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General information

  • Home page
    www.chemfab.com
  • Location address
    Shanghai, China
  • Location country
    China
  • Name of the client/building owner
    Shanghai Expo Land Holding Co., LTD
  • Function of building
    Public spaces
  • Degree of enclosure
    Open structure
  • Number of layers
    mono-layer
  • Type of application of the membrane
    covering
  • Primary function of the tensile structure
    • Rain protection

Description

The Expo Boulevard is a 1km long channel which is designed to connect the entrances of major pavilions of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Park and also the elevated pedestrian walkway. Consisting of 2 floors underground and 2 floors above the ground the Boulevard is a large-scale, multi-functional combination of transportation, commercial activities, catering, entertainment and exhibition services. The six 40m high horn-shaped structures
of the "Sunny Valleys" divert sunlight into underground levels of the Expo Boulevard and collect rainwater for use after recycling. In these six valleys there are about 10000 joints and every joint has a different angle and position. So the construction has to be very precise.
Saint Gobain Performance Plastics supplied more than 100.000m2 PTFE Architectural Membrane for the roofing tensile membrane structure covering the whole Boulevard to create an innovative, spectacular spatial visual effect. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is supplying FEP and PFA for welding PTFE fabric membranes and ETFE for film membrane construction.
It’s scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009. The Expo Boulevard project is not only a landmark project in the Expo district, but will also be a city landscape architecture of Shanghai in the future.

Description of the environmental conditions

Material of the cover

  • Cable-net/Fabric/Hybrid/Foil
    Fabric
  • Type (code)
    V
  • Material Fabric/Foil
    Glasfabric
  • Material coating
    PTFE

Main dimensions and form

  • Covered surface (m2)
    70000
  • Maximum height (m)
    40
  • Total length (m)
    1000
  • Form single element
    Anticlastic

Duration of use

  • Temporary or permanent structure
    Permanent
  • Convertible or mobile
    Convertible

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