Schlaich Bergermann & Partner

Schlaich berger und partner, sbp gmbh is a nationally and internationally operating engineering company in the construction industry with headquarters in Stuttgart and offices in Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and Shanghai.

3.1 grid shell
3.2 cable net facade
3.3 ring cable roof
3.4 Membrane Roofs
3.5 annulus carrier
3.6 Steel castings

History

The office was founded in 1980 by Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berger man.

Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berger husband were in the 1960s and 1970s engineers in Stuttgart engineering office Leonhardt and Andra, the planned 1972 the structure for the at that time existing as optical and static sensation tent roof construction of the Olympic Park in Munich.

Since 2002, Knut Goeppert, Andreas Keil, Sven Plieninger and Mike Schlaich lead the office.

National and international visibility and recognition gained office through its lightweight, minimal and innovative designs that were not only structurally well thought out, but were also achieved in the design appealing.

Work

The main focus of the office are the conception, planning and monitoring of construction works for sub-areas of structural engineering, such as membrane, glass, roof and facade constructions, bridges and rope constructions, towers, high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, warehouses, and testing activities for stability and structural analysis.

In addition, the office has a separate area for the development of technologies for solar power generation and has consulting engineers for renewable energy.

1982 was carried out by the solar area of the office, the development and construction of a prototype for a solar chimney power plant in Manzanares, Spain. Also since the early 1980s, the Dish - Stirling systems are developed for decentralized power generation. Since 2000, the Office participated in the planning and construction of parabolic trough power plants. This technology developed by sbp structures are currently used in many power plants worldwide.

Of particular importance in the story takes the Vidyasagar Setu Office, commonly known as the Second Hoogly Bridge in Kolkata, India. Local requirements for the construction of the bridge were the use of domestic, non-weldable steel, which was built by local workers with a lot of manual work. So huge cross sections including the pylon heads were assembled with rivets millions of thick plates.

For the Soccer World Cup in Germany 2006, a mobile roof construction was for the conversion of the Commerzbank Arena Frankfurt in a major new arena required, which can be closed over the field. 2004, a new roof with an opening to the longitudinal axis was already completed for the Berlin Olympic Stadium, as well as a new roof for the newly remodeled Rhein Energie Stadium Cologne.

2010 in South Africa ( Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg) or 2014 in Brazil.

Realized designs

Vidyasagar Setu or Second Hooghly Bridge, Kolkata, India, construction 1979-1992
Fair Tower in Leipzig, 1995
Hörnbrücke in Kiel, 1997
Ting Kau Bridge in Hong Kong, 1998
Humpback bridge in Duisburg, 1999
Schlaichturm in Weil am Rhein, 1999
Killesbergturm in Stuttgart, 2001
Humboldt Harbor Bridge in Berlin, 2002
Cantilever roof with membrane and glass canopy Olympiastadion Berlin, 2004
Roof Rhein Energie Stadium in Cologne, 2004
Membrane roof with wandelbarem membrane inner roof Commerzbank - Arena in Frankfurt am Main, 2005
Central Bus Station Hamburg, in 2006, received the Outstanding Structure Award from the IABSE
Structural design for the roof of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, May 2009
Roof structure of the reconstruction at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009
Roof construction of the National Stadium Warsaw, 2009-2012

Structural elements and materials used

For various projects the office has participated in numerous technical innovations.

Grid shell

The light, transparent canopy of the Hamburg museum charged the building structure as little as possible. For this grid shell was the conventional colander Godfather: its square mesh can be adjusted by Verrautung the mesh any surface geometry. Combined with a diagonal rope net, the net is the ideal shell. Eingedeckt with glass panels create a light, transparent roof. The glass panes are located directly on the power rods, so merge glass suspension and level and then standard secondary structure is unnecessary. For many existing courtyards, railway stations and new construction projects was this design principle, first applied in the Hamburg Museum, varied and developed: Hippos House Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, DZ Bank, Berlin, Palacio de Communications Madrid or Milan Fair.

Cable net facade

For the façade with nearly seamless transparency tension parallel horizontal and vertical rope crowds between the two lateral building structures, and between roof trusses and floor of the Kempinski Hotel at Munich Airport and form a flat cable network. The cable net facade is similar to a tennis racket. Depending on the magnitude of the bias and arrangement of the rope droves many variations of this design principle are possible and have also realized: Canopy of Roman baths Badenweiler, CYTS Beijing, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Foreign Office.

Ring cable roof

The ring cable roof is the transformation of the primary stressed in its plane spoked wheel for vertical load transfer. It combines the properties of the rope and the membrane structure: Between self-contained, self- anchored train and pressure rings is a sparse primary structure made of ropes with a strained between membrane as a secondary structure. One of the first modern ring rope roofs include the Mercedes -Benz Arena in Stuttgart. Other examples are some of the many football stadiums in the world ( Berlin, Frankfurt / Main, Cologne, Warsaw, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and many more).

Membrane roofs

Most of the ring rope roofs are covered with textile membranes. Textiles enable light, transparent roofs and facades that fascinate by diverse and unusual shapes. Because of their light weight and foldability textiles are predestined but also for convertible roofs. Among the first permanent movable membrane roofs heard the roof over the bullring Zaragoza, which can be opened in a few minutes like a flower and close. The same principle was used in the "greatest convertible in the world," the roof of the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt used. Even easier is only building with air: the pneumatic cushions of Nîmes arenas and Madrid turn this season within a few days, or after weather conditions in a few minutes.

Circular ring carrier

The curved in plan in Kehl home via the Main- Danube Canal aroused at the time of completion of a stir: She was the first on only one side suspended bridge. Meanwhile, the engineers Schlaich Berger and Partner varied the principle of the circular ring carrier several times how the pedestrian bridges in Bochum Gahlensche the road, in Gelsenkirchen or " the balcony to the sea " in Sassnitz show. When ZOB Hamburg, the principle was transferred to a roof structure.

Cast steel

The Stuttgart-based engineering firm is involved in the renaissance of cast steel in construction. During construction of the cable net roofs for the Olympics in Munich this rediscovery enabled the constructability and schedule completion. The cast steel allows the production of geometrically complicated pipe nodes and an optimal adaptation to the power flow. Today ( Nesenbachtal Bridge, Stuttgart) and railway bridges peppy rounded cast steel nodes are used in road bridges ( Humboldt Harbor Bridge Berlin) as well as for use in building construction (Hall 13, Messe Hannover ).

Buildings in Stuttgart

F1 map with all coordinates of the buildings in Stuttgart: OSM, Google and Bing

The city impressed for many citizens and visitors the image of the Stuttgart architecture. Many buildings of the past decades are interchangeable Großstadtadtarchitektur which is assessed as negative:

"So Stuttgart is a Allerweltsgebilde of shopping malls, apartment and office complexes. "
"Whoever enters the Stuttgart basin, immediately recognizes that architecture and punishment are one and the same. The eye sees crime, the most vivid Städtebauersadistenphantasie itself could not imagine it. "

The engineering firm Schlaich Berger and Partners as an internationally renowned company with headquarters in Stuttgart, however, the city has a large number of remarkable buildings enriched, but usually not in the city center. The modern, attractive engineers of the offices, especially the bridges, pedestrian bridges, towers, buildings and roofs are committed to the human scale and feature sustainability, lightness and transparency, and particularly its bridges, pedestrian bridges and towers fit perfectly into the natural surroundings. The otherwise architecturally not spoiled Stuttgart citizens meet here in an imaginative and taste- testimonies of contemporary architecture that demand even the non-specialist astonishment and admiration.

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