Tensile mesh streamlines Dublin airport
Fabric Architecture | May 2011
Each year, 15 million passengers will traverse Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 (T2), visiting Ireland’s capitol for tourism or business, and the Dublin Airport Authority wanted a striking modern statement in the T2 design. Architects Pascall + Watson of Dublin created an airy, modern space with a white ceiling, natural light, soaring fan-shaped vaults and 26,100m2 of tensile mesh ceiling panels. Fabric Architecture Ltd., Gloucestershire, England, developed ArchiClad, a modular and flexible self-tensioning frame system, to meet the project’s unique requirements.
The tensioned panels had to be lightweight, easy to install and easy to remove for maintenance. The terminal’s main trusses articulate the geometry of the ceilings and are central to lighting and service access, so panels had to be offset from the trusses. Each panel had to be faceted on both its width and length to create the terminal’s organic shape. Fabric Architecture rose to the task, elevating the ceiling panels and the T2 space into an ultra-modern art gallery in which the traveler is sculpture.
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Fabric Architecture Ltd. pre-fabricated the mesh ceiling panels in numbered kits and installed the ArchiClad modules with a linking system that allows self-regulation of each panel to maintain the design’s lines. Photo courtesy: Fabric architecture Ltd. -
Ceiling detail. Photo courtesy: Fabric architecture Ltd.
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