Completed Project — Commercial & Institutional
Swara Enterprises, Diu Food Court Tensile Structure
A large tensile roof over a food-court and dining area at Diu — about 5,000 m² of tensioned fabric on a galvanised steel frame, built by Ekra Decor for Swara Enterprises in about six weeks.
- LocationDiu
- StructureFood court
- Coverage5,000 m²
- Delivered≈1.5 months
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Project Overview
from Ekra Decor’s
project records
Ekra Decor built a food-court tensile structure at Diu, the coastal Union Territory off the Gujarat coast. The archive contains two entries — “Swara Enterprises, Diu” and “Food Court Area, Diu” — that share an identical 5,000 m² area and 1.5-month completion, and this page treats them as one project: a food-court development by Swara Enterprises.
A food court is an ideal use for a large tensile roof. It needs a big, continuously covered area for stalls and seating, kept cool and dry so people linger and eat, but open at the sides so it stays ventilated and pleasant — and it benefits from the bright, even light a translucent membrane gives. At 5,000 m² this is one of the larger single structures in Ekra Decor’s records.
The build is recorded at about six weeks.
Project Highlights
Project highlights
Large covered dining area
About 5,000 m² of continuous cover for food stalls and seating.
Open at the sides
The roof shades and shelters while keeping the food court ventilated and connected to its surroundings.
Bright, even light
A translucent membrane fills the space with diffuse daylight — comfortable for diners, good for the stalls.
Built for the coast
A corrosion-resistant frame and a UV- and salt-stable membrane, specified for Diu’s marine air.
Delivered in about six weeks
A fast programme for a structure of this size.
Two archive entries, one project
Consolidated here from matching “Swara Enterprises” and “Food Court Area” records.
Project Photographs
The project, as built
The Brief
A roof that makes a food court work
An open-air food court only succeeds if people want to stay in it. That means shade and rain cover over the whole area — stalls and seating alike — without closing the space in, because a sealed, air-conditioned hall loses the easy, outdoor feel that makes a food court pleasant. A large tensile roof is the standard answer.
Ekra Decor delivered the structure as a turnkey job: survey and setting-out, 3D structural and membrane design, fabrication of the galvanised steel frame and the welded fabric, and installation and tensioning, over about 5,000 m² in roughly six weeks.
Design & Engineering
A large clear-span roof, detailed for the coast
Covering a food court means a big clear span with the columns pushed to the perimeter and the circulation lines, so stalls and seating can be laid out freely underneath and rearranged later. The membrane and its supporting steel cross the area in repeating bays.
The fabric is form-found in 3D and pre-stressed into double curvature so it stays taut under wind uplift and drains cleanly to defined edges. On a coastal site the specification steps up: the steel is hot-dip galvanised, exposed fittings are stainless, and the membrane is a PVDF- or PTFE-coated fabric chosen for UV and salt resistance. Ekra Decor designs the steelwork to IS 800 and takes wind and rain loads to the applicable Indian codes, with the foundations sized for the wind uplift that governs a large light roof by the sea.
Fabrication & Installation
Prefabricated, erected in weeks
The steel is cut, welded and hot-dip galvanised in the workshop and the membrane is cut and high-frequency welded into panels off-site, so the canopy arrives as a set of prepared components. On site the crew casts the foundations, erects the repeating frames, and runs and tensions the membrane bay by bay.
Prefabrication is what makes a 5,000 m² roof achievable in about six weeks — site time goes into assembly, not manufacture.
The Result
A shaded, airy place to eat
Diu gained a large covered food court that stays cool, dry and bright but open and ventilated — the kind of space people are happy to sit in for a while. Maintenance is limited to cleaning the membrane and periodic checks of the frame and tensions.
Ekra Decor builds large roofs for food courts, markets and dining areas. See the related Swara Enterprises promenade pavilion, more work on the projects page, or tensile structures in Diu.
Technical Specifications
Project data
Only the fields recorded for this project are shown. Membrane grade and steel sections are specified per project after the site survey.
Project
- Client
- Swara Enterprises
- Location
- Diu
- Category
- Commercial & Institutional
Structure
- Type
- Food court tensile structure
- Coverage
- 5,000 m²
- Membrane
- Architectural tensile fabric (PVC / PVDF-coated polyester) — compare membranes
Delivery
- Scope of work
- Site survey · 3D design · engineering · fabrication · installation
- Programme
- ≈1.5 months
- Engineering
- Wind, rain and seismic loads to applicable IS codes; steelwork to IS 800
- Photographs
- 5, Ekra Decor archive
About This Project
A real, completed Ekra Decor project
This project is recorded in Ekra Decor’s own project archive. It is documented with 5 site photographs from Ekra Decor’s own project archive. Ekra Decor designed, fabricated and installed the structure. Ekra Decor is an ISO 9001:2015-certified tensile structure manufacturer, established in 1998, working pan-India from Delhi and Bangalore.
View ISO 9001:2015 certificate- Structure type
- Food court tensile structure
- Location
- Diu
- Coverage
- 5,000 m²
- Completion
- ≈1.5 months
- Scope
- Design · engineering · fabrication · installation
- Manufacturer
- Ekra Decor Pvt. Ltd. — ISO 9001:2015, est. 1998
Common Questions
About this project & building something similar
Ekra Decor's project records describe this installation as a food court tensile structure.
Diu.
5,000 m², per Ekra Decor's project records.
≈1.5 months from start to finish, per Ekra Decor's project records — in line with the standard 10 to 15 day fabrication and 3 to 7 day on-site installation timeline used across most projects.
Swara Enterprises.
Yes — 5 photographs from Ekra Decor's own project archive appear in the gallery above, not a stock or illustrative image.
Yes — every project starts with a site survey and a custom 3D design tailored to your space, not a fixed template. Get in touch to discuss a similar structure for your own site.
The choice depends on span, climate and intended lifespan. PVC-coated polyester is the most cost-effective option, with a 10–15 year service life. PVDF-coated polyester adds a self-cleaning top layer and pushes that to 15–20 years. PTFE-coated fibreglass is a permanent, non-combustible membrane with a life measured in decades, and ETFE film is used where an ultra-light, highly transparent roof is needed.
Yes. Wind, rain and — where relevant — snow and seismic loads are analysed to the applicable IS codes, and the steelwork is designed to IS 800. The membrane is form-found so its stresses stay balanced in double curvature, and the foundations are sized against uplift and overturning rather than gravity alone — the governing case for a lightweight tensile roof.
A one-year written warranty on the structure and workmanship, and a membrane warranty of 5 to 15 years depending on the fabric grade, plus as-built drawings, original mill certificates for the membrane and steel, a structural stability certificate and an operation & maintenance manual on handover. An annual maintenance contract covering inspection and re-tensioning is optional.
Very little — a periodic wash to remove surface dirt, and an annual check of cable tension and bolt torque. PVDF and PTFE membranes are largely self-cleaning, so rain keeps them looking new. We can carry this out under an annual maintenance contract if you prefer.
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