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Kategorie: Steel Structure

  • Marassi Galleria Mall, Kingdom of Bahrain (2021)

    Marassi Galleria Mall, Kingdom of Bahrain (2021)

    Project Data

    Architect: PACE Arquitectura y Planificación
    Client : Gulf Shade
    Structure: Estructura neumática de cojines de ETFE sobre arcos de Acero
    Material: ETFE natural + impreso, bordes de Alumnio + Acero
    Covered Area: 22.000 m2
    Photos: Gulf Shade

    Z3RCH:
    -Design and Engineering of ETFE cushion system.
    -Statics and Form Finding for ETFE cushions.
    -Definition o work pressure.
    -Proof Detailing connections for ETFE and Steel structure
    -Cutting Patterns of ETFE foil.
    -Supervision and consulting of Steel work design.

    Our second project in Middle East has been finished!
    The Marassi Galleria Mall located in the kingdom of Bahrain, with aprox. 200.000 sqm of useful areas!

    The Marassi Galleria Mall will host five interconnected lifestyle urban districts, each with a theme tailored to a specific customer taste: the high-street, the Family Plaza, a Waterfront Dining Promenade, an animated rooftop and The Luxury Courtyard. All this places will be interconnected under an ETFE Roof system of 22.000 sqm, allowing sunshine and a sky view while going through the mall.

    The structure consists of parallel steel arches that have a maximum span of 35 meters. The ETFE cushions run parallel to the arches to provide cover for the passage.

  • Lima University, Peru (2020)

    Lima University, Peru (2020)

    Project Data

    Design: Cidelsa
    Client: Cidelsa
    Structure: Free form neumatic structure, ETFE foil cushions + steel borders
    Material: ETFE natural + printed, Aluminum borders + Steel Structure
    Covered Area: 380 sqm
    Photos: Cidelsa

    Z3RCH:
    –Design and Engineering of ETFE cushion system.
    -Statics and Form Finding for ETFE cushions.
    -Definition o work pressure.
    -Detailing connections.
    -Cutting Patterns of ETFE foil.

    At the end of 2019, the firm CIDELSA contact us to help them develop what would be the first ETFE Cushion Roof in Perú. The project was to cover the inner court of the new
    building of the University of Lima, a building with LEED certification.

    The project consist of 22 ETFE cushion with a triangular form. These cushion are fixed on the border to a steel structure. The ETFE cushion boders spans up to ten meters on the longest side. The work of z3rch was mostly to advice the client on the design process of ETFE cushions, since they can not build in every form and dimension. After this design process was achieved we were able to finalize the calculation and produce the pattern to be able to build the ETFE panels.

    After the realization of the project, Perú has it first ETFE cushion roof oh his Architectural history.

  • 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

  • The Harbor, Merida, Mexico (2018)

    The Harbor, Merida, Mexico (2018)

    Project data

    Design: Lonas Lorenzo
    ETFE planning: z3rch
    Cutting pattern ETFE: form-TL
    Assembly: Lonas Lorenzo
    ETFE roof system: 3dtex
    Structure: ETFE cushion
    Material: ETFE IR-Cut + steel + aluminium
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.850 sqm
    photos: 3dtex

    The project consist in 2 halls and the main walkway of the shopping mall, where the main idea was to have the feeling of being outside but with a better thermal sensation, the project consist in a variable radial structure where you have a repetitive arch that contains a cushion of ETFE and one part of TX30 that increase the size along the walkway to create a soft and enjoyable natural lighting.

    The client requested a roof that fulfill the requirements of the thermal study they have from the first analysis made for a glass roof, then the first thing to do was to find the combination of ETFE properties that fills the G values asked by the client and to make bigger spaces than the original glass proposal.

    The unique about the project was the combination of materials, and how to make the installation of these two materials, we create a drain in between the cushions and the steel structure to have a clean set of materials.

     

  • Paseo Acoxpa – Mexico City (2018)

    Paseo Acoxpa – Mexico City (2018)

    Project data

    Arquitect: Grupo Arquitech
    Cutting patterns ETFE: z3rch
    Structure: ETFE Kissen überdachung
    Material: ETFE IR-Cut 250µm + Natural printed 200 µm
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.000 sqm
    photos: 3dtex


    Paseo Acoxpa is an outdoor shopping center of 56,000 square metres opened in 2010 in colonia Ex-Hacienda Coapa, Mexico City.

    The project consist of a roof of 67 m long and 16 m wide in the form of a half cylinder. The steel structure describing the half cylinder was done with arches that cross their self to form equal diamond areas between the arches.

    Every diamond was covered with an ETFE cushion, making a total of 235 cushion to be confection and installed. 3 types of cushion where needed to complete the 1.685 sqm of roof surface area.

  • 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.

  • 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


  • Monastery Lehnin, Germany (2014)

    Monastery Lehnin, Germany (2014)

    Project data

    Architect: Ruge Architekten
    Engineering: z3rch
    Structure: Tensigrity structure with loop cable
    Material: PVC/PES membrane, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 55 sqm
    photos: 3dtex, z3rch

    The City Hall of Monastery Lehnin, near Berlin, was looking for a structure that would provide sun protection for a tourist information pavilion made entirely of glass. The designed structure is a tensegrity, ie, it is held only by the final membrane tension. The form finding process took an incredible amount of time to find for stability and center positioning of the masts. Using computational methods for “form finding” we could not reach the goal of centering the mast loop cable. Because of that, we turn to do physical models, to study the natural behavior of the form we were looking for. After studying these physical models we went back to computational models with experimental and tangible understanding of what we wanted to build. So we decided to build a perfectly vertical tension cable that allowed us to center the mast. With this design we also managed to decrease the diameter of the perforation of the membrane or loop cable achieving a greater covered area.

  • Ice Rink Effretikon, Switzerland (2013)

    Ice Rink Effretikon, Switzerland (2013)

    Project data

    Engineering: studio briegert + z3rch
    Structure: Ridge and valley cable structure
    Material: PTFE glass membrane, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 900 sqm
    photos: HPGasser


  • 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.

     

  • Pyraeus shopping mall – Athen, Greece (2009)

    Pyraeus shopping mall – Athen, Greece (2009)

    Project data

    Architect: Conran & Partners, London + Diarchon, Athen
    Engineering: form-TL
    Structure: Retractable roof + ETFE cushions
    Material: Silicon fiber glas membrane, ETFE, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 3.400 sqm
    photos: form-TL


  • Riverside Vallenar, Chile (2015)

    Riverside Vallenar, Chile (2015)

    Project data

    Design: SurFace
    Engineering: z3rch
    Structure: Tensigrity structure with loop cable
    Material: PVC/PES membrane, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 120 sqm
    photos: surface

  • Bus terminal Limburg an der Lahn, Germany (2008)

    Bus terminal Limburg an der Lahn, Germany (2008)

    Project data

    Architect: Stadt Land Bahn SLB
    Engineering: form-TL
    Structure: Tensioned membrane
    Material: PVC/PES membrane, steel + steel cables
    Covered Area: 330 sqm
    photos: form-TL, Stadt Limburg