Background of Flexiiform's stretch canvas canopy design for Vinfast car showroom
Overcoming nearly 1,000 entries from 90 different countries, Flexiiform was honored to be in the Top 50 entries winning the Consolation award in the competition. Global VinFast Showroom design 2021.
This is a design combined with expertise Membrane Structure of Flexiiform along with the architectural designs of the showroom to create an impressive display space for special product lines from the Vinfast brand - the pioneering brand for self-driving electric vehicles in Vietnam. Specifically, Flexiiform has applied stretch tarpaulin roofs for car showrooms to the Vinfast showroom design concept.
VinFast aims to start selling electric cars globally by the end of 2021. They hope to build a series of showrooms in strategic markets to showcase their new electric car line and customer service.
In addition, Vinfast is also considering some high-traffic areas to build modern showrooms to introduce their high-class products. And they are looking forward to finding modern showroom designs that truly demonstrate the class of Vietnam's pioneering brand in combining techniques and technology into products.
Flexiiform's Vinfast car showroom stretch canvas roof idea
“A house must have a roof” – The same goes for a showroom. The roofing category in showrooms also has many important meanings, especially in big brand car showrooms. Grasping that factor, with experience in creating stretch canvas, the Flexiiform design team came up with an idea for an Oval-shaped stretch canvas canopy for Vinfast car showrooms. Tensile Fabric structure, combining an elegant but no less luxurious dome-shaped glass cladding plan.
With a lightweight material structure, full of flexibility in shaping, Flexiiform has the confidence to create symbolic architecture for the Vinfast showroom, while raising the level of class for the Vietnamese brand.
Meaning of Flexiiform's stretch canvas roof design for Vinfast car showroom
1. Concepts
Referring to Vinfast - the automobile brand with the only self-driving electric car line in Vietnam, when starting to come up with concept ideas for the showroom, Flexiiform's design team used images oval moving ring in atom symbols and images sun to take the lead. Because electricity appears, helping society develop more and more modernly, the sun has the meaning of origin and spread, like the image of Vinfast - which has been a pioneering brand in strongly inspiring people. millions of people around the globe about the image of a modern, dynamic, creative, intellectual and intelligent Vietnam.
2. Form
Based on the concept image, Flexiiform chooses a form-based design oval shape For showrooms, in addition to the special morphological element and the advantage of "cheat" the layout area, the oval shape will help the showroom circulate to catch the wind more smoothly and regularly, making the structure of the showroom more stable than other showrooms. other structural forms such as round or rectangular shape under the influence of weather.
3. Highlight the central element
Choosing the image of a round sun as the ceiling placed in the middle of the showroom's oval shape helps highlight Vinfast's central product - which is the line of smart self-driving electric cars level 3 - 4 with 30 smart features. , as a highlight for the showroom theme. Flexiiform uses Translucent stretch membrane ceiling for this area, to create a strong effect for the key product unit at this Vinfast showroom.
4. Application of environmentally friendly technology and materials
Using technology consistent with Vinfast's product development philosophy: lightweight material structure, technology application and environmental friendliness.
Membrane structure – a groundbreaking form of material structure light materials industry has participated in many famous projects around the world such as Water Cube, Pacific Showcase, Millennium Dome,... creating a reputation for the Architecture - Construction industry.
Thanks to the research and technology application calculating the stress between the reinforced canvas material and the steel frame and specific connection structures, it is possible to create absolutely any form in architecture without being limited by the load-bearing structure, thereby creating items or any permanent construction. One of the outstanding advantages of this type of structure is that environmental friendliness thanks to quick construction and installation operations, and special toughened tarpaulin material that is processed over layers TiO2 layer - Helps easily carry dirt to the outside environment, creating fertilizer compounds that make the natural environment lush. Combining the above factors, Flexiiform decided to apply a car showroom stretch canvas roof to a design of this magnitude for Vinfast, with the hope of helping the country's architecture make its mark on the world design map. gender.
Components of the stretch canvas roof system for Vinfast car showroom
Double skin – To create sturdiness and minimum steel frame system for the showroom, Flexiiform uses 2 layers of roof. The outer roof is covered with PVDF for waterproofing and sun protection. The false ceiling is a high layer of translucent fabric to allow light (hidden between the two layers) to pass through. This double-skin roof also cuts down on energy waste from the difference between inside and outside temperatures.
Structural frame – To create a stable steel frame structure for the car showroom stretch canvas roof system and ceiling system, Flexiiform uses 2 oval frame rings connected by small steel pipes that evenly distribute the 2 frame rings, to maximize Used to create a canopy roof system for the lobby. In addition, to increase the shape and connection stability, Flexiiform also arranges a frame system with a slight curvature to support the load-bearing part of the canvas roof, and that is also the base frame system of the pillar frame system. inside the showroom.
Cable to pull down – Additionally, to strengthen the frame and help create the pull-down ceiling concept, we used tension cables to store the form. From the above points, we can minimize the number of columns used to support the roof. Overall, 6 columns are being used to divide the structure evenly and reasonably distribute, focusing on stability, aesthetics and ventilation for the interior space.
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