Tensile Structures for Outdoor Spaces

Start Date

12/03/2024

End Date

12/03/2024

Description

This course supports landscape architects in integrating weather-protective covered outdoor spaces using fabrics and membranes into projects of different typologies. The course discusses various types of fabric structures and reviews applications, fabric shaping, and materials.

Weather-protective covered outdoor spaces provide various health benefits to users, such as lowering average temperature, UV protection, and elevating outdoor space accessibility. Tensile structures elevate outdoor space value while having a remarkably low carbon footprint compared to traditional building methods. This reduced environmental impact by design and material innovations make fabric structures a compelling choice for landscape architects.

Location

Springfield, MA

Distance Learning

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Design-Build
Parks & Recreation
Sustainable Development & Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

Understand the growing need for outdoor spaces to be weather-protected and the advantages of choosing fabric structures with a low carbon footprint.

Identify different types of fabric structures.

Learn various types of architectural fabric and membrane materials and their applications.
Understand the process for designing and implementing a fabric structure into a landscape architecture project.

Instructors

Olivia Guethling

Course Codes

Provider

GuildWorks

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