Sometimes things go wrong!
Some time ago we designed and installed a fabric roof for one of our valued clients in Kata Beach, Phuket. After about 12 months one of the cream fabric panels, for some reason, faded to a lighter colour. Our fabric manufacturer honoured their warranty and supplied us with new fabric for the entire roof. The client took this opportunity to up-grade the fabric from a transluscent architectural PVC to a white block-out PVC fabric, to counter the total exposure to Phuket’s blazing sun and provide a slightly darker, glare-free atmosphere in his roof-top patio area.
Here is the roof before:
Fabric V1: cream coloured 650 gram/sqm architectural PVC
And after the installation of the new “block-out” opaque white fabric membrane:
Fabric Version 2: opaque white "block-out" architectural PVC
Fabric Version 2: opaque white architectural PVC
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“I really appreciate the friendly way you’ve honoured this (warranty) commitment and given the opportunity to undertake an upgrade”. |
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
Shade is a must for kids playgrounds. Bud’s Nursery & Kindergarten School in Chalong, Phuket, opened it’s new school campus this week, complete with two custom-designed shade sails by Shades
Shades sails at Bud's Nursery & Kindergarten, Phuket
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
