Working with Guidworks

We share our work space with Mar Ricketts of Guildworks, an architectural fabric and kite company. We met in early spring via Craigslist, where Mar was searching for someone to share his space with. We got along well and he was really interested in having us here because of our sewing skills and his occasional need for a sub contractor.

Mar does the huge fabric installations that you see at festivals like Rothbury, Pick-a-Thon and Beloved as well as installations at businesses around town. The first project we picked up for him was a day light reflector for a sky light in the music room at the Da Vinci Arts Middle School, which built an eco classroom you can read about in the New York Times.

The music room is part of a program at the University of Oregon that studies energy efficiency in buildings. You can read about the design of the daylight reflector on their website, this is the picture of the first one they tested:

This is the sectional view of the one I worked on, the reflector is the trapezoid suspended in the center below the skylight:

 

 The reflector is made out of panels of Gore Tenara an architectural fabric that is durable, UV resistant and recyclable!