PVC will be Key Material for the Construction of the National Performance Centre for Sport (Scotland)

There is still time to book your place at this year’s SmartBuild: Sustainable Design & Construction Using Vinyl Products event being hosted by BRE and also in conjunction with VinylPlus. SmartBuild will showcase some of the design and cost benefits of specifying PVC products in construction projects. The event will feature a host of speakers including aspects of novel designs involving Vinyl products from Lance Rowell of Architen Landrell, the architectural organisation responsible for buildings such as the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park and the London Aquatics Centre used in the Olympics. To highlight these aspects of architectural design, we have highlighted below some of the case studies from Architen Landrell that have utilised Vinyl products for both novel and striking designs.

Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion

The Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion project was undertaken by Zaha Hadid of Architen Landrell with the aim of creating a mobile art pavilion which would house work by some of the world’s most acclaimed modern artists. Initially installed in Hong Kong, its portable design was aimed at allowing the structure to be erected at various other sites over a two year period. Architen Landrell used their tensile membrane expertise to design a PVC polyester roof broken up with ETFE foil roof lights to deliver this striking design.
More information can be found at: http://www.architen.com/projects/chanel-mobile-art-pavilion/

Soundform Mobile Acoustic Performance Area

The Soundform mobile acoustic performance area was a project created by Soundforms Plc, with Architen Landrell supplying a PVC polyester tensile fabric skin to cover the structure. The idea was to create a portable acoustic stage that could be placed in any environment without having an effect on the acoustics produced on said stage. An idea whose inception was the result of world famous conductor Mark Stephenson, he came together with Arup Acoustics and ES Global for the initial design, with Architen Landrell’s experience then drawn on to help deliver the final design and finished product. Its artistic design provides enhanced aesthetics as well as improved acoustics.
More information can be found at: http://www.architen.com/projects/soundforms/ 

St. George’s Park: National Football Centre

St. George’s Park national football centre is a new 105m official training base for 24 England Football Teams. Working with Red Box Design Group, Architen Landrell provided the design, manufacture and installation of the centre, which covers a full size football pitch. The intuitive use of PVC Glass (a glass fibre weave with a PVC coating) allowed the Centre to save costs on the need for additional steel support structures, due to PVC’s lightweight nature; additional cost savings were also made, owing again to PVC’s lightweight structure and its cost-effective ability to span large spaces. More information can be found at: http://www.architen.com/projects/st-georges-park-national-football-centre/

National Performance Centre for Sport

The National Performance Centre for Sport is a structure designed to house multi-discipline sports grounds. Construction is currently underway for this project, which is located at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. The structure involves the use of 17 primary steel arches to provide shaping for a series of 16 PVC polyester membrane bays. 
More information can be found at: http://www.architen.com/2015/09/ala-action-npcs-tensile-fabric-roof-membrane/