Enhance Your Building with Architectural Fabric Awnings & Facades
Elevate the aesthetics and functionality of your building with tensile membrane awnings and façades. These lightweight, durable, and versatile architectural facade systems combine striking design with energy-efficient performance, making them an ideal choice for modern building envelopes.
MakMax Australia specialises in high-performance tensile membrane solutions, offering custom-designed architectural facade systems and awnings to enhance both form and function. Whether you’re designing a stadium, commercial façade, hotel atrium, or public space, our innovative fabric structures deliver stunning visual impact with practical benefits.

Fabric Façades – A Smart & Sustainable Architectural Solution
A fabric building façade is more than just a design feature—it’s an energy-efficient and cost-effective way to transform any structure. Whether it’s an eye-catching stadium exterior, a dynamic commercial façade, or an elegant solution for enclosing car parks and warehouses, fabric façades offer superior solar control and aesthetic appeal.
- Thermal Efficiency – PVC mesh façades and PTFE mesh façades help regulate indoor temperatures by reflecting or absorbing solar energy, reducing heat buildup while allowing natural light to filter through.
- Lightweight & Durable – Architectural fabric façades offer large-scale coverage with minimal structural support, making them ideal for stadiums, commercial buildings, and public spaces.
- Versatile Applications – From transforming concrete car parks into modern architectural features to enclosing bridge undersides (soffits) for a cleaner aesthetic and improved sound absorption, tensile membrane façades provide innovative solutions for a variety of structures.

Architectural Awnings – Stylish Shade & Weather Protection
Tensile membrane awnings create comfortable, shaded spaces while enhancing a building’s architectural appeal. These custom-designed awnings provide superior strength and stability, especially for cantilever applications.
- Extend Usable Space – Create inviting outdoor areas for hotels, restaurants, cafés, schools, and commercial buildings.
- Customisable Design – Incorporate unique geometries and varied translucency fabrics to achieve both aesthetic and functional goals.
- Lightweight & Strong – Architectural awnings offer exceptional durability while maintaining a sleek and modern appearance

Fabric Interiors, Ceilings & Soffits
Tensile membranes are an excellent solution for both indoor and outdoor ceiling applications. From sound-absorbing fabric ceilings in auditoriums and aquatic centres to membrane soffits that conceal structural elements under bridges, overpasses, and building entrances, these versatile fabric solutions enhance both aesthetics and functionality.
- Visual Appeal – Used in outdoor spaces, membrane soffits or ceilings can conceal drainage systems, support beams, or concrete formwork, improving visual appeal while also providing sound absorption benefits for pedestrian-friendly environments.
- Optimised Acoustics – Fabric ceilings help reduce echo and noise distortion, making them ideal for indoor aquatic centres, libraries, and performance spaces.
Fabric Facade Case Study
JCU Ideas Lab Facade
The JCU Ideas Lab Facade is a great example of modern building design incorporating an architectural membrane façade
Membrane Awning Case Study
Barker College Rosewood Centre
The Rosewood Centre at Barker College features a series of crisp, modern-looking, skillion awnings to add a striking visual feature to the clean, linear lines of building.
Fabric Soffit Case Study
88 Walker Street Soffit
The 88 Walker Street Soffit adds a stunning visual detail to the brand-new high-rise development in North Sydney.
Membrane Awning & Facade Gallery
Would You Like More Information about Membrane Awnings & Facades?
Contact us today to discuss your project requirements. We are the market leader in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of custom fabric structures for a wide variety of applications and industries. We have extensive project experience and offer endless possibilities when it comes to custom design solutions to meet your needs.