April | 20.4.: The time has come! After 8 years in the Kapellenweg where we started with 10 employees, with 20 employees now it is cramped. We move to our new office in the former boiler house (Kesselhaus) of the company Schiesser, Güttinger Str. 37, 78315 Radolfzell.
25.4-2.5.: with a new stand: Mercedes-Benz on the Auto China Beijing. |
March | 8.3.-18.3.: Mercedes-Benz on the Automobilsalon in Geneva. |
February | In cooperation with Diller Scofidio + Renfro/New York we are working on the invited competition at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1.2.: Pneumatic Structures, presentation by Bernd Stimpfle at the Lightweight Landscape Architectural Workshop at the Politecnico di Milano. |
January | 17.1.: "Form-Rule/Rule-Form", lecture of Gerd Schmid at the University Innsbruck/Koge.
9.-22.1.: Mercedes-Benz on the North American International Auto Show in Detroit with a stand designed by KTP and formTL. |
December | The Cube, Elektrolux's gourmet pavillon, is on ist way through Europe. After Zurich it is now positioned on the Piazza del Duomo in Milan from the 19. December to 26. April 2012.
13.12.: Inauguration of the Palais Thermal in Bad Wildbad: Our 3-pole-tent on the roof of the former health resort building covers the new sauna and the outer pool.
9.-11.12: Annual winter excursion of the formTL team to the Montafon region in Austria.
2.12.: "mobil/wandelblar, konstruktionen im leichtbau", lecture of Jürgen Trenkle at the TU Vienna-HB2. |
November | Hamburg-Barmbek: The cushions of the Southern part of the bus station are assembeld, on 22.11. it was put into operation.
Liebherr stand at the bauma 2010/Munich has received the "red dot design award" 2011, category "event design".
formTL: structural design, membrane design.
11.11.: Inauguration of the overall rebuilt "Olympic Stadium" in Kiev with a friendly match between the Ukrainian and German soccer-teams. |
October | "Leichtbau meets marketing" - short presentation by Gerd Schmid about light structures in marketing context, 27.10. at the congress centre "Milchwerk" in Radolfzell.
The SPA Ishara Bielefeld will be extended: Assembly of a big circular four-layer ETFE-cushion with a decentralise centre point, covering the atrium. formTL: structural design. |
September | Kick-Off at the new soccer-stadium "Juventus stadium" in Turin. formTL: design and engineering of the stand roofing in membrane and foil.
The famous German talkmaster Günther Jauch presents his new primetime talkshow in the "Berlin Gasometer" - under an ETFE-cupola, called "Bundestagsarena". Originally the cupola, designed by "DAS - Fiedler" architects and formTL, served as a special information-center about the Deutsche Bundestag in Berlin during the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. In 2009 the ETFE-cupola was reassembled in the "Berlin Gasometer" as a special event location and in 2011 equipped as a TV-studio. Architect: DAS Fiedler/Berlin. formTL: structural design of the modular steel structure, cutting pattern ETFE foil.
IAA 2011 - 15.-25.9: In the historical festival hall in Frankfurt again an exceptional stand of Mercedes-Benz/Maybach.
formTL: structural design, load-coordination, cupola-interior panelling pattern.
Botanical Garden Aarhus: Start of assembly of the pneumatically shaded ETFE-cushions on a parabolic shaped steel structure. The Green house has a ground area of 1.145 m² and 124 cushions up to a size of 5x5m. formTL: structural analysis, detail design, cushions patterning. |
August
| Central bus-station Hamburg-Barmbek: The new roofs for the southern transfer area are being assembled.
„The Royal Edinburgh MilitaryTattoo“, Scotland´s biggest music festival takes place from the 5.-27.8. It´s new grandstand was engineered in Radolfzell. formTL: design, primary structure grandstand and VIP-area.
assembly start of the roof-membrane Uni Turin. formTL: structural design membrane. |
July | membrane assembling for the NSC Olympicstadium Kiev has startet.
formTL-team takes part at the sport event "Bodensee Megathlon 2011" (31.7.)
formTL garden party (29.7.) |
June | production of the new roofs for the busterminal at Hamburgs third largest railway station "Hamburg Barmbek" has started. formTL: structural design. |
May
| "The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo": stand-assembly for the biggest music festival in Scottland starts.
formTL: steel-structure tribune and east accommodation building. |
April | Grand opening of the art pavillon "White Noise" at the Biennale Salzburg.
formTL: structural analysis membrane-panels, cuttings membrane-panels and closure flap.
The temporay roof, covering tennis-grounds of the NTC (National Tennis Court)/Wimbledon, is nominated for the Riba Award 2011. Only recently this project received a special award of the “ICE (The Institution of Civil Engineers) London Civil Engineering Awards 2011. formTL: membrane design.
Once again Gerd Schmid teaches "light weight structures" within the scope of the Master’s program “civil engineering ready for the future” at the FH Frankfurt/Main during the summer term 2011. |
March | The temporary sports canopy at the National Tennis Centre wins a special award of the “ICE (The Institution of Civil Engineers) London Civil Engineering Awards 2011. formTL:membrane design.
Sven Haag has succeeded the international study course „Membrane Structures” at the University of Applied Science Anhalt/Germany. Congratulations to our new “Master of Engineering in Membrane Structures (M.Eng.)”. |
February
| assembly start-up of the roof membrane Juventus Turin stadium.
Christoph Singer completes his master thesis with distinction. Congratulations!
Even though the seasonal inflatable pavilion (SIP) for the Hirshhorn museum/Washington is still in planning stage, it already gets the first award, the „progressive architecture award“ of the architecture magazine. formTL: Lph 1-8. |
January | Kick-off for the design of a new sports stadium in Uyo/Nigeria.
Liebherr stand at the bauma 2010/Munich receives the bronze-award, category space/architecture of the ddc (German Designer Club), given for excellent design. formTL: structural design, membrane design. |
