#birdair

[stress-test]

variants, all fine,

different vibes but only so much time

[stress-test]

WIP

I started this while suffering from infatuation w a person who deserved the love but didn’t meet me halfway :/

The orange lighting would later change but in this version I was inspired by having recently watched Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Part 1

[fabricarchitect]

2018: Towards an Era of shade, signage and pillows

I got into fabric structures in the 1980’s when The Haj Terminal in Saudi Arabia designed by American Architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) were on the cover of every architectural magazine in the world and air and tensioned fabric structures from U.S. based Geiger Berger Associates were the talk of the Engineering town. The Fabric structure world here in the US has made a lot of…

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[fabricarchitect]

An Umbrella when you need it

An Umbrella when you need it

Hypar Park is an adaptable shade structure system based on the concept of the hyperbolic paraboloid. The structure is designed to support a “Hypar” membrane. The fabric roof can be made of structural mesh, vinyl coated polyester, ptfe, etfe or stretch fabric  and can be installed on the structure quite easily. These architectural umbrellas can be laid out in any configuration and are ideal for…

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[fabricarchitect]

How Hard Can It Possibly Be?

How Hard Can It Possibly Be?

There are 5.1 things that I learned over the past 12 months since I started my own business after 20 years working for a variety of companies.

      1. “Its just steel, fabric and cables”. It seems that way but there is so much more. There is design, engineering, fabrication and installation. So much of it is behind the scenes. The client and the contractor and the user think its so easy but as…

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[disciplinethepainter]

One of the first Birdair Structures , the Swimshelter (1957), was also one of the first domestic applications for an inflatable building .