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Kategorie: Cable Net

  • Free the Air: part of Tomás Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s), New York (2022)

    Free the Air: part of Tomás Saraceno’s Particular Matter(s), New York (2022)

    Project Data

    Artist: Tomás Saraceno
    Client : 3DTex
    Location: The Shed, NY
    Structure: multi-sensory installation consisting of two walkable steel webs, steel structure and a pneumatic large balloon
    Material: steel, stainless steel X-Tend mesh, steel cables, aluminum, Helium tight coated membrane
    Covered area: 700 sqm
    Balloon volume: 14.130 qm
    Fotos: © Tomás Saraceno, 3DTex, z3rch

    Z3RCH:
    Concept design: Conceptual design for a 95-foot-diameter sculpture housing a concert of spider/webs in four movements.
    Form finding: Balloon + Walkable X-Tend Mesh
    Static design: Steel + Membrane + X-Tend Mesh from Carl Stahl + Steel cables + Aluminum extrusion
    Execution planning: Steel + PU-coated membrane + X-Tend Mesh from Carl Stahl + steel cables + aluminum extrusion
    Workshop planning: Membrane patterning
    On site: Supervision and consulting on site

     

    Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s) at The Shed is centered around a larger-than-life multi-sensory installation consisting of two webs, each ninety-five feet in diameter. One is suspended forty feet in the air and overlooks a lower web twelve feet above the ground. The experience of this spider universe includes a ten-minute concert in four movements based on the sights, sounds, and vibrations of a spider and its web. Participants step into a cavernous, white space that is foggy and dimly lit. One walks across the giant and slightly terrifying nets either peering up at those above or looking down at others clumsily finding a place to lay down and settle in for the concert. The number of bodies permitted at one time on each level is carefully controlled to ensure the safety of visitors while also allowing for plenty of room to spread out. (text by: daily art magazine)

    The new cultural center in New York, The Shed, will receive in winter 2022 artist Tomas Saraceno with his first solo exhibition in New York, Particular Matter(s). Together with the Studio Saraceno, 3dtex and Balloon Bau Wörner we have a developed a 29 m diameter sculpture that will be put inside the Mc Court.

    The exhibition, Free the Air is a large-scale sensory experience in which visitors perceive a concert of vibrations derived from the movement of particles through the air and how spiders relay information through vibratory mechanisms. On the upper level, visitors venture onto a floating web-like floor 40 feet above the ground. In Free the Air, the body becomes an ear, perceptive to the net reverberating beneath it and to the rhythms of other species. (The Shed)

    The balloon is a 29 m sphere made out of TPU material and will be inflated through a ventilator.
    Inside the balloon you will find two walking nets made of stainless steel cables.
    Both structures will be fixed through an outer steel structure that will be ballasted with water tanks to the ground.
    The whole structure will be installed in only two weeks and will bring an amazing experience to the visitors and will bring a milestone on Studio Saraceno projects going on big dimensions.

    Location: The Shed, NY

  • Red Sea Mall ETFE skylight (2018)

    Red Sea Mall ETFE skylight (2018)

    Project Data

    Architect: Midrar Consulting
    Z3RCH: Engineering ETFE cushion and cable net + cutting patterns
    Client : Gulf Shade
    Structure: Cable net reinforced big ETFE cushion
    Material: ETFE natural / printed + Steel Cables
    Covered area: 760 sqm
    Fotos: Gulf Shade

    The Red Sea Mall will host the first cinema to open in Jeddah. The cinema infraestructure occupies an 8,000 sqm space and will have 1,472 seats in 12 halls, including standard and VIP halls, an IMAX screen, a 4DX auditorium with motion-controlled seats, and halls for children.

    For this new experience for the people of Jeddah we were asked to design the ETFE cushion that covers the opening of the ceiling at the entrance of the cinema. The structure consist of 9 ETFE cushion with different dimensions reinforced by a steel cable net. Every cushion is independent from the other and is made of a 3 layer system to achieve a better thermical insulation.
    The biggest ETFE cushion is 21 x 9 m and describe an oval form.

    The cushions cover approximately 80% of the hall entrance area with a minimum amount of steel structure. This means that we have approximately 80% of natural light that illuminates the main hall of the first cinema in the city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

  • Oxygen – San José, Costa Rica (2018)

    Oxygen – San José, Costa Rica (2018)

    Project data

    Architect: Jerde
    Engineering ETFE + cable structure, cutting patterns: z3rch
    Main contractor ETFE-Cushion: 3dtex
    Assembly: Lonas Lorenzo
    Manufacturing ETFE: Novum
    Manufacturing Stainless Steel Cables: Jakob
    Structure: Cable net supported ETFE cushion
    Material: ETFE natural + IR-Cut, Stainless steel cables
    Covered Area: 1.600 sqm
    photos: 3dtex, Lonas Lorenzo

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    San Francisco de Heredia will soon be home to Oxígeno, a unique recreational and commercial space that combines nature and human relaxation in a development that “will be unique in the world.” For this amazing project it was asked to us to developed a cover for the main food court of the almost 125.000 sqm recreation and shopping area.
    The job was to developed an ETFE roof for 1.600 sqm, the idea, to do one big ETFE cushion!

    The roof has a diameter of 45m and the ETFE material is supported by a cable net attached to a steel structure provided by the client. Very important in this project is the safety system against water ponding, a system developed by the firm 3dtex, which does not use the plastic tube inside the cushion, achieving first a better safety of the system and second a much clear and elegant architectural design of the structure.

    In this way the country of Costa Rica and the city of Heredia not only became it first ETFE cushion roof but also the biggest in the world.

    Here we leave you a video of the assembly!video: Julián García | editing: Andres Aguirre

  • La victoria shopping mall – Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico (2017)

    La victoria shopping mall – Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico (2017)

    Project data

    Design: Lonas Lorenzo
    Engineering Steel + ETFE: z3rch
    Contractor: Lonas Lorenzo + 3dtex
    Structure: Free form pneumatic structure
    Material: ETFE foil + steel + steel cables + aluminium
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.000 sqm
    photos: 3dtex, Lonas Lorenzo



    The ETFE roof of the Shopping Mall “La Victoria” in Queretaro, Mexico, is our second project together with Lonas Lorenzo.

    For this project we have designed an oval steel ring which is covered with a PCV/PES layer to hide the steel structure. The big oval ring described by steel structure was designed to be covered with an ETFE material. In this way we have a designed a big ETFE Cushion of 30 m length, 24 m wide and 7.5 m high, being this by the moment, the biggest ETFE cushion in America.

    The big volume inside the steel ring it is put under pressure to give form to the outer ETFE surfaces, and to have the structure under working tension. The steel ring structure, covering aprox. 1.000 sqm wil be held in 4 points, making the idea of levitating of the project possible.

  • Multihalle Mannheim, Germany 2019

    Multihalle Mannheim, Germany 2019

    Project data

    Arquitect: HMGB Architekten
    Competition: Democratic Umbrella
    Z3RCH:  Counsulting for the Structural Concept
    Structure: Cable net supported ETFE cushion
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.250 + 700 sqm
    photos: HMGB Architekten

    Design for the international competition for the Multihalle Mannheim from HMGB Architekten.
    Dos cojínes de ETFE son concebidos para ser construidos dentro del hall. Generando un contraste entre el antiguo hall y las ideas de Frei Otto y el estado del arte actual de las estructuras tensadas.

  • Bus terminal Aarau, Switzerland (2013)

    Bus terminal Aarau, Switzerland (2013)

    Project data

    Architect: VJA Architekten
    Engineering: form-tl
    Structure: ETFE pneumatic structure
    Material: ETFE foil, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 1.000 sqm
    photos: Eduard Hueber, Niklaus Spoerri, z3rch


  • YAP_Constructo 9, Santiago de Chile 2019

    YAP_Constructo 9, Santiago de Chile 2019

    Project Data

    Architect: GA Estudio
    Competition: YAP Constructo 9 – Chile
    Z3RCH: Counsulting for the Structural Concept
    Structure: Cable net reinforced Water / Air Tank
    Covered area: aprox. 200 sqm
    Fotos: GA Estudio

    This project explores the architectural possibilities of a flexible water cistern (tank): an industrial element that gives shape to the problem of water today, its possibilities of collection, retention, easy mobilization and care.
    We have proposed to erect a flexible water cistern, a tank that with slight adjustments will transform it into cover, mixing air and water. 25% of water 75% of air supported thanks to a collaborative structure between a mound of compacted earth (static) and another of tensegrity (flexible) where elements subjected to traction and compression tie the entire system.
    The weight of the water activates all the structural elements. As a dead weight, the cistern lies on top of a “bed”, “network” or “shirt” that connects with the perimeter pillars. This weight is transformed into a surface tension on the “bed” which is derived as traction to the cables and compression to the perimeter pillars forming a continuous flow of energy that is closed within the structural system.

    Text for the competition by GA Estudio.