I looked at the fabric surrounding one of the columns for my detail. It is an interesting detail because it is simple but complex to figure out to end up simple. There was much experimentation to reach the final detail design. I wanted to push the fabric out while clamping the supporting structure onto the column. Then there needed to be an easy way to attach the fabric to the steel frame without sewing the fabric on the spot.
Final Detail drawings:
Extract from the report, not to scale here.
I have made a detail model of how the fabric will be attached to the steel frame and stretched the fabric to see how it behaves, especially in the curves.
As you can see in the video, the fabric behaves well in the curves and doesn't need to be attached separately. This confirmed my thoughts about the detail and proves that it works to do it like that.
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