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Sefar AG fabric&weather Töberstrasse 4 2021-01-21 9425 Thal Switzerland 250 highly flexible sun shades Phone +41 71 898 57 00 for pilgrims in Medina [email protected] www.sefararchitecture.com Haram Piazza (SA) [FactBox] Fabric SEFAR® Architecture PTFE Fabric Size/Quantity 250 umbrellas, 25.5 x 25.5 m, shaded area of 143’000 m2 Project/Location Haram Piazza, Saudi Arabia (SA) Construction type Umbreallas Architect SL-Rasch GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE) Umbrella construction Liebherr, Biberach an der Riss (DE) General Contractor SBG – Saudi Binladin Group, Saudi Arabia (SA) Assembly/Implementation Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, Japan (JP) [ProjectInfo] Each year,millions of pilgrims flock to the flexibility, colorfastness, fire resistance, as mosque in Medina al-Munawwarah. In well as effective shading and appropriate recent years, the traditional time of pilgrim- light transmission. The extra tough PTFE age has been in the cooler fall and winter fabric developed by Sefar especially for months. This time frame is changing grad- this huge project could not remain pure ually, however. According to the lunar cal- white owing to the intensity of the light endar, the time of pilgrimage is returning to since the strong transmission would have the extremely hot summer months, making blinded people beneath the sunshade. For a sunshade absolutely essential. this reason, the customer chose a sand- It was clear from the beginning that only colored fabric. In addition, oriental patterns PTFE fabric would be able to meet the ex- made from blue PTFE-ribbons should be ceptional situational demands. Other ma- applied to the underside of the umbrella. terials would not provide full protection 250 umbrellas, each one with a surface from the aggressive UV radiation or satis- area of 25.5 x 25.5 m (when open) and 15 fy the stringent standards required by the meters high, have been installed. customer. In addition to UV-stability, the The outcome of this combination: by material had to have an extremely high ten- shading with PTFE fabric, the ambient sile strength owing to wind load, maximum temperature is reduced by at least 8 °C. ARCHITECTURE.

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