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with a fabric skin fabricated and installed
by FabriTec Structures, Allianz Field has a
dynamic facade that appears to float above
its base and shimmers in the daytime
and glows at night. A true collaboration
between architect, construction
management and fabric makers/installers,
Allianz Field stakes its claim to a new
formula of a familiar material, PTFE
glass fiber fabric.
"Typical PTFE fabric that has been used
since the 1970s has a tight weave of glass
yarns to give it structural strength, with a
visual light transmission [VLT] in the 12
percent range," says Martin Augustyniak,
senior associate at Walter P Moore. "Our
approach [for Allianz Field] was to create
a more luminous, translucent fabric by
opening up the weave into a mesh (to
create tiny 'windows') to allow more light
transmission and to add silver pigment to
the scrim. To protect the glass yarns, both
surfaces of the glass scrim were laminated
with a thin sheet of clear PTFE to create
a strong structural assembly and a VLT
of 24 percent."
FabriTec's executive vice president, Tom
Wuerch, says the new fabric, Illuminate 28
from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics,
was a happy collaboration between all of
the project partners. "Using a combination
of the initial assumed physical properties
[of the new untested product] from SaintGobain, along with historical data from
similar PTFE mesh and laminate materials
from past projects, we knew the material
was going to be much stiffer and less
forgiving than standard PTFE membrane.
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