What Are Denvelops Architectural Hybrid Textiles?
Denvelops architectural hybrid textiles are an innovative, creative, and sophisticated solution designed for facades, sunscreens, pergolas, walls, and ceilings. These textiles can be either rigid or flexible, offering static or kinetic options finished with metals, ceramics, woods, and other materials. The system is strong, precisely manufactured, and installed quickly, making it a standout choice in architectural design. At its core, hybrid textiles combine the best features of curtain wall facades and metal mesh textiles, creating a new architectural approach that’s both practical and visually striking.
Main Benefits of Hybrid Textiles
Why choose Denvelops hybrid textiles? Here’s a quick rundown of the key benefits:
- 100% off-site production, ensuring quality control and efficiency
- Fully customizable to fit any design or project need
- Options for 100% rigid or 100% flexible materials
- Strong attachments between vertical steel plates or flexible steel cables and free-shape horizontal connectors
- Integration of diverse materials like ceramics, woods, steels, HPL, glass, stones, leather, and UPB
- Inspired by Lean Construction philosophy, promoting sustainability through reduction, recovery, and recycling
- Lightweight and easy to maintain, perfect for indoor and outdoor applications
- Fast and dry installation system, adaptable to small formats or large folded frames up to 50 square meters
- Technical assistance available throughout the project
- Optional functionalities such as illumination, kinetic finishes, domotic applications, photovoltaic panel integration, and ventilated facades with built-in insulation
Customization and Infinite Variations
One of the coolest things about Denvelops hybrid textiles is the sheer variety you can create. Thanks to their innovative SNAP attachment system, designers can safely integrate all kinds of materials—ceramics, stone, wood, metal, leather, and more—into lightweight cladding walls. Whether it’s a sleek modern look or something more rustic, the possibilities are endless. The new MODELS section showcases Hybrid Ceramics Textiles, Hybrid Stone Textiles, Hybrid Wood Textiles, and Hybrid Metal Textiles, sparking inspiration for your next design adventure. Plus, downloading their catalogue gives a great sense of what can be achieved by mixing just a few simple components.
Outdoor and Indoor Applications
Hybrid textiles aren’t just versatile in design—they’re also incredibly practical. Their lightness and simplicity make them ideal for both outdoor and indoor projects. They can be produced in very long and wide formats, which means they fit perfectly in a variety of architectural contexts. Whether it’s a large facade or an intricate interior lattice, these textiles offer precise production, quick installation, and easy maintenance. It’s a solution that balances aesthetics with functionality, making it a favorite among architects and builders alike.
Kinetic Facades and Pergolas
Here’s where things get really interesting: Denvelops offers kinetic facades and pergolas that literally move with the wind. By tweaking the attachment between connectors and wires, tiles can be free-attached to “dance” in the breeze. This isn’t just a cool visual effect—it’s a whole new way to think about building envelopes. And the best part? These kinetic projects are produced off-site and installed in large formats quickly and efficiently, combining innovation with practicality.
Project Impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – through innovative architectural solutions
- SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities – by promoting sustainable building practices
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production – via reduction, recovery, and recycling of materials
- SDG 13: Climate Action – by reducing building energy consumption with eco-friendly solutions
- SDG 15: Life on Land – through sustainable sourcing and use of natural materials
Latest Innovations and Projects
Denvelops keeps pushing the boundaries with exciting new projects and technologies. Recent highlights include the “Interior Lattice with Stainless Steel Hybrid Textiles,” which explores fresh design languages inspired by logos and values. Another milestone is the first project featuring Hybrid Glazed Ceramic Textiles, proving that glazed and thin tiles can now be integrated seamlessly. The new Media Mesh Hybrid Textiles introduce a universal lighting system that adds a playful dimension of light and color to architecture at a low cost. And for tech enthusiasts, the Denvelops Design Plugin—developed in collaboration with Seedstudio—makes designing with hybrid textiles easier and more efficient than ever. These innovations show how Denvelops continues to blend creativity, technology, and sustainability in architectural textiles.
