Kent
Roofwalks

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Up at The O2, London
Ceilings

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Cannon Street Station, London
Sun shades

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St Enoch Centre, Cambridge
Sculpture

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Zaha Hadid  MIF
Fabric features

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Jan Blake, Beijing
Fabric features

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HSBC, Dublin
Fabric features

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O2 VIP Lounge, London
Fabric features

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Kings Waterfront, Liverpool
Exhibition

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3D Design Cones
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Benefits of tensile fabric
Value for
money

Off-site
manufacture
& installation
speed

Sustainable &
environmental

Demountable
& relocatable

Combat heat
gain and loss

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Unique
architectural
forms
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Basic principles
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The double curvature principle
Cone

Arch

Multiple
hypar

Inverted cone

Eccentric
arch

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Hypar
Cable net

Cable
supported

Framed
panels

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Flat fabric
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Top tensile tips
WARNING!

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Ponding and flatness
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Framed or unframed?
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Scallop or straight edge?
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Relocatable or permanent?
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Visualising your ideas
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The rough sketch
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The tights model
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CAD model
Useful software

Incorporating relaxed form software

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To give approximate shapes
models available by request

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3D
The tensile fabric webinar series

Webinar 1

Webinar 2

Webinar 3

Getting started
- Inspiration, tips
and tools

Realising your
tensile fabric
vision

London 2012
Games case
study  The
Basketball Arena

BASESTRUCTURES.COM

An architects tensile fabric refresher programme
The tensile fabric webinar series

The procurement
route

Specifying
tensile fabric

Engineering
interfaces

Register now!
www.basestructures.com/portal/tensile-fabric-webinars.html

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Webinar 2 preview - Realising your tensile fabric vision
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www.basestructures.com
mail@basestructures.com
+44 (0) 117 971 2229
Thank you

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