Google’s headquarters, referred to as the Googleplex, in Sunnyvale, Calif., uses SEFAR Architecture’s TENARA Fabric to shade the central plaza of a recent campus expansion—and the fabric has completely transformed the newly-outfitted space.
The plaza features a large curved steel trellis, with several hundred triangles of TENARA Fabric. Designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates and engineered by Thornton Tomasetti, the project required nine distinct triangle shapes to fit within the steel geometry. Each triangle had to be within 1.5 inches of the connector hubs when fully tensioned.