Textile Architecture

There is a new strong trend in the interior design field, Textile Architecture.

In a dynamic and time demanding world, traditional construction and modification of interior spaces is having an evolution towards versatile, lighter and cheaper materials. Furthermore, those materials are better if personalized on-demand.

To achieve these though specifications, printing technicians developed a technique called sublimation. Sublimation consist in a dying process of transference of ink from one medium to another by means of evaporation, being the reception material a polyester fabric. What this means in practical words is that you only need white fabric and the system can print on it any image at any size. No fabric of different color needed.

Polyester fabrics used in architecture nowadays have a width of 3.20 meter, but in Germany, a company is developing a version 7 meters wide to cover “architectural scale” spaces.

For architects and interior-exhibition designers, the system offers practicality not seen before. In less than half an hour it is possible to change the look of an entire room, what is great for stores with to obligation of seasonal updates.

The fabric by itself, besides from its limitless possibilities for printing, allows enough flexibility to cover metallic or wood frames to obtain dividing panels of any given size without the burdensome and weight of brick and mortar construction.

In México, one of the leader developers is Grupo Display, a group of designer who worked together with a printing company to obtain a high quality process that offers the best possible definition in the printing material.