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The Seventh Latin American Symposium of Tensile Structures will be held from 12^th until 14^th September 2018.

In July 2018, the annual Symposium of the IASS – International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures – will take place in Boston, an American hub of academics and innovation. Hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the symposium aims to bring together leading designers and researchers working in the fields of structural engineering and architecture from around the world.

The symposium theme, Creativity in Structural Design, celebrates work in the built environment that pushes beyond the status quo and synthesizes across disciplines to solve important problems of today and the future. Empowered by recent advances in computation, materials, and fabrication, creative structural design is expanding possibilities for shell and spatial structures.

IASS 2018 Boston will take place from July 16 to July 20 on the campus of MIT, with the iconic shell structure of Kresge Auditorium as the principal venue.

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

International platform for architects, engineers, scientists and the building industry

The aim of the Conference on Advanced Building Skins is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach by architects, engineers, scientists and manufacturers to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. By fostering a lively exchange between these groups, this conference will shed light on the significance of the building skin, with a view to putting scientific know-how into practice.

We are inviting you to present a paper on a topic falling within the scope of the conference, and to submit a proposal by 15 February, 2018. Below are the topics which will be covered in our Conference 2018.

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.

As proposed during our latest Partner Meeting the upcoming Partner Meeting 1/2018 and several WG meetings will be held at Dekra (Stuttgart) on Thursday 1^st March.

UPDATE

Wednesday 28th February

20.00  Dinner at Alte Kanzlei, Schillerplatz 5A, 70173 Stuttgart www.alte-kanzlei-stuttgart.de

Thursday 1st March

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival, coffee

09.30 – 10.00 Welcome

10.00 – 10.30 Partner meeting

10.30 – 11.30 WG Sustainability & Comfort

11.30 - 12.30 WG Pneumatic Structures

12.30 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 WG Eurocode

14.30 – 16.00 WG Good practice

16.00 Guided tours: analytical lab and lab for technical textiles and films

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