Mahmoud Bodo Rasch

Mahmoud Bodo Rasch ( born May 12, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect who has specialized in the construction of wheeled large umbrellas and lightweight architecture. He is the founder and owner of SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures with offices in Leinfelden, Jeddah, Mecca and Medina.

Life

Mahmoud Bodo Rasch's mother, Lilo Rasch Naegele (1914-1978) was a painter and graphic artist and his father Bodo Rasch (1903-1995) was, together with his brother Heinz Rasch (1902-1996) to the international architectural avant-garde of the 1920s. Following the artistic family tradition, Mahmoud Bodo Rasch joined in 1964 to study architecture at the University of Stuttgart, where he graduated in 1972 with a diploma. His two older sister Aiga Rasch (1941-2009) was an illustrator and graphic designer.

While studying Mahmoud Bodo Rasch employees by Frei Otto in 1967 at the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart and 1969 in the design and development firm Atelier Frei Otto Warmbronn was. Rasch led the work on the new building of the institute building (originally the cable network design was the prototype for the German Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal) and took over the project management of the first mobile large screens that Frei Otto for the Federal Horticultural Show in Cologne in 1971 designed and built. This collaboration joint projects and close friendship between the two architects created. To date, Frei Otto is a consultant in the team of Mahmud Bodo Rasch.

1973 Mahmoud Bodo Rasch was a guest lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA. In 1974, participation in an urban design competition for pilgrim accommodation in the tent city in the valley of Mina near Mecca. In the same year, Bodo Rasch converted to Islam.

In 1975, Mahmoud Bodo Rasch with Sami Angawi the Hajj Research Center at King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. His dissertation on the tent cities of the Hajj was published in 1980 in the series " releases of the Institute for Lightweight Structures, University of Stuttgart, IL 29 tent cities of the Hajj ."

In 1980, Mahmoud Bodo Rasch Rasch & Associates, the architectural firm and in 1991 the company special design and lightweight (SL GmbH), which operates under the name SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures since 1998. 1998 Rasch's longtime chief architect Jürgen Bradatsch partner in the architectural firm quickly and Bradatsch.

With his team Mahmoud Bodo Rasch Frei Otto sets principles of lightweight construction continued on the basis of basic scientific research. Its newly established team of Islamic design brings the minimal forms of lightweight construction in accordance with the necessary in the context of religious or governmental buildings decorative forms.

Rasch's long-standing commitment in the Middle East and the realization of extremely adaptable light constructions led to spectacular large-scale projects for the holy sites of Islam: In cooperation with highly specialized company he developed with his team so unusual projects such as the largest clock tower in the world and the spire of the Makkah Clock Tower, or 250 mobile bulk umbrellas that shade the square to the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and protect the pilgrims against sun and rain.

Projects (selection)

  • 2000 " Kaaba Stairs" mobile staircase for the Kaaba in the Holy Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2000 Venezuela Pavilion at the Expo 2000, Hanover
  • 2001 dancing fountains Cologne, renewal of the membrane
  • 2001 "Sail Iceland " shade sail on the Red Sea Corniche, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 2002 Toldo for the Villa d' Este in Rome, Italy
  • 2002 Mobile umbrellas, Hotel d' Angleterre, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2002 " Minbar ", mobile pulpit for the holy mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2004 Retractable Roof, castle ruins Scherenburg, Gemünden, M., Germany
  • 2004 membrane roof retail Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 2004 umbrellas for the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart, design with Frei Otto
  • 2007 tent roofs and lighting concept, Royal Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  • 2007 Convertible umbrellas for the Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados
  • 2008 Convertible umbrellas ( 29mx29m ) Royal Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 2009-2012 tents on the Abraj Al Bait Towers, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: Hijra Plaza, Tower Tents
  • 2011 250 mobile screens ( 26mx26m ) for the Prophet's Mosque in Medina
  • 2012 " Royal Clock " and spire on the " Royal Clock Tower " of the Abraj Al Bait Towers, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2013 Convertible umbrellas at the Sundance Square in Fort Worth, Texas.

Awards

Exhibitions

Publications

  • IL 29 ' tent cities of the Hajj, " Ph.D. dissertation by Bodo Rasch
  • Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch: find form - Towards an architecture of minimalism, Edition Axel Menges, 1995
  • Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch: Finding form - Towards an Architecture of the Minimal, Edition Axel Menges, 1995

Articles and Interviews

  • " Starwave tent and five-meter screen at the Biennale in Venice ", " jubilee ship " in Berlin In: Detail: temporary buildings, 8/1996
  • " Convertible Architecture" in L' Arca di architettura Larivista internazionale, design e comunicazione visiva 73/1993
  • Skyscraper project in Mecca: It Goes gigantic - Spiegel online
  • In Focus: Bodo Rasch - Allah's Architect
  • German engineers in Medina: shade from the home

Movies

  • The Pedestrian Movement of Al Hajj, 1978 Film by Viscom and Hajj Research Center
  • Bodo Rasch - Architecture for Allah, Documentary, 2004, SOUTHWEST TV: 29 January 2004 22.30 clock
  • The Makkah Clock film, 2012 SL Rasch
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