SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures

SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures is an interdisciplinary working architectural firm that specializes in the design and manufacture of special structures and lightweight structures. The company was founded by Mahmoud Bodo Rasch. Among the best known projects include the convertible Großschirme before the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and the clock tower on the Makkah Clock Tower.

History

Mahmoud Bodo Rasch founded the office Rasch & Associates and 1991, the company special design and lightweight GmbH in 1980. 1998 Rasch's longtime chief architect Jürgen Bradatsch partner in the architectural firm quickly and Bradatsch. Since 1998, the company trades as SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures.

Profile

The founder Mahmoud Bodo Rasch studied with Frei Otto, worked in the studio of Frei Otto Warmbronn and at the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart. The research team SL- Rasch and working architects, engineers, computer scientists, designers, media designers, model makers, art historians, Ornamentalisten, filmmakers, scholars of religion, physicists and philosophers interdisciplinary under one roof.

They develop structures with the embossed by Frei Otto claim to optimize each design technically and aesthetically continuously. The Department of Islamic design brings these structures into line with necessary in the context of religious or governmental buildings decorative forms.

SL Rasch specializes in the development, design and production of large umbrellas and convertible roofs. The foundation of the work is basic research and the development of specific software.

The company has a high performance computing facility and employs currently in Germany and Saudi Arabia, around 250 employees.

Selected Projects

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