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ACASPA 2003 First Prize: Category 4  
  Commercial Awnings  
     
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Email:		 Canvas City
Fred Tarbotton
(08) 9434 2270
canvascity@iinet.net.au		  
     
 
     
Project Description:  
  To supply and fit clear PVC blinds to an outdoor garden restaurant, to weatherproof the complete area. Clear plastic was requested to keep the architects initial idea of a very open feeling, the restaurant was also angled and shaped to let as much light in as possible.
     
     
What Was Special About This Project:  
 
  • With the restaurant being shaped and curved the way it was, the challenge in this job was to make blinds curved with banana shaped curves in the roof on each end.
  • On the side of the restaurant there had been no consideration for blinds in the initial design of the roof structure, so a builder fit more supports and beams in the roof. These blinds would drop down and be fitted to the lower wall.
  • The next problem with this was the wall below where the blinds had to be fitted to, followed a completely different line to the roof area. The blinds could only follow a straight line in the roof, they had to drop down and line up with a curved and staggered wall approximately 700MM out of line from the roof. We achieved this by finding the roof beams behind the ceiling and marking a pencil line on the ceiling to stagger the blinds to assist in following the line of the lower wall we had to fix the blinds too.
  • On this side we made every second blind, fitted each one of them, then measured and shaped the blinds that fitted in between these blinds. This was done to assist in the curve we required to pick up the bottom wall. All of these blinds zipped together.
  • The two ends of the restaurant, with the banana shaped ceiling was also a challenge especially the end of the larger drop. The drop was 3.9 metres at one end with the curve running down to 2.3 metres at the other end, this end of the restaurant was approximately 12 metres wide, a scaffold and a 12 metre wide template were used to transfer the curve onto the blinds.
  • We feel that the final result of this job was fantastic considering the size and shape of this building.
     
     
     
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NEEDLES EYE INDUSTRIES PTY LTD
UNIT 6,1904 BEACH ROAD, MALAGA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
TEL: (08) 9248 2900    FAX: (08) 9248 2901