Station Canopy Elifelet Station
Tel Aviv (Israel) 2022
Elifelet Station is a new station on the Tel Aviv light rail line not far from the old city of Jaffa. While the platforms are located underground, the ground-level station concourse is open and covered by a large membrane canopy.
The very light-looking structure comprises 38 individual, v-shaped membrane surfaces, which are lined up to create a canopy over the trapeze-shaped floor plan. The area is completely covered, but gaps between the separate v-shaped elements make the roof appear to be even lighter.
The individual surfaces span across the almost 20m width of the station without additional supports and are connected to the outer longitudinal steel beams.
Data
formTL
Structural design of membrane canopy
Execution and workshop design of membrane roof + cables
General contractor
Alumeshed
Architect
Kolker Kolker Epstein Architects
Tel Aviv (Israel)
Execution of membrane cable structure
se cover GmbH, Obing/DE
Photos
Thomas Schlijper
Size
Surface
38 individual elemetns
A total of 2.500m² of membrane
Verseidag TXA-110 F
Covered area
1700 m²
Cables
d=28-40mm
Material
Verseidag TXA-110 F