ABSTRACT
Sustainability has become a key element in Architecture. Besides the optimal resolution of the binomial relation between Resource Management and Quality of Life, Sustainability relates to fundamental aspects, such as Continuity and Ethical responsibility towards the past and next generations. Textile architecture uses membranes as main material for its structures and roofs, and is 100% recyclable. Textiles are used in diverse architectural projects, for instance hotels, shopping centres, airports, sportive stadiums, and in the shadowing of streets. Nowadays, tensile shade structures are often used in urban rehabilitation and renewal projects, designed for urban degraded and neglected spaces, in North American cities and in other parts of the world. These projects give the citizen new spaces, who regains his right to the city and its spaces, and recuperates interacting zones fundamental to the community.
