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
At the 2011 Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) “Expo Americas” in Baltimore, USA, Shades was awarded the top honour “Award of Excellence” for our “Phuket Sunset” fabric sala design.
This is our second IFAI award – in 2009 our free-standing poolside shade structure won an “Outstanding Achievement Award”.
Outside of China & Japan, Shades is the only company in Asia to have been honoured with an IFAI Achievment Award.
….. here’s the IFIA news release: (click here for the IFAI web announcement)
Roseville, Minn.– Oct. 26, 2011) – Shades (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Phuket, Thailand, was recognized with the 2011 International Achievement Award (IAA) presented by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) for its exceptional specialty fabric project.
Shades (Thailand) Co., Ltd received an AWARD OF EXCELLENCE for its “Villa Sala” project. The project was recognized in the competition’s Freestanding Structures category.
Selected from 385 entries from 16 different countries, these winners represent many of today’s top professionals in the specialty fabrics industry. Entries in 33 categories were judged by a diverse panel of industry experts, editors, architects, educators and design professionals selected for their knowledge of the particular category of competition. Judging was based on complexity, design, workmanship, uniqueness and function.
For more than six decades, IAA has recognized excellence in design and innovation, highlighting truly spectacular work in the specialty fabrics industry. The goal of IAA is to promote awareness of the specialty fabrics used in thousands of products and applications ranging in size and type. The International Achievement Awards competition is sponsored by IFAI, a not-for-profit trade association whose 2,000 member companies represent the international specialty fabrics marketplace.
The award ceremony took place at IFAI Expo Americas 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, at the annual trade event on 26 October 2011. IFAI Expo is the largest specialty fabrics trade show in the Americas.
And here’s the award winning sala – the “Phuket Sunset” in teak, 316 grade stainless steel, and architectural PVC, now being developed as a standard product (3 x 3 metres at column base).
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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 tensioned over steel & hardwood frame - perfect match!
Stained hardwood column provides required support for the awning frame
