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 soccer stadium which costed about 40 Mio. Euro, offers seats for 30.000 spectators. It is situated on a hill opposite the museum of technology of Sinsheim at the motorway A6 between Heilbronn and Mannheim.

formTL
consulting, structural design membrane, workshop drawings membrane

general architect
AGN/Ibbenbüren

wind experts
Wacker Ingenieure/Birkenfeld

realisation
steel: Donges

membrane
CENO TEC GmbH / Greven

photos
Jürgen Strobel (1)
formTL (2,3)
Uwe Grün (4)

20.600 m² PES-PVC Typ III for the upper membrane,

21.300 m² net fabric for the lower membrane