Tensioned shading systems: Application, benefits and design

A well-designed sun control and shading system can significantly reduce a building's need for heating and cooling while also enhancing the interiors' natural lighting. One often overlooked solution in this category is tensioned shading. With the development of strong, long-lasting architectural fabrics and hardware, these devices now offer the opportunity to create striking design elements that can span entire buildings or stretch across large expanses of glazing.

Tensioned Shading Systems: Application, Benefits and Design Considerations highlights the importance of shading in modern architecture. In particular, we take a close look at tensioned shading systems, which blend dependable functionality with beautiful aesthetics and maximum design flexibility. The option of completely customised designs for complex installations can make buildings more efficient and present a marketable differentiator that can help attract buyers and tenants.

Horiso is a distributor of technical shading systems by Guthrie Douglas, the global leader in automated retractable shading systems for extraordinary spaces. Horiso collaborate with architects and design teams as early in the process as possible, to specify an interior or exterior shading system specific to your project, that will disappear into its surroundings when not in use, harnessing the power of light and shade as positive architectural features.

• A tensioned shade system is both lightweight and flexible, allowing for the creation of unusual geometric shapes that look stunning in natural or artificial light.
• Installing tensioned shading systems on the building facade gives designers and architects the chance to create a striking architectural facade element. Completely customised designs can make buildings more desirable and present a marketable differentiator that can help attract buyers and tenants.