2017 Archive : TENT FOR SALON VOLTERRA

Project Details

Fabric 1

Précontraint 1002 Fluotop T2
Producer: Ferrari S.A.
Supplier: Ferrari S.A.

Engineer Name 1
SALVADOR MANDUJANO

Engineer Company 1
CALCULO Y DISEÑO ESTRUCTURAL

Design Name
HECTOR MENDOZA URIBE

Design Company
CARPAS Y LONAS EL CARRUSEL

Architect Name
ANTONIO VAZQUEZ

Architect Company
MICHEAS ARQUITECTOS.

Fabrication Name
VICTOR HUGO MENDOZA URIBE

Fabrication Company
CARPAS Y LONAS EL CARRUSEL

Project Manager Name
HECTOR MENDOZA URIBE

Project Manager Company
CARPAS Y LONAS EL CARRUSEL

Installation Name
VICTOR HUGO MENDOZA URIBE

Installation Company
CARPAS Y LONAS EL CARRUSEL

Please describe the project specifications

We were invited by the office "Micheas Arquitectos" to design a tent to cover a big patio for the "Salon Volterra" that would be constructed in an exclusive wooded area in the suburbs of the Mexico City.

What was the purpose of this project? What did the client request?

The architect of the project together with the client were looking to cover the principal area of the hall with a big tent that was joining to the whole contour designed and constructed specifically for social events.

What is unique or complex about the project?

We project a big tent of four masts which structural support they would be two metallic arches to offer a totally free area of elements and to take advantage in a cleaner way of the covered area. For limited of the area and characteristics of location we design a special system for the assembly, integrating four electrical winches in each mast to help in the assembly during the hoisting of the tent. We handle a system of laceline that allows us a better control of the managing of the materials in three sections that one divides of the big tent.

What were the results of the project?

We manage with the realized project to cover successful for what the client was looking, managing to integrate the big tent to the whole architectural project. Where it is necessary to highlight that the client has other two lounges and his sales department him brings that the one that more demands has had in the pre-sale of the space has been "Salon Volterra" for what this one offers visually, since there was achieved by the design an interesting pace of the union and contrast of the linens and does the covered beautiful space during the day and the night.

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