Fabric facade for sustainable architecture – passive cooling and active air purification

A fabric facade is more than a visual building envelope. With our patented systems and high-performance fabrics, the facade becomes a bioclimatic envelope that reduces solar heat gain, cools the building passively and breaks down pollutants. Design freedom meets measurable energy and environmental performance – for new buildings and existing structures.

Conventional facade systems protect from weather and offer design options. Our fabric facades go further: they work with the climate. A defined air gap and purpose-developed fabrics create a second skin that rejects heat before it reaches the building. Cooling demand drops and indoor thermal comfort improves – without extra energy use.

The core of our systems is the patented tensioning technology. It tensions the membrane evenly and wrinkle-free – even over large areas and complex geometries. The system is maintenance-free, needs no re-tensioning over its service life and protects the fabric. Appearance and technical performance stay stable, while installation effort and life-cycle costs fall.

With our specialist fabrics (including spectracool) we achieve a documented passive cooling effect. The fabrics reflect and emit thermal radiation so the facade surface and the air space behind stay cooler than with conventional fabric facades. The result: less cooling energy, more comfortable indoor temperatures and a contribution to hotter summers – without electricity and without refrigerants.

Photocatalytic coatings on our membranes break down pollutants such as nitrogen oxides as soon as they meet light. The facade becomes an active part of air purification. In urban settings that matters: the building contributes less to overheating and actively improves the air around it.

• Energy efficiency: Solar heat gain is reduced at the outer envelope – cooling demand drops.
• Thermal comfort: More even temperatures behind the facade and less heat build-up.
• Privacy and glare control: Protection from views in, with a good view out and comfortable daylight.
• Design freedom: Sculptural forms, large surfaces, custom printing and lighting.
• Economy: Fast installation, low-maintenance construction and long-term stable performance through patented technology.
• Sustainability: Lightweight construction, recyclable materials and an active contribution to energy savings and air quality.

Whether a visionary new building or the upgrade of an existing structure: we support clients, architects and investors from the first idea through planning to installation and beyond. In-house development, engineering and manufacturing produce solutions beyond usual industry standards – technically precise, clear in design and economically considered.

In times of hotter summers and rising energy-efficiency requirements, a purely visual facade is no longer enough. Our systems turn the building envelope into an active climate-protection element: passive cooling, lower cooling energy and air purification in one. That is the difference from conventional fabric facade systems.

Would you like to know how a bioclimatic fabric facade could look and perform for your project? Contact us – we will develop the right solution.