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Vision Tower: a project by the Institute for Constructive Design wins two awards

Stuttgart Lightweight Construction Prize 2023 awards 2 out of 4 prizes to Darmstadt

2024/04/30 by

In the Constructive Design course, students from the winter semester 202/2023 developed various efficient and particularly lightweight bridge constructions made almost exclusively from cardboard. Two of the designs were developed to production maturity by two student groups in the following semester in the Constructive Design Project module and have now been awarded two prizes at the Stuttgart Lightweight Construction Prize. The award ceremony will take place as part of the specialist congress on structural engineering at the Technical Academy in Esslingen on 18/19 June 24

The two towers have a height of approx. 3.6 meters and consist of thin ropes and digitally manufactured wooden components. In addition, precisely fitting 3D printed moulded parts and very thin tension cables were used to maximize the load-bearing effect. Lightweight constructions have the potential to make a valuable contribution to sustainable construction in the future. They are inexpensive to produce and consist largely of renewable raw materials. Their only “disadvantage” is that you have to invest considerably more “thought” in the upstream planning steps. This is then generally more than compensated for by significant material savings, better load-bearing capacity and visual advantages (elegance).

Both towers were designed with the aim of achieving a greater height and thus being constructed in an intelligent and resource-saving manner. The resulting constructions are characterized by elegance, stability, durability and a low dead weight.

Project participants:

First group: Luca Niklas Stein, Nils Valentin Lingenfelder, Moritz Kleiner Carl

Second group: Tafili Emis, Noor Aldarwish, Mohammadjavad Boroumandi

Supervision:

Professor Dipl.-Ing. Architect Stefan Schäfer, M.Sc. Nikola Bisevac