Tensioned fabric "barrel vault" roofing structure on Jim's Phuket condo roof-top Installation - like most of our structures, this one was built and "pre-installed" at Shades' Phuket factory and installed in a "quck and clean" bolt-together operation free of on-site cutting, welding or painting.
Installation team at work
The roof
Tensioning corner plate
Views to Rawai and Chalong Bay
Our client’s brand new villa lacked one thing – a shady place to relax by the pool on those hot sunny Phuket afternoons.
“Please, for Christmas” was the request, and within 2 weeks we delivered. From first measure, through design, fabrication and installation.
"All I want for Christmas is" ... some shade!
"All I want for Christmas is" ... some shade!
Back to basics! Our client wanted a patio awning to blend with his stunning Spanish-design home in Phuket’s Boat Lagoon Marina. We thought about all the yacht covers we have done in our early days at Shades, and came up with what we think is a most suitable adaption of that “marine look” for this marina house.
We chose Sunbrella woven acrylic as a long-lasting tensionable fabric in a colour to provide some light translucency and to blend with the all-white house. White marine epoxy painted rafters and beams helped with the theme. White is white, but for that real marina touch, we added a contrast (our specialty): a stained redwood timber column with white base and top caps, and 316 garde stainless steel fittings.
A marina house, the maritime look and feel!
Did it work?
”It’s fantastic” says the client.
Sunbrella acrylic tensioned over steel & hardwood frame - perfect match!
Stained hardwood column provides required support for the awning frame
The Manadrin Oriental Bangkok – one of the finest luxury hotels in the world for the last 135 years, enjoys a premium site on the bank of Bangkok’s mighty Chao Phraya River.
The hotel’s riverside location provides perfect outdoor dining venues – now enhanced by the installation of beautiful tensioned fabric awnings for walkways and waiters’ work stations by Shades
- Covered walkway and waiters’ station
- Covered walkway – removable for the dry season
- Walkway fabric structure
- Waiters’ station
Before and after
local redwood, 316 grade stainless steel, and Sunbrella woven acrylic – a stunning combination
Shades’ solution to Phuket Gazette’s sunny office atrium
When Phuket Gazette needed shade for their atrium office at their new building in Phuket, SHADES were there to come up with an “outside the box” solution.
Stops the sun.... lets in the light