TUESDAY, 4th JUNE

 

Welcome                                                                8:45 AM

 

SOFTENING THE ENVIRONMENT

 

Keynote lectures                                  9:00 - 10:20 AM

 

Coffee break                                          10:20 - 10:40 AM

 

JOINED IASS WG18 SEMINAR       10:40 - 11:00 AM

 

Plenary session                                  11:00 - 12:55 AM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 2:00 PM

 

Parallel session 2.1:

PERFORMANCES & RELIABILITY OF SOFT MATERIALS                                               2:00 - 4:25 PM

 

Parallel session 2.2:

TOWARDS NEW MATERIALITIES & SOFT SPACES                                                      2:00 - 4:25 PM

 

Coffee break                                              4:25 - 4:45 PM

 

Plenary OPEN TALK                            4:45 - 6:00 PM  

 

Tensinet Partners Meeting                   6:00 - 7:00 PM

 

POLIMI LABS visit                                     6:00 - 6:50 PM

 

SOCIAL DINNER                                                     7:45 PM

Castello Sforzesco, Ducal Courtyard

MONDAY, 3rd JUNE

 

Registration & Welcome                                  9:00 AM

 

SOFT STRUCTURES

 

Keynote lectures                                   9:20- 10:40 AM

 

Coffee break                                          10:40 - 11:00 AM

 

Plenary session                                  11:00 - 12:40 AM

 

IN.TENSION opening                      12:40 - 12:55 PM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 2:00 PM

 

Parallel session 1.1:

DESIGN & SIMULATION

OF SOFT STRUCTURES                      2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                              3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

DESIGN & SIMULATION

OF SOFT STRUCTURES                      4:00 - 5:40 PM

 

Parallel session 1.2:

AIR-SUPPORTED & PNEUMATIC

STRUCTURES                                          2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                              3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

DEMOUNTABLE STRUCTURES       4:00 - 5:40 PM

 

FIELD TRIP A.                                             6:00 - 8:00 PM

"Hystorical & Modern Architecture"

FIELD TRIP B.                                            6:00 - 8:00 PM  "Contemporary Architecture"

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 5th JUNE

 

Welcome                                                                8:45 AM

 

SOFT SKINS

 

Keynotes lectures                                9:00 - 10:20 AM

 

Coffee break                                         10:20 - 10:40 AM

 

Plenary session                                  10:40 - 12:45 AM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 2:00 PM

 

Parallel session 3.1:

SOFT SKINS FOR THE

BUILT ENVIRONMENT                         2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                              3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

SOFT SKINS FOR THE

BUILT ENVIRONMENT                         4:00 - 5:30 PM

 

Parallel session 3.2:

THERMAL, OPTICAL

& ACOUSTIC COMFORT                      2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                              3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

THERMAL, OPTICAL

& ACOUSTIC COMFORT                      4:00 - 5:30 PM

 

Conclusion                                                 5:30 - 6:30 PM

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Coordinators:

Carol Monticelli, Alessandra Zanelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Adriana Angelotti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Paolo Beccarelli

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Katja Bernert

Low & Bonar GmbH, Huckelhoven, Germany

 

Heidrun Bögner-Balz

Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, DEKRA, Germany

 

Andrea Campioli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Roberto Canobbio

Canobbio Textile Engineering, Italy

 

Valter Carvelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

John Chilton

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Jan Cremers

Hochschule für Technik, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Lars De Laet

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Günther Filz

Aalto University, Finland

 

Christoph Gengnagel

Universität der Künste, Germany

 

Peter Gosling

Newcastle University, School of Engineering, United Kingdom

 

Sebastian Koch

Koch membranes, Germany

 

Nikolai Kugel

arch22, Germany

 

Julian Lienhard

str.ucture GmbH, Germany

 

Josep Llorens

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Claudia Marano

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Marijke Mollaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Carol Monticelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Giorgio Novati

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Arno Pronk

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Andrea Ratti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Monika Rychtáriková

KU Leuven, Belgium / STU Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Franck Schoefs

Université de Nantes, France

 

Bernd Stimpfle

formTL GmbH, Germany

 

Natalie Stranghöner

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Martin Tamke

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

 

Patrick Teuffel

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Jean-Christophe Thomas

Université de Nantes, France

 

Jörg Uhlemann

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Alessandra Zanelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Keynote of the

Soft Structures

plenary Session

CHRISTOPH PAECH Director at SBP, Stuttgart, Germany He is director at schlaich bergermann partner, an internationally renowned office of independent consulting engineers based in Stuttgart. sbp’s team of structural engineers has extensive experience in large-scale lightweight structures and lately won the interdisciplinary competition to design a roof for the historic Arena di Verona. The winning design provided for an innovative mechanism, involving a fan-shaped movable cable network and the roofing membrane, that can be fully retracted into the compression ring. Moveable structures can indeed be found in many of sbp’s previous projects. Among these, the most notable roofs are the ones of the Vienna City Hall Courtyard, the National Stadia in Warsaw and Bucharest and the B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. The lecture will focus on recent developments in the field of retractable membrane structures, which are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also improve the flexibility and sustainability of different venues.
JULIAN LIENHARD (Dr.) Managing Director, str.cture GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany He is managing director at the structural engineering consultancy firm str.cture, a company specialised in lightweight design solutions. In addition, visiting professor at HCU Hamburg in 2016 and 2017, he is lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna. He is co-author of the specialist book “Construction Manual for Polymers + Membranes” (Birkhauser ed.). His research focuses on the principles of lightweight structures and in particular on the form-finding process of hybrid structures. His work has been awarded internationally several times and, by following on the footsteps of Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch, he has established his place as a relevant expert in the scientific community.

Keynote of the

Soft Structures

plenary ession

Keynote of the

Softening the Environment plenary session

Maibritt Pedersen Zari (Dr.) Senior Lecturer Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture, Wellington, New Zealand Her research investigates the role of emulating ecosystems in order to change design goals from sustainable to regenerative development. She works with the integration of complex social factors into sustainable architectural design. Her lecture will explore the concept of regenerative design and how cross-semination between ecology, biology and architecture could provide solutions to climatic, biodiversity, and human wellbeing challenges of the future and potentially alter the urban habitats that surround us into softer or more organic and symbiotic environments.

 

Keynote of the

Softening the Environment plenary session

NEVEN SIDOR Partner, Grimshaw, UK Neven Sidor is currently senior partner and lead architect at Grimshaw, an international, award-winning architectural firm rooted in design innovation and research into sustainability shown in landmark projects such as the British Pavilion -Seville Expo, the Eden Project in Cornwall. Chairman Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was recently awarded a RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 2019, for a lifetime achievement in the discipline. Neven Sidor has been working with Grimshaw since its foundation in 1980 and he played a key role in positioning the firm as a global leader (i.e. Bijlmer Station in Amsterdam – shortlisted for the Stirling Prize – and the Waterloo International Terminal). His lecture will introduce a wide range of projects at Grimshaw, with a particular focus on the design of the upcoming Dubai Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion. Long-life, flexibility and an efficient use of materials are key facets of Grimshaw’s approach to sustainability, as summarised in the design process of this pavilion. Its form results from a complex site analysis and explorations on both structural form and roofing, as well as succeeding performance criteria according to the extremities of the local climate.
NORIHIDE IMAGAWA Honorary Professor, School of Architecture, Tokyo Denki University and Director of TIS&PARTNERS, Japan Norihide Imagawa is one of the leading seismic design professional in Japan; he defines himself as a surgical architect, actually: “if the performance of the material lives in the framework and form, architecture will have a long life”. He is the designer of more of 2.000 projects realized around the world. Among them, the Hakone Open-Air Forest Museum Net, an organically shaped playground equipment made by knitting nylon rope of different colours, which technology has been applied to different context successfully, e.g. Net Art in MACRO, 2013. He is also the developer of CO2 Eco-structure, an eco-material designed to prevent global warming by absorbing CO2 and discharging O2. METTE RAMSGAARD THOMSEN Professor, Head of Centre for IT and Architecture - CITA Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark Her research intersects between architecture and computer science, with a special contribution on reintroducing knitted fabrics into tensile structures. Within the CITA group, she pioneers experimental projects that show the potential optimisation of CNC-knitted fabrics, which makes these textiles go beyond traditional tensile skins and makes them perform one more function. The lecture will focus on how these seemingly-soft knitted skins can be paired with bending-active elements to achieve very robust tensile architecture.

Keynote of the

Softening the Environment plenary session

Keynote of the

Soft Skins

plenary session

Jan Knippers (Prof. Dr.-ing.) Head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design - ITKE, University of Stuttgart, Germany His interest is in innovative and resource-efficient structures created at the intersection of research and development and practice. Since 2014 Jan Knippers has been the lead coordinator of the DFG collaborative research centre TRR141 Biological Design and Integrative Structures, a collaboration between the Universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen and Freiburg. He is a member of national and European code committees for fibre composites, namely CEN/TC 250/WG 4 “Prospect for New Guidance in the Design of FRP”. He is author of several books, numerous scientific publications, is a member of various advisory boards (i.e. German Science Foundation) and is frequently invited to speak at national and international conferences.

Keynote of the

Soft Skins

plenary session

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MONDAY, 3 JUNE

 

Registration & Welcome                                  9:00 AM

 

SOFT STRUCTURES

Chaired by Marijke Mollaert and Bernd Stimpfle

 

Keynote lectures                                  9:20 - 10:40 AM

 

Coffee break                                          10:40 - 11:00 AM

 

Plenary session                                  11:00 - 12:45 AM

 

Opening the exhibition                     12:45 - 1:00 PM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 1:45 PM

 

Parallel sessions:

MOVEMENT IN LIGHTWEIGHT  STRUCTURES

Chaired by Natalie Stranghöner and Martin Tamke

 

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF SOFT STRUCTURES                                           2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                             3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF SOFT

STRUCTURES                                           4:00 - 5:40 PM

 

RECENTLY BUILT STRUCTURES

Chaired by Josep Llorens and Jean-Cristophe Thomas

 

AIR-SUPPORTED & PNEUMATIC

STRUCTURES                                           2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                              3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

DEMOUNTABLE STRUCTURES          4:00 - 5:40 PM

 

Field trips (FT) |

A. Hystorical and Modern

Architecture                                               6:00 - 7:30 PM

B. Contemporary Architecture           6:00 - 7:30 PM

 

 

TUESDAY, 4 JUNE

 

Welcome                                                                9:00 AM

 

SOFTENING THE ENVIRONMENT

Chaired by Carol Monticelli and Peter Gosling

 

Keynote lectures                                  9:00 - 10:20 AM

 

Coffee break                                          10:40 - 11:00 AM

 

Plenary session                                  11:00 - 12:55 AM

 

Exhibition / Poster session                 1:00 - 1:45 PM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 1:45 PM

 

Parallel session:

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPATIBLE MEMBRANE STRUCTURES

 

PERFORMANCES & RELIABILITY OF SOFT MATERIALS                                                2:00 - 4:25 PM

Chaired by Marijke Mollaert and Peter Gosling

 

TOWARDS NEW MATERIALITIES & SOFT SPACES

Chaired by Alessandra Zanelli and Gunther Filz

                                                                       2:00 - 4:25 PM

 

Coffee break                                             4:30 - 4:45 PM

 

Plenary OPEN TALK

Chaired by Katia Bernert

On the main topics of the

TensiNet Working Groups                  4:45 - 6:00 PM

 

Tensinet Partner Meeting                     6:00 - 7:00 PM

 

Social Dinner at Castello Sforzesco, Rocchetta Courtyard                                                               8:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, 5 JUNE

 

Welcome                                                                9:00 AM

 

SOFT SKINS

Chaired by Alessandra Zanelli and Julien Lienhard

 

Keynotes lectures                                9:00 - 10:20 AM

 

Coffee break                                         10:40 - 11:00 AM

 

Plenary session                                  10:40 - 12:20 AM

 

Exhibition / Poster session                 1:00 - 1:45 PM

 

Lunch break                                               1:00 - 1:45 PM

 

Parallel sessions:

ADAPTIVITY OF MEMBRANE-BASED SKINS

Chaired by Adriana Angelotti and Benson Lau

 

SOFT SKINS FOR

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT                 2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                             3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

SOFT SKINS FOR

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT                 4:00 - 5:40 PM

 

ADAPTIVITY OF TRANSPARENT FOIL-BASED SKINS

Chaired by Giorgio Novati and Monika Rychtáriková

 

THERMAL, OPTICAL

& ACOUSTIC COMFORT                      2:00 - 3:40 PM

 

Coffee break                                             3:40 - 4:00 PM

 

THERMAL, OPTICAL

& ACOUSTIC COMFORT                        4:00 - 5:40 PM    

 

Conclusion                                                 6:00 - 6:30 PM

AGENDA
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Josep Llorens

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Claudia Marano

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Marijke Mollaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Carol Monticelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Giorgio Novati

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Arno Pronk

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Andrea Ratti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Monika Rychtáriková

KU Leuven, Belgium

 

Franck Schoefs

Université de Nantes, France

 

Bernd Stimpfle

formTL GmbH, Germany

 

Natalie Stranghöner

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Martin Tamke

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

 

Patrick Teuffel

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Jean-Christophe Thomas

Université de Nantes, France

 

Jörg Uhlemann

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Alessandra Zanelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

 

Adriana Angelotti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Paolo Beccarelli

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Katja Bernert,

Low & Bonar GmbH, Huckelhoven, Germany

 

Heidrun Bögner-Balz

DEKRA, Germany

 

Andrea Campioli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Roberto Canobbio

Canobbio Textile Engineering, Italy

 

Valter Carvelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

John Chilton

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Jan Cremers

Hochschule für Technik, Germany

 

Günther, Filz

Aalto University, Finland

 

Lars De Laet

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Christoph Gengnagel

Universität der Künste, Germany

 

Peter Gosling

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

 

Sebastian Koch

Koch membranes, Germany

 

Nikolai Kugel

arch22, Germany

 

Julian Lienhard

str.ucture GmbH, Germany

 

 

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Coordinators:

Carol Monticelli, Alessandra Zanelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Adriana Angelotti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Paolo Beccarelli

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Katja Bernert,

Low & Bonar GmbH, Huckelhoven, Germany

 

Heidrun Bögner-Balz

Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, DEKRA, Germany

 

Andrea Campioli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Roberto Canobbio

Canobbio Textile Engineering, Italy

 

Valter Carvelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

John Chilton

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

 

Jan Cremers

Hochschule für Technik, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Lars De Laet

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Günther, Filz

Aalto University, Finland

 

Christoph Gengnagel

Universität der Künste, Germany

 

Peter Gosling

Newcastle University, School of Engineering, United Kingdom

 

Sebastian Koch

Koch membranes, Germany

 

Nikolai Kugel

arch22, Germany

 

Julian Lienhard

str.ucture GmbH, Germany

 

Josep Llorens

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Claudia Marano

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Marijke Mollaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Carol Monticelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Giorgio Novati

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Arno Pronk

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Andrea Ratti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Monika Rychtáriková

KU Leuven, Belgium / STU Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Franck Schoefs

Université de Nantes, France

 

Bernd Stimpfle

formTL GmbH, Germany

 

Natalie Stranghöner

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Martin Tamke

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

 

Patrick Teuffel

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

Jean-Christophe Thomas

Université de Nantes, France

 

Jörg Uhlemann

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Alessandra Zanelli

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Walter Zech

Eccon, Germany

 

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