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International Conference on Advanced Building Skins

Presenting research projects in which the second skin façade is supported by the main building by a spring / damper system, and design projects where the façade structural is detached from the inner building.

On 30 May 2012 Joost Vos (Benthem Crouwel) and Arjan Habraken (SIDstudio – on behalf of Arup) will give a lecture on the architectural and structural aspects of the New Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

12:30 in the faculty Built Environment Eindhoven University of Technology

SIDstudio worked together with Olaf Gipser Architects on the competition entry for the “The House of the Future” in Berlin. The design is a highly functional and flexible exhibition building, showing a knowledge-based society and views into the world of tomorrow.

The monumental Hensencrane-13 in the NDSM area in Amsterdam-Noord will be completely renovated and 3 hotel rooms and a meeting room will be placed in the mast of the crane. SIDstudio is making the structural design.

On the 23th of February, for a one evening event on the Dam in Amsterdam, a presentation was given using a 120 m2 projection screen hung from the facade of the Bijenkorf building. Also a podium on the Dam was build for which two steel containers where used. SIDstudio provided the wind calculations for Rotterdam Rigging BV, to receive the approval from the municipality.

At the Technical University in Eindhoven in the atrium of the department Architecture, Building, and Planning, 3 anticlastic shaped cable net structures are hung. 24 students of the course Lightweight Structures designed the shapes with form finding, created an equal mesh and cutting pattern with Convers and produced the nets.

For the Staatsloterij New Year’s party 2012 on the Museum square in Amsterdam, the firm Airworks made two 12m high inflatable puppets. They where place on stage and moved towards each other so that they kiss at exactly 12 o’clock.

Last week the spectacular new facade of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is exposed.

The futuristic-looking form, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten, is made from Twaron, a material sponsored by the Japanese company Teijin Aramid. Twaron is used in aircraft, ships and bulletproof vests. This is the first time it is used in a façade. The facade is one hundred meters wide and extremely light: it weighs less than half of a usual facade.