Textile Hybrid structures belong to a flourish set of structural systems in the field of lightweight architecture. Their intrinsic beauty, lightweight, structural efficiency and portability have attracted the interest of engineers and designers in the last years.

In 2011, the professor Kazuhiro Kojima dazzled the design field with a novel structural skin. “The Moom pavilion” which is the world’s first membrane structure that combining a tensile membrane material and discretely placed compression members [Kojima 2011, para.1]. Moom doesn´t belong to the existing stablished types of membrane structures: self-supporting frame structure and air inflated membrane structures. Due to the novelty, this structure have awaken the interest of engineers and designers. While the concept of tensegrity is not new, it was developed 6 decades ago and it has gained popularity in recent years.

It is worthy to mention that it is possible to create several types of typologies to achieve the structural equilibrium. And there are different paths to develop an academic research. This document is structured in order to implement the technology over a large span roof whitout central supports and over discrete surface.
Henio Engels was the engineer who classified the behavior of different types of structures [Lienhard, 2014]. Curved beams and membranes structures that base their geometry on the elastic deformation are defined as “form-active” (membrane) and “Bending-active” (beams). A hybrid of these categories has a result a system whose stiffness is much higher than the stiffness of the bent element itself. Hybrid structure systems result from the linkege of two parental systems of dissimilar internal load transmission into a coupled system.
The present document will disclose new approaches and applications for hybrid structural membranes thinking in its structural efficiency, fabrication process and in its aesthetical qualities.