Recent projects

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:

tensioned fabric PVC roofing

Fabric V1: cream coloured 650 gram/sqm architectural PVC

 

And after the installation of the new “block-out” opaque white fabric membrane:

 
tensioned fabric opaque white fabric roof

Fabric Version 2: opaque white "block-out" architectural PVC

 
fabric PVC tensioned roof in opaque white

Fabric Version 2: opaque white architectural PVC

 
Of course the client received the benefit of Shades’ “real” warranty service, although was happy to pay just a few bucks more to up-grade to the opaque fabric.
 
And what did he have to say?
 
 

“I really appreciate the friendly way you’ve honoured this (warranty) commitment and given the opportunity to undertake an upgrade”.

 
 
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TENSIONED FABRIC BARREL VAULT ROOF STRUCTURE

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.

 
Tensisoned fabric roofing

Installation team at work

 

barrel vault fabric roofing structure

The roof

 
Tensioning corner plate

Tensioning corner plate

 
tensioned fabric roofing

Views to Rawai and Chalong Bay

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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

Shades sails at Bud's Nursery & Kindergarten, Phuket

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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 fabric on a tensioned fabric awning at Phuket Boat Lagoon Marina

Sunbrella acrylic tensioned over steel & hardwood frame - perfect match!

 

acryliv tensioned fabric awning by Shades Thailand a tensile fabric structure

 

hardwood column on tensile fabric  awning at Boat Lagoon Marina Phuket Thailand

Stained hardwood column provides required support for the awning frame

 

tensioned fabric awning using Sunbrella fabric

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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

 
tensioned fabric awnings by Shades at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Bangkok
Covered walkway and waiters’ station
 
tensioned fabric walkway fabric structure by Shades
Covered walkway – removable for the dry season
 
tensioned fabric walkway structure by Shades
Walkway fabric structure
 
Tensioned fabric waiters' station by Shades, at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Bangkok
Waiters’ station

 

Mandarin Oriental Bangkok awnings

Before and after

 

stainless steel, redwood and Sunbrella combined to produce a beautiful tensioned fabric structure by Shades Thailand

local redwood, 316 grade stainless steel, and Sunbrella woven acrylic – a stunning combination

 

Sunbrella and stainless steel  in a tensioned fabric awning by Shades

 

tensioned fabric structure by Shades Asia at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Bangkok Thailand

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