firm Woods Bagot who was familiar with the material from a number of projects throughout the United States as well as Mace Engineering. Woods Bagot was working with the Dubai World Trade Center on a project to create a new exhibition space. Part of this project involved the space between the train station and the new exhibition space. This space would not only need to capture the imagination of crowds enter- ing the exhibition space, but it also needed to shade users from the harsh desert sun. Woods Bagot and Mace had struggled to find a per - manent material to serve as a canopy for the space; they built three test structures using different materials, but none of the three traditional shading methods could stand up to the desert sun and wind. Based on their previous work, the teams decided to use Kaynes maile as the shading material for the project. Horsham traveled to Dubai and began working with the teams to fit the material to the specific designs necessary for the project. It soon became clear that Kaynes maile was able to outperform the other ma- terials due to its unique design and construction. Its seamless design allowed the material to respond to wind force smoothly as the rings are able to move independently from one another. This also means that no one area of the canopy is subject to more constant force than another. In addition, Kaynes maile has unique shading properties that made it the perfect material for the project. The material’s three dimensional
about the strength of each assembled link. With quality control as- sured, Horsham began experimenting with different materials to build the links with. Because of his previous work, he originally intended to use this new process and material in the fashion and costuming industry. Developing the world’s first liquid state assembly process allowed Horsham to develop his mail with modern materials such as polycarbonate, which has a high strength to weight ratio and could give the material applications in the architecture and engineering fields. Once Horsham and his team focused on the architecture and engineer- ing markets, the material applications of Kaynemaile soon became evident. After Kaynes maile became an established company in 2006, their lightweight polycarbonate mesh soon began to feature in art in- stallations and architectural designs. Kaynemaile also poses significant advantages from an environmental perspective. Unlike other materi- als, Kaynemaile is fully recyclable and is created using a “nil-waste” process. Due to this and other structural advantages, Kaynemaile is being used in projects across the world. A few years ago, the Kaynemaile team was approached by architecture
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