ready to install shelter and shade solutions.
Fabric Signature is Fabric Architecture’s collection of cost-effective tensile fabric canopies and shade solutions.
ready to install shelter and shade solutions.
Fabric Signature is Fabric Architecture’s collection of cost-effective tensile fabric canopies and shade solutions.
ready to install shelter and shade solutions.
Fabric Signature is Fabric Architecture’s collection of cost-effective tensile fabric canopies and shade solutions.
Inspired by nature,designed to perform.
Manufactured using waterproof and UV-resistant fabric, they’re a convenient way to provide shelter and shade in school playgrounds, at entrances to hospitals, shopping centres and sports venues, and within parks and communal areas. Our tensile fabric canopies have a life expectancy of 10 to 30+ years and an almost infinite list of practical uses! It’s quick and easy to specify a solution from 18 pre-engineered and ready-to-install Signature Structures, all customisable to your requirements. Are your shade or shelter requirements a bit more complex? Ask our expert team to design and build a bespoke structure to meet your brief.
Inspired by nature, designed to perform.
Manufactured using waterproof and UV-resistant fabric, they’re a convenient way to provide shelter and shade in school playgrounds, at entrances to hospitals, shopping centres and sports venues, and within parks and communal areas. Our tensile fabric canopies have a life expectancy of 10 to 30+ years and an almost infinite list of practical uses! It’s quick and easy to specify a solution from 18 pre-engineered and ready-to-install Signature Structures, all customisable to your requirements. Are your shade or shelter requirements a bit more complex? Ask our expert team to design and build a bespoke structure to meet your brief.
Enjoy outdoor space all year round.
A tensile fabric structure introduces dynamic curves and shapes to an area while performing a practical function: providing shade or shelter and increasing the usability of outdoor space.
Signature Structures include standalone canopies, covered walkways, entrance shelters, covers for outdoor performance areas, and sails and kites that provide both function and design appeal.
Customise and modify your shelter and shade.
Play shades, walkway covers, outdoor dining canopies, entrance shelters, queue canopies – whatever you need can be customised with a vast choice of environmentally friendly fabrics in different colours and finishes, including a choice of finishes for the supporting metal framework.
Modifications and accessories include specific leg heights and padded leg-wrap kits, fixings for lighting, AV heating and electrical system.
Typical applications.
Event/Exhibition Halls
Hospitals
Hotels/Restaurants/Bars
Leisure Centres
Retail Spaces
Schools/Colleges/Universities
Theme Parks
Fabric options.
Signature products.
Clam shell
From any angle, the Clam Shell is an eye-catching sculptural structure. Canopy patterning and steelwork is inspired by nature.
Single conic
The elegant Single Conic structure is a beautifully practical canopy offering excellent coverage with minimal groundworks.
Double Conic
Multifunctional design is ideal for any situation; from educational and healthcare to commercial and retail use.
Triple Conic
The Triple Conic structure offers sleek, substantial coverage making it appealing in a host of locations, with several customisation options.
Inverse Conic
With integral rainwater management, the striking Inverse Conic is beautiful, highly practical and easy to maintain.
Is your projecteligible forfunding?
Funding is often available for organisations, charities and community schemes looking to make better use of outdoor spaces. If this is something you’re involved with and your improvement initiative needs a shade canopy, walkway cover, retractable awning or any other versatile fabric shade or shelter, we’d be delighted to help with your application. See our dedicated funding section on our education page for links to funding routes including The National Lottery, which funds projects in the arts, sport, heritage, charity, voluntary, health, education and environmental sectors.
Is your project eligible for funding?
Funding is often available for organisations, charities and community schemes looking to make better use of outdoor spaces. If this is something you’re involved with and your improvement initiative needs a shade canopy, walkway cover, retractable awning or any other versatile fabric shade or shelter, we’d be delighted to help with your application. See our dedicated funding section on our education page for links to funding routes including The National Lottery, which funds projects in the arts, sport, heritage, charity, voluntary, health, education and environmental sectors.
Gallery.
Featured projects.
King’s Bastion Leisure Centre
Fabric Architecture was responsible for the design, manufacture and installation of three bespoke canopies for a new development in the heart of Gibraltar.
NEXT Generation Shelter
NEXT generation shelter - NEXT’s Head Office in Leicester commissioned a fabulous new nursery for their families.
North Durham Academy Mistral Hypar
The Mistral hypar is still one of our most popular Signature Structures and a very cost effective way of introducing shade.
Mercado Park
Mercado Park has been transformed into a family friendly fun park with a Fabric Architecture Bandshell canopy.
Superbowl XXXIX
Jacksonville hosted Superbowl XXXIX in 2005. To help fans navigate the city, they set up a series of our fabric structure designs.
Elizabeth Square
We recommended a fabric canopy for Elizabeth Square from our ‘ready to install’ Signature Structure called the Sirocco.
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre
Our award-winning “Pagoda” tensile structures were used to create shaded walkways linking buildings at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Pensacola Naval Air Station commissioned us to create a landmark memorial tensile structure based on three diverging forms in flight.
Hideaway Park
Hideaway Park is a well-loved holiday destination. Several fabric structures were required to provide year-round shelter.
Chester Racecourse Entrance Canopy
Fabric Architecture have in record time designed engineered fabricated and installed two new entrance canopies ahead of the Boodles May Festival at Chester Racecourse.