This is the presentation used for the first of our tensile fabric webinars, a refresher programme for architects. Webinar 1 is called 'Getting started - inspiration, tools and tips' and provides plenty of architectural inspiration and examples of the basic principles used in tensile fabric design, manufacture and installation. You can also watch recordings of the narrated webinar series, simply visit www.basestructures.com/portal/tensile-fabric-webinars.html. For more information please visit our website www.basestructures.com

1. The tensile fabric webinar series
Webinar 1: Getting started – inspiration, tools and tips

2. Kevin Hemmings, Architect
Over 27 years of tensile fabric experience
Had a hand in some of the most exciting
tensile projects in the UK and overseas
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3. We are Base Structures
Incorporated in 2001
Based in Bristol, UK
Operating worldwide
Key Projects
The London 2012 Games, Lords Cricket Ground,
Heathrow Terminal 5, Up at The O2
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4. The tensile fabric webinar series
Webinar 1
Webinar 2
Webinar 3
Getting started
– inspiration,
tips and tools
Realising your
tensile fabric
vision
London 2012
Games case
study – The
Basketball Arena
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An architect’s tensile fabric refresher programme

5. Webinar 1
Inspiration, form
and function
Benefits
Basic principles
Top tensile tips
Visualising your
ideas
Questions and
answers
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Getting started – inspiration, tips and tools

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Inspiration, form and
function

7. Retractable roofs
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Medin Haram Piazza

8. Retractable roofs
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Medin Haram Piazza

9. Stadiums
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London 2012 Basketball Arena

10. Covered streets
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Samworth Academy, Nottingham

11. Atriums
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Abito Apartments, Manchester

12. Entrance canopies
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Royal Free Hospital, London

13. Fabric cladding
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MSCP, Cardiff

14. Modular cladding
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Sainsbury’s, Whitechapel

15. Walkways
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Pollock, Glasgow

16. Breakout canopies
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Mendip Walkway, Coleg Gwent

17. Shelters
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Cairngorm 1P 1000, Heathrow

18. Performance canopies
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Portrush, Ireland

19. Pop up structures
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London 2012 EDF Pavilion

20. Brise soleil
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Saga Creche, Kent

21. Roofwalks
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Up at The O2, London

22. Ceilings
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Cannon Street Station, London

23. Sun shades
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St Enoch Centre, Cambridge

24. Sculpture
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Zaha Hadid – MIF

25. Fabric features
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Jan Blake, Beijing

26. Fabric features
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HSBC, Dublin

27. Fabric features
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O2 VIP Lounge, London

28. Fabric features
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Kings Waterfront, Liverpool

29. Exhibition
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3D Design Cones

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Benefits of tensile fabric

31. Value for
money
Off-site
manufacture
& installation
speed
Sustainable &
environmental
Demountable
& relocatable
Combat heat
gain and loss
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Unique
architectural
forms

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Basic principles

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37. The double curvature principle
Cone
Arch
Multiple
hypar
Inverted cone
Eccentric
arch
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Hypar

38. Cable net
Cable
supported
Framed
panels
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Flat fabric

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Top tensile tips

40. WARNING!
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Ponding and flatness

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Framed or unframed?

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Scallop or straight edge?

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Relocatable or permanent?

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Visualising your ideas

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The rough sketch

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The tights model

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CAD model

48. Useful software
Incorporating relaxed form software
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To give approximate shapes

49. models available by request
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3D

50. The tensile fabric webinar series
Webinar 1
Webinar 2
Webinar 3
Getting started
- Inspiration, tips
and tools
Realising your
tensile fabric
vision
London 2012
Games case
study – The
Basketball Arena
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An architect’s tensile fabric refresher programme

51. The tensile fabric webinar series
The procurement
route
Specifying
tensile fabric
Engineering
interfaces
Register now!
www.basestructures.com/portal/tensile-fabric-webinars.html
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Webinar 2 preview - Realising your tensile fabric vision

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