TYVEK

My studio project this semester is the Charlottesville City (Farmers') Market,

so I want to explore a softer material that is waterproof/resistant and provides shade

as a potential for pop up canopies.

Emily and I got our hands on some Tyvek by buying painter's coveralls at Lowe's and

cutting off the sleeves. Our inside Tyvek source will be back in town in a few days and hopefully we'll be able to try some different types. What we have seems to fold well and hold a crease though!

We also downloaded copious amounts of information about agricultural shade materials from Lucia Phinney's brain.

And found some cool Tyvek projects on the web:

http://www2.dupont.com/Tyvek/en_US/index.html

http://tarptent.com/sublite.html#specs

http://bestbeachtents.com/pop-up-beach-tent/genji-sports-pop-up-beach-shelter

http://tyvek-blog.materialconcepts.com/