Architectural Fabrics for Gardens, Green Walls, and Lightweight Building
For many years I contributed to the excellent magazine: Fabric Architecture—published by the Advanced Textile Association. I covered fabric application from the American University of Beirut (by VJAA architects) to green walls in Vancouver and the surprising histories of the world’s leading textile companies, one of which dates back to creating the mirrors for Versailles.
Here is a link to several of my articles.
Jakob rope is an excellent product for green walls and tensile structures. It was originally created for industrial cables and transportation. I covered this product as applied a large outdoor park and green wall structure in Zurich.
Weaving willows and other plant materials is an ancient tradition in building that anticipates tensile fabric tents, canopies and metal meshes today.
Here is a link to several of my fabric architecture articles.
Frank Edgerton Martin 