​Who is GuildWorks?
​We are a full service design, specification, fabrication and installation design-build studio. Whether you already have a design in mind or are seeking a full-scale design-build partner, GuildWorks can bring your visions to life. We provide start to finish services for both permanent and temporary structures, making the entire design-build-install process seamless for architects, builders, and owners.

Why Tensile Fabric Structures?
​We are passionate about tensile fabric structures because the elegant geometries of tension fabric architecture allow you to:

• Create more shelter with fewer resources than any other technique.
• Accomplish multiple objectives such as providing shade or weather protection, creating an enclosure, a divider, a container, a passage, or even bridging indoor and outdoor settings. 
• Reduce heat island effects, collect water, filter pollution, regulate temperature and light, and provide ample airflow and space. 
• Add visual branding to your designs.
• Turn space into place.

What does GuildWorks do?
​Guildworks specializes in ‘Architecture of the Air’ tensile architectural structures and fabric-formed environments.
We pride ourselves on creating integrative design with new and existing buildings. We minimize the need for structural hardware to save on material and labor costs.
We reimagine and reinvent public spaces with a biophilic approach that connects people to nature.

Our services include: 

• Conceptual Design
• Design Development
• Construction Documents
• Project Management
• Production & Fabrication
• Installation
• Project Maintenance
  

We’re an award-winning design-build firm with recognition for multiple designs and installations. ​

​Why Choose GuildWorks?
​Our knowledge and history of building tensile structures has led us to become a leader in permanent tensile construction. 

We differentiate ourselves by providing start to finish services rather than limiting our expertise to only one aspect of a project. 

We outpace other providers in the marketplace with our new parametric interlinking of design and engineering and the mastery of our own FEM engineering software. 

​How do we work together?

• We approach your design from a human-centered perspective: how can we make this functional, beautiful, and sustainable? This is followed by interpreting and defining our findings to ideate and determine what we are going to build. 
• Creating a prototype and developing how this model will be built is followed with extensive testing, research, and development to prove and improve your design.
• We run specialized design and FEM engineering software to design form, aesthetics, shape stability, expected load forces, and structural requirements for our permanent pieces. 
• Our 40'x11' CNC cutting table and a Simpla, EMF fabric welding machine fulfill all of our production needs with increased efficiency, supporting GuildWorks’ hallmark quality control and superior products.
• The GuildWorks’ Installation Team is knowledgeable, skilled and able to install large scale work using structural techniques that have never been done before.
• Maintenance - we support you with the complete life cycle of your installation by providing ongoing maintenance packages to keep your project in great shape and ensure longevity.

Innovation is in our DNA, we bring our one-of-a kind designs to enliven your vision and enhance your project.

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​Why Now?
Prior to the pandemic, there was an increased interest in biophilic design and outdoor solutions for urban branding and revitalization projects. Cities, developers, communities and even school districts are now addressing the dangers of COVID-19 and the effects of global warming. 

A recent study in June 2020 conducted by the Global Cities program of the University of São Paulo (USP) carried out the research Emoções Momentâneas (lit. Momentary Emotions) to measure how the pandemic was changing the relationship of individuals with public spaces in São Paulo. 86% of the surveyed people wanted to spend time in green environments such as parks and squares. Architect, Deize Sanches, who was involved in the research says there is “...a desire to see the potential of green spaces to improve the quality of life in a way that was not being experienced before the pandemic." 

We are seeing a three-fold increased demand for beautiful, functional, outdoor spaces that not only provide shelter from the elements but also offer safe places with plenty of air flow and space for physical distancing.

GuildWorks has bridged intuition,
​engineering, originality and experience.

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