Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall
Robotically Fabricated Lightweight Timber Shell
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, 2014
The Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall will be constructed in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 2014. The robotically fabricated lightweight timber shell constitutes an integral part and demonstrator of the research project Robotic Fabrication in Timber Construction, which is a collaborative undertaking of the ICD Institute for Computational Design, the ITKE Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, and the IIGS Institute of Engineering Geodesy of the University of Stuttgart and the timber construction company MüllerBlaustein. The research is supported by the industrial robot manufacturer KUKA, the forestry department of the state of Baden-Württemberg (ForstBW) and the Landesgartenschau Schwäbisch Gmünd 2014. The robotic prefabrication process will start in January 2014 and the completion of the building is expected four months later.
The development of the project can be followed on the ICD webpage and on FACEBOOK.
PROJECT TEAM
ICD Institute for Computational Design
Prof. A. Menges (PI), Tobias Schwinn, Oliver David Krieg
ITKE Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design
Prof. J. Knippers, Jian-Min Li
IIGS Institute of Engineering Geodesy
Prof. Volker Schwieger, Annette Schmitt
müllerblaustein Bauwerke GmbH
Reinhold Müller, Benjamin Eisele
KUKA Roboter GmbH
Alois Buchstab, Frank Zimmermann
Landesbetrieb Forst Baden-Württemberg
Sebastian Schreiber, Frauke Brieger
Landesgartenschau Schwäbisch Gmünd 2014 GmbH
Karl-Eugen Ebertshäuser, Sabine Rieger
PROJECT FUNDING
EFRE European Union
Clusterinitiative Forst und Holz Baden Württemberg
Landesgartenschau Schwäbisch Gmünd 2014 GmbH
müllerblaustein Bauwerke GmbH
KUKA Roboter GmbH
Landesbetrieb Forst Baden-Württemberg
PROJECT SUPPORT
Adler Deutschland GmbH
Autodesk GmbH
Carlisle Construction Materials GmbH
Fagus Stiftung
Gutex H. Henselmann GmbH & Co. KG
Hess & Co. AG
MPA - Materials Testing Institute, University of Stuttgart
Leitz GmbH & Co. KG
Spax International GmbH & Co. KG
PROJECT INFORMATION
Tobias Schwinn, University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Design
Andrea Mayer-Grenu, University of Stuttgart, University Communications
