TensiNet News

This Round Robin Exercise 4 is launched by the TensiNet Working Group Specifications and WG5 of the COST Action TU1303 Novel Structural skins and aims at collating reliability indexes for a basic tensioned hypar structure. The exercise is started by Ir.-Arch. Elien De Smedt, Prof. Marijke Mollaert, Prof. Lincy Pyl, Prof Peter Gosling, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Uhlemann and Prof. Jean-Christophe Thomas.

Research institutes, universities, specialised laboratories and engineering offices are invited to volunteer to the Round Robin exercise 4.

See http://www.tensinet.com/files/Announcement___calls/Round%20Robin%20exercise%20IV%20-%20call%20-%20version%202.pdf

DEADLINE EXTENTION until 31st of March, 2018

CALL FOR ABSTRACT

ICSA2019 – The 4th International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Lisbon, Portugal, July 24-26, 2019

The aim of ICSA2019 is to present research and developments on the merging of architecture and structural engineering and is intended for an audience of researchers and practitioners world-wide with a background in architecture and in structural engineering.

This is the world's leading and largest global conference bridging the gap between Structures and Architecture. The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures, on advanced technologies and on complex architectural and structural applications represent a fine blend of scientific, technical and practical novelties in both fields.

The conference will facilitate the meeting of international participants interested in the recent advances in the art, practice and theory of designing and building infrastructures in which the structural and architectonic values are consciously combined and the contribution of each other is mutually enhanced.

It includes architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, construction industry persons, academics, researchers, students, product manufacturers, material suppliers, project managers and contract administrators, asset managers, government authorities of infrastructure development and others.

Abstracts should be submitted by using in the restricted area of ICSA2019 webpage, in electronic form, before March, 15th, 2018. Abstracts will be subjected to a review process by at least two members of the scientific committee.

Authors will be notified about the preliminary acceptance of abstracts until May, 15th, 2018.

The proceedings will be published by Balkema (Taylor & Francis Group), including a book of extended two-page abstracts and a CD-ROM containing the full eight-page papers. These documents are due on November, 15th, 2018. Acceptance will be notified before February, 15th, 2019. Proceedings will be sent for indexation by both Thomson Reuters (Conference Proceedings Citation Index – ISI Proceedings) and Elsevier (Scopus and EI).

www.icsa2019.com

The 6th International TensiNet Symposium “Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures” will take place from the 3th to the 5th of June 2019 at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy.

The 2019 TensiNet Symposium (TS19) is organized and hosted by the TensiNet Association and in particular by Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) and Textile Hub, which is an interdepartmental research laboratory on textiles and polymers at PoliMi.

The 2019 TensiNet edition will open a twofold reflection - by means of both the conference (TS19Conf) and exhibition (TS19Exhib) - on current innovations, trends and strategies in the field of lightweight membrane structures and mainly on the future of those technologies, which the TensiNet Association is interested in: tensile and pneumatic structures, textile architecture, membranes and foils, ultra-lightweight constructions and structural skins.

The main topic are Soft Structures, Softening the Environment & Soft Skins.

The Call for Abstracts will be launched  beginning of 2018! More info on http://www.tensinet.com/files/Tensinet_Symposia/TS2019_Milan_Introduction.pdf 

We cordially invite you, the experts from the fields of Textile Technology - Chemistry and Engineering, Medical Technology, Membrane Technology and Fibre Composites

to submit abstracts for talks and poster presentations. Your abstract should address one of the following topics:

• Comfort and Luxur
  
• Textiles for Medicine and Health Car
  
• Electrofunctionality and Sensor
  
• High-Performance Material
  
• Fiber technology

Deadline abstract submission for oral presentations: February 15, 2018

Deadline abstract submission for poster presentations: August 31, 2018

Further information and templates can be found on our website http://www.aachen-dresden-denkendorf.de/en/itc/

We invite our TensiNet members to submit for the next TensiNews issue an article, project description, upcoming event, new development, research report or book review.

Send your contribution to evi.corne@vub.be. Deadline end of January 2018.

See http://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNewsflash/TensiNewsflash%20November%202017-1.pdf

Plastique Fantastique is a platform for temporary architecture which samples the performative possibilities of urban environments. Established in Berlin in 1999, Plastique Fantastique has been influenced by the unique circumstances that made the city a laboratory for temporary spaces and has specialised in creating pneumatic installations as alternative, adaptable, low energy spaces for temporary and ephemeral activities.
The transparent, lightweight and mobile shell structures relate to the notion of activating, creating and sharing public space and involving citizens in creative processes. They are in many ways the simplest of structures – a skin that separates but also connects. The result is a site specific installation that breathes new life into the city and makes the invisible visible.

At present Plastique Fantastique develops project-oriented teams to realise a wide range of projects worldwide, depending on the specific request.

See http://www.plastique-fantastique.de/Plastique-Fantastique

Installation "DER BANDWURM - I AM A PROBLEM"
Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt
23 September 2017 — 18 February 2018

See http://www.plastique-fantastique.de/DER-BANDWURM

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a comprehensive, internationally-harmonized report that documents the ways in which a product, throughout its lifecycle, affects the environment.

As the global leader in strong long-lasting architectural membranes, SHEERFILL has always been committed to working towards sustainability. As a result of our commitment, SHEERFILL is the only PTFE coated architectural membrane that is Energy Star and Cool Roof Rated.

“Our company is committed to producing materials that meet the highest levels of both performance and sustainability. The release of this document allows us to be transparent with SHEERFILL users and project owners about the products they are using so that they, too, can reach their sustainability and quality goals,” Michael Lussier, Global Market Leader for SHEERFILL said.

Time and time again, real-life use has shown that SHEERFILL Architectural Membrane provides up to 25 years or more of reliable service. The first installation of SHEERFILL II has been in continuous use, since 1973, at the University of La Verne.

SHEERFILL II is manufactured by Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest building materials company.

See http://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNewsflash/TensiNewsflash%20September%202017.pdf

This year the 14th edition of the student competition “Textile Structures for New Building” took place. The competition received many entries. Most contributions were inspiring, looking at functionalities from a fresh perspective, re-interpreting, showing creativity, changing the scale, integrating light, sound, new ideas for processes or methodologies, or showing refined poetic finishing. It was a pleasure to go through the well documented projects, varying from aesthetic inflated halls or improved living spaces for refugee camps to adaptable lightweight skins or panels integrating bending active elements, creating soft furniture systems, knitting or weaving wet concrete, wrapping wet threads or steering a self-active façade system made of a flexible basalt tissue.

When evaluating the entries, the jury mainly took into account the following criteria: feasibility, qualitative use of textile materials, level of innovation, aesthetics, ecological quality, resource efficiency, functionality and economic quality.

http://www.tensinet.com/files/Techtextil_Competitions/2017%20STW%20Broschuere%20FINAL.pdf