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1. Stadiums
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Sports complexes including athletics, swiming, cycling, gymnastics, tennis, basketball, hockey and other large enclosures. These structures will often involve tensioned membrane roof panels, large ...
Created on 12 February 2015
2. Spaceframes, Cablenets, Glazing
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Projects in this category include non-prestressed structures such as domes and shells made from more traditional materials like concrete. Prestressed structures may include saddle shaped cablenets, ...
Created on 12 February 2015
3. Projects
(Category)
...  Shadecloth Structures Large Fabric Structures (larger than 1000 sqm) Glazing and Facades Stadiums Other forms of structures such as cablenets, spaceframes, domes Footbridges Special Applications ...
Created on 09 February 2015
4. Awards
(Category)
...  LARGE STRUCTURES       Project area exceeds 1,000m2 GLAZING AND VERTICAL FACADES Large span glazing walls or roofs, other forms of lightweight facades (cablenets etc) to control interior environments. ...
Created on 09 February 2015
5. 2011 LSAA Design Awards
(Category)
... or component area exceeds 1,000m2 5 GLAZING AND VERTICAL FACADES Large span glazing walls or roofs, other forms of lightweight facades (cablenets etc) to control interior environments. 6 DESIGN AND ...
Created on 11 February 2015
6. Frei Otto Cablenet Structures
(LSAA 2016 Conference)
Below are a few of his early cablenet structures - The IL, German Pavilion at Montreal 67 Expo and Munich Olympic Stadium Structures.  Photo credits: Peter Kneen
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Physical model of the cablenet structure
German Pavilion Expo 1967
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Frei Otto developed the free form cablenet roof structure for the striking German Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal World Expo. There was a tensioned fabric skin suspended below the cable net.
German Pavilion Expo 1967
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Details of the acrylic sheets showing multiple rubber supports to the cablenet under. Large amounts of expansion and contraction in the sheets lead to a system of flexible rubber gutters between the sheets.
Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Stadium Entrance Area
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Munich Stadium Entrance Area
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Munich Stadium Entrance Area
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Munich Swiming Complex
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Stadium Entrance Area
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Frei Otto developed the free form cablenet roof structure for the striking German Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal World Expo. There was a tensioned fabric skin suspended below the cable net.
Expo 1967 Details
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Frei Otto developed the free form cablenet roof structure for the striking German Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal World Expo. There was a tensioned fabric skin suspended below the cable net.
German Pavilion Expo 1967
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Prior to the German Pavilion at Expo 1967, Otto developed a smaller cablenet structure featuring a high peaked central mast. It housed his Institute for Lightweight Structures
Frei Otto IL Building Stuttgart
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Frei further developed the free formed stressed cablenets for the stadia at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The cladding used large flat rectangular sheets of acrylic supported by flexible rubber pads above the cablenet.
Munich Olympic Stadiums
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The now familiar saddle shaped anticlastic stressed surfaces which resist both uplift and downward loads. Nowadays seen more with tensioned fabric structures
Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Mast details
Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Main stadium edge cable
Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Munich Olympic Stadiums
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Created on 14 June 2016
7. 2011 Awards for Categories 5, 6 and 7
(2011 LSAA Design Awards)
Entries for Category 5 – GLAZING AND VERTICAL FACADES Large span glazing walls or roofs, other forms of lightweight facades (cablenets etc) to control interior environments. Jagged Edge: Aurecon Category ...
Created on 26 January 2021
8. 2009 Melbourne Site Visits
(Site Visits)
... with the spire design by Peter Kneen through John Connell - later Aurecon). A pleasant stroll across the Botanical Gardens took us to an early wonderful example of a cablenet structure - the Sidney Myer ...
Created on 27 July 2020
9. Mandai Project Aviary
(Blogs and Posts)
... Safari. #MandaiProject #Nightsafari #Singapore #Tensionstructures #CablenetsVisitSingapore About This Website YOUTUBE.COM Mandai Project ...
Created on 12 July 2019
10. Carols by Candlelight Melbourne
(Blogs and Posts)
What an iconic venue in the Kings Domain in Melbourne! And Happy 60th Birthday!! WOW This is a unique tensile cablenet structure was designed by Barry Patten of the Architectural firm Yuncken Freeman ...
Created on 24 December 2018
11. Enclosure for Sumatran Tigers Project (2018)
(Spaceframes, Cablenets, Glazing)
  Application: Zoo Enclosure for Sumatran Tigers. This project was entered in the LSAA 2018 Design Awards (Cablenets, 4100) PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Sumatran Tiger Enclosure at Taronga Zoo consists ...
Created on 13 October 2018
12. The Fly Trap
(Blogs and Posts)
Lightweight Structures such as cablenets and tensioned fabric structures often exhibit relatively large deformations under changing loads. Rock climbers will rely on the extension characteristics of ...
Created on 08 August 2018
13. 2016 Conference Program Outline
(LSAA 2016 Conference)
... of the remarkable German Engineer - Architect Frei Otto who passed away in 2015. He had a profound impact on the use of new structural forms and materials. His work covered cablenets, fabric structures, ...
Created on 23 May 2016
14. The Legacy of Frei Otto
(LSAA 2016 Conference)
... These shapes were often formed using elaborate soap film models where the edge boundaries were defined by thin wires. Internal points using needles and smaller loops of wire produced the dramatic cablenet ...
Created on 23 February 2016
15. Frei Otto Awarded 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize Posthumously
(Industry News)
... move to adopt large span lightweight structures using fabrics, timber gridshells and cablenets. He was very passionate about sharing his knowledge and ideas through the establishment of the Institute ...
Created on 17 March 2015
16. LSAA 2011 Conference and Awards Sydney - Proceedings
(LSAA Proceedings)
... and supplying materials and components for a range of lightweight structures. Projects cover tensioned membranes, cablenets, cable supported roofs, steel arches, high tech glazing wall facades and roofs. ...
Created on 22 February 2015
17. Glazing and Facades Introduction
(Spaceframes, Cablenets, Glazing)
Other Structural Forms - Cablenets, Glazing, Facades, Spaceframes The LSAA has groups of members interested in cablenets, high technology glazing and facades. In fact one main reason for the creation ...
Created on 20 February 2015
18. LSAA Design Award Categories
(Awards)
... area exceeds 1,000m2 GLAZING AND VERTICAL FACADES Large span glazing walls or roofs, other forms of lightweight facades (cablenets etc) to control interior environments. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION COLLABORATION ...
Created on 16 February 2015
19. Auckland Zoo Aviaries
(Large Fabric Structures)
  LSAA 2011 Design Award Entry (4322): Cablenet Zoo Aviaries  APPLICATION OF PROJECT  As part of a major upgrade to Auckland Zoo, Fabric Structure Systems built four new aviaries to accommodate different ...
Created on 13 February 2015
20. Sydney Wildlife World
(Spaceframes, Cablenets, Glazing)
Entered into the LSAA 2007 Design Awards (3837) Project Category Cablenets Entrant: UFS Australasia Pty Ltd Client: Sydney Attractions Group Architect: Misho & Associates/ RIHS Architects – Misho ...
Created on 12 February 2015
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