Stand of Mercedes-Benz IAA Frankfurt/M. (D) 2009 The appearance of Mercedes-Benz, smart, AMG and Maybach was concentrated on the inside of Frankfurt’s festival hall, which had its 100. anniversary this year. With its once visionary steel structure it was Europe’s biggest self-supporting hall. A huge membrane of mesh fabric is spanned over the exhibition room…
Busterminal Aarau (CH) 2012/2013 A steel table and a large cushion wrapped by an arbitrary net of steel cables do not only form a bus terminal but a functional art piece in the urban space. A borderless pattern of bubbles has been printed on the blue upper and the transparent lower ETFE-foil. The world’s largest…
Liebherr stand bauma Munich (D) 2010 / 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 he Liebherr-fair presence on the bauma is one of the biggest stands in the world. The real stars of the fair presence are 70 construction machines which played a decisive role in the design. The ensemble consists of the building parts…
Piräus Shopping Mall Athen (GR) 2009 In Greece temporary covered areas are seen as open space, and allow so a higher usage of the land. For this reason the Mall got a reefable membrane roof. The goal during the design was, to find a light roof with direct view to the blue sky. The solution…
Foil facade Unilever building Hamburg (D) 2009 Unilever has moved its Headquarter for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Hamburg’s HafenCity. The office building fulfills the Gold Standard for sustainable buildings The polygonal transparent curtain-wall façade can already be seen from far away. It prevents the building from unwanted solar energy. The in this way protected…
Canopy of the small courtyard castle Dresden (D) 2008 During the reconstruction of Dresden’s castle the small courtyard got a 41 x 25 m sized cupola. This consists of a bending-stiff grid made of rectangular profiles and 261 foil cushions with an edge length up to 2,8m and a diagonal length up to 4,1m. So…
Rhein-Neckar Arena Sinsheim (D) 2009 SAP-founder Dietmar Hopp, has built a soccer stadium for the club TSG Hoffenheim. The design of AGN reminds of the Olympia Stadium in Berlin. Both of them have a invisible steel structure, because the arch supported roof membrane is additionally covered by a net fabric on the lower side. The…
Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Temples (Malta) 2009 Two big roofs were built to protect the 5000 years old megalithic ruins of the Hagar Qim und Mnajdra temples from environmental influences. Three important preconditions had to be taken into account: The roofs needed to be removeable without visible effects, their design had to follow the astronomical…
Event hall Chianciano (I) 2007 In the Fucoli Park the old membrane hall was substituted by a new one. The park environment should be left a lot of space, the new building is reminiscent of the cocoon of a butterfly or the cupules of a chestnut. The cover encloses a multifunctional room with 1.600 seats…
International Airshow Farnborough (GB) 2006 / 2008 / 2010 The temporary pavilion of the Italian holding Finmeccanica is to be rebuilt for 4 weeks every two years, therefore the self-supporting steel structure and the two-layer cover are designed and manufactured to be dismantled. 80% of the façade, with its height of 8 m, are made…
