An annual competition held by Sunbrella® and Architizer™, the Future of Shade challenges architects and designers to explore the integral role of fabric in shade and building design.
Light and shade are essential components of architecture. Sunlight can enliven a space, or it can make it unbearably hot and bright. The way architects and designers create shade for buildings, homes and public spaces transforms the way people use them.
The advent of cutting-edge technologies has enabled new building typologies. Just as steel elevators and air conditioning have changed the built environment, fabric’s versatility opens up new opportunities for aesthetically pleasing shade structures that take building design and function to a new level.
For the fourth year, Sunbrella partnered with Architizer, the largest online community of architects and designers gathered for inspiration and idea exchange, to crowdsource the latest thinking on shade innovation. The Future of Shade competition called on designers and architects to create new conceptual visions in shade design using Sunbrella fabric for three categories: building shade, wellness gardens and humanitarian. Whether you’re a designer, architect or fabricator, we hope the selection of entries presented here provides a source of inspiration for your own shade solutions.
Alberto Adolfo Fernandez Gonzalez, Carlos Benjamin Fernandez Gonzalez
Architect
AF_A
Santiago, Chile
Building Shade
Humanitarian
Wellness Garden
BUILDING SHADE
Dimitri Chaava, Stelios Psaltis, Ivane Ksnelashvili, Soso Eliava, Basil Argylopoulos
Architect
XA (X-Architecture )
London, UK
HUMANITARIAN
Daniel Zuluaga Giraldo, Iojann Restrepo Garcia, Alejandro Vargas Marulanda
Architect
Medellin, Colombia
BUILDING SHADE
Daniel Slota, Leila Reese, Anna Stadukhina
Architect
maavea-studio
Berlin-Moscow
BUILDING SHADE
Victoria Goldstein, Munger Hashim, Alireza Mamaryan, Mahsa Dehghani
Foreign Architect
VG Studio, LLC
Houston, Texas
HUMANITARIAN
Shirin Shobeiri, Zeynab Bagherian, Sara Gharavi
Student - Master of Science, Architectural Sciences and Technology
University of Tehran
Tehran, Iran
WELLNESS GARDEN
Faraneh Ghahremani, Mina Kolahkaj, Mahshid Sabri, Soheila Ghasemi, Soheil Sadegh Barati
Master of Architect Student
Iran