Tensile structure
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about tensile structure
Project • By MET Studio • Exhibitions
MET Studio creates EDF brand experience exhibit for the London 2012 Games
Leading experiential design agency MET Studio has created an exciting 3D brand experience exhibit for EDF, the official partner of and electricity supplier to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, housed in a purpose-built Pavilion (designed by architects Schmidhuber) within the London 2012 Olympic Park. MET Studio joined a team of leading European creatives on the project, including Schmidhuber and event management company Iluka, who co-ordinated the overall project on behalf of EDF.
The 600 sq m Pavilion - a giant, semi-open tensile structure made of recyclable materials and covered in a perforated mesh -is sited next to the main athletics stadium on the site and was created to stand for the duration of the games, from the opening ceremony... More
Project • By LAVA Architects • Sports Centres
ADDIS ABABA NATIONAL STADIUM AND SPORTS VILLAGE
Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new technology.
LAVA, the LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE, and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
LAVA, the LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE, and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
LAVA went back to the very origin... More
Project • By Mario Schjetnan - Grupo de Diseño Urbano • Parks/Gardens
San Luis Bicentenarial Park
The Bicentennial Park is the first urban project of the new IMMSA Master Plan in San Luis Potosi. It is part of a system of green spaces that will include recreation, bike paths, running paths and water bodies that give structure and order to the new development. The Landscape Structure strategy provides a sustainable future for the new development, ensuring a high quality of life. The project itself is a linear park that works as a buffer between pre-existing industry and the recent housing developments on the west side of a regional road. It is also an important part of a new vision of public urban parks and gardens that include in its design:
• Land rehabilitation, salvaging and transplanting of developed plant material (done in colla... More
Project • By King Roselli Architetti • Hotels
The Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre
King Roselli Architetti was commissioned to design the exteriors of this large hotel in front of Malpensa International Airport as a result of competition winning entry for the overall design of the building. Despite its size (420m long, 64m wide, 21m high) the building was conceived as a design object. Partly because Milan is Italy’s design capital, and partly because we were interested in investigating the technical and architectural properties of a skin or membrane to be perceived dynamically as façade not only on its four sides but also the roof- visible from the access road to the airport complex. The hotel has 436 rooms, a conference centre, a spa accessible directly from the airport.
Membrane We were looking for a seamless shell t... More
Project • By GRAFT • Apartments
Birds Island
We have applied an integrated strategy of developing a zero-energy house that seamlessly dovetails the economic and environmental advantages of environmentally friendly living with the needs of a demanding and cosmopolitan clientele. The environmental and economic features of this way of living do not conflict with our client’s lifestyle; rather it furthers their ability to comfortably enjoy their time at home. While providing an expansive outdoor living deck that spans the whole of the site, the primary living space is concentrated inside cooled zones. A maximum amount of economical and energy efficient floor area is created and sheltered from the elements by a dynamic tensile structure. The traditional relationship between indoor and outd... More
Product • By CABOT AEROGEL • Silica aerogel
Silica aerogel
Overcome design challenges while meeting today's strict energy and building code requirements
Because it offers unsurpassed thermal efficiency, high-quality diffused light and sound reduction, Nanogel has gained wide acceptance across the US and Europe for use in highly insulated daylighting systems of all types, including:
Structural Composite Panels
Structural Polycarbonate Systems
U-Channel Glass
Insulated Glass Units
Unit Skylights and Smoke Vents
Tensile Structures/Fabric Roofing
Within these systems, Cabot;s aerogel offers architects and building owners a number of design benefits, including the ability to incorporate more daylight and optimize building aesthetics without sacrificing, but actually improving... More
Project • By BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group • Libraries
ANL - Astana National Library
The National Library is conceived as the integration of 4 organizational strategies into one new national institution
The perfect circle of the national archives
The orbiting spiral of the public spaces
The complex geometry of the Möbius envelope and the radially distributed section of the Kazakh landscape.
The pure diagram of the circle combined with the meandering trajectory of the public path creates an institution that is rigorous and playful, crystal clear and serendipitous. The eager student, the focused researcher, the citizen pilgrim and the curious tourist will all find an institution that meets their needs.
The Architecture of the National Library fuses 4 universal archetypes into one new national monument
The ci... More