FlexFacades by Structurflex engineered, fabricated, and installed the fins, decorative facade cladding screen system on the brand new, state-of-the-art Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CONRAC) at the San Antonio International Airport. Fentress Architects engaged our team to provide a value-engineered alternative to the originally designed metal facade fins and screens. We provided significant cost savings by […]
The Power & Light Entertainment District in downtown Kansas City, Missouri is home to three Structurflex projects: the KC Live! Roof, Elements Courtyard canopy, and the P&L District towers facade. For the the roof over the outdoor KC Live! entertainment venue, Structurflex designed and developed the first single-layer ETFE tension membrane structure in North America. […]
Daily’s Place is a two-pronged project that consists of an amphitheater and an indoor football practice field, both connected to EverBank Field football stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. The first phase is the Daily’s Place “flex field,” a 94,000 square-foot indoor practice area for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team. The flex field includes a regulation-sized football […]
Wings Over Water is a 30-foot kinetic sculpture at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The sculpture is integrated with the 24-foot by 62-foot outdoor fountain in front of the Convention Center, featuring an armature and hydraulic drive shaft that cause two giant wings to beat “feathers” made of coated PES mesh. […]
To provide continuity between hospital campus buildings and make the best use of what would otherwise have been dead space, Structurflex designed and fabricated a tensile mesh canopy that links the existing garage and the new medical facility. Structurflex also provided an undulating tensile mesh screening system to screen views from the new medical facility […]
The George is a luxury apartment complex in downtown Atlanta with an adjacent parking garage. To provide residents – and downtown visitors – with visual interest, Structurflex designed, fabricated, and installed a coated PES mesh tensile facade. The tensile mesh provides an economic alternative to traditional screening, as well as reducing solar gain while allowing […]
The four-story podium parking garage of luxury apartment building Miami Midtown 5 features a FlexFacade screening system made up of a tensile mesh, custom structural steel/standoffs, and aluminum extrusions. The flexibility of the tensile mesh allows for freedom of form and shapes in the design and made it possible for both flat and custom curved […]
The five-story, 60’s era West Hills Medical Office Building in Los Angeles was due for an exterior facelift. A complete exterior renovation by Michael W. Folonis Architects revealed that water infiltration had caused structural damage to the existing horizontal plaster awnings; removing them was a costly process that consumed much of the project budget. This […]
An architectural façade screening system on all four sides of the seven-story Ponce City Market parking structure transforms it from an eyesore to a point of visual interest. The tensile mesh façade is composed of a metallic silver coated PES mesh that costs a fraction of metal mesh or perforated metal, but has the look, […]
THE CHALLENGE – CREATE A PARKING GARAGE FACADE WITH A SAILING THEME Chicago’s Northwestern University was constructing a $35 million lakeside sailing and visitor center, topped with a two-story car parking facility. To conceal the vehicles within the elevated garage, two of the walls were tinted glass. For the remaining sides, the design brief called […]
