Buildings

The design of buildings is the most evident symbiosis of architectural vision and engineering necessity. One does not work without the other. However, a lot depends on the relationship, the combination and the harmony of the disciplines during the conceptual and detail design. Therein one finds the potential which sometimes brings forth the beautiful, the special or even the exceptional.

Private House Frankfurt/Main

STRUCTURAL DESIGN LP 1-8

Frankfurt/ Main, built in 2020-2022
Client: Private
Architects: Dietz Joppien Hammerschmidt Architekten
Pictures: © Annette Detzel

The construction project is a 3-story residential building with 2 residential units and an underground parking garage in Frankfurt/ Main.
The special feature of this project is not only to develop an optimal structural system that is serviceable, stable and economical but it should also be flexible and sustainable for future changes of use.
The building volume is partially displaced laterally between the individual floors and contains areas that cantilever out of the system. The exterior reinforced concrete walls act as wall-like beams to brace the upper floors to the underground parking garage.
Another challenge is the southwestern area, which requires a high degree of spatial flexibility. This necessitates a span of the supporting structure of approx. 7 to 8m. For this purpose, wide-span hollow core slabs were planned and implemented to reduce the dead load.
Furthermore, the option for an additional storey is to be considered. The basement was designed to be impermeable to water.

Bahnstraße Falkensee

STRUCTURAL DESIGN LP 5 – 8

Falkensee 2016-2017
Owner: private
Architect: mangold architekten bda, Berlin
Photo: TEC

Inner-city project of a commercial building in the centre of Falkensee with an area of around 5000m². The ground floor will be mainly used by catering facilities, the three upper floors are office spaces. Below the building with around 77m length is a parking garage reached by a car-lift. Due to the fact that the ground water level is close under the terrain surface a detailed planning of the watertight-concrete-construction was necessary. The neighbouring existing buildings are underpinned with high pressure injections.

Bauhaus museum, Dessau

STRUCTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION

(1st prize)
Dessau 2015
Architect: Young & Ayata, New York/em>

The new Bauhaus Museum Dessau will for the first time offer the opportunity to present the outstanding collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation to the public on a permanent basis under the best possible conservative conditions. The primary structure of the individual exhibition halls is made of composite timber ribs. Each rib can be cut from a flat timber panel using modern CNC technology.

Showpalast and EQUILALAND Munich

STRUCTURAL DESIGN LP 1 – 6

Munich 2016-2017
Owner: EQUILALAND
Architect: GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architekten GmbH, Berlin
General contractor: Adunic Deutschland GmbH, Berlin
Photo: TEC

In the north part of Munich close to the Allianz-Arena the EQUILALAND opens the worldwide first Horse-Themepark with an area of around 54000m²
The project includes a themepark with gastronomies, a riding-hall, different horse stables and pavilions, a horse training hall and a museum as well as an event hall for the flagship-show of Apassionata with approximately 1800 seats, a backstage area, a foyer and an administrative wing.

Secondary School, Wolfsburg, Germany

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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TO APPROVAL PLANNING

Wolfsburg / Germany 2011 – 2013
City of Wolfsburg
Architect: Kirstin Bartels Architektin, Oslo / Norway
Photo: Kirstin Bartels Architektin, Oslo / Norway

TEUFFEL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS won the architectural competition together with Norwegian architects for the extension of a school building dating
back to the Fifties. The three storey building has an agora in its centre. Continue reading →

Student Accommodation with day-care, Kassel, Germany

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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TO TENDER DOCUMENTS

Kassel / Germany 2012 – 2014
Client: Studentenwerk Kassel, Kassel / Germany
Architect: berger röcker architekten, Stuttgart / Germany
Photo: berger röcker architekten, Stuttgart / Germany

The project was commissioned by the Student Organization for the newly designed University of Kassel campus. It turned out to be a comprehensive student accommodation with 150 living units. The major task was to find an economical construction method for a building which contains a most diverse mix of use Continue reading →

HSV 21, Herschbach, Germany

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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TO DETAIL DESIGN

Herschbach / Germany 2012
Client: Herschbacher Sportverein, Herschbach / Germany
Architect: Markus Holzbach Architekten, Koblenz / Germany
Photo: Gros Fotografie, Stuttgart / Germany

Right from the beginning until completion TEUFEL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS accompanied the conception, planning and construction of this experimental building made of timber with metal components. Continue reading →

Fort Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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SCHEMATIC DESIGN TO TENDER DOCUMENTS

Abu Dhabi / UAE 2009 – 2010
Client: Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage
Architect: ASL, London / UK
with Strauss Architekten, Stuttgart / Germany
General contractor: Nüssli, Hüttwilen / Switzerland
Photos: Kudy Reuteler, Hüttwilen / Switzerland

The client brief was an almost impossible challenge to the engineers: In the centre of Abu Dhabi a temporary exhibition and information building should be conceived in such a way that it can be taken down several times and then rebuilt in different locations. Continue reading →

ESTA technology center

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TO APPROVAL PLANNING

Senden / Germany 2006 – 2008
Client: ESTA, Senden / Germany
Architect and General planner:
gerken.Architekten+ingenieure, Ulm / Germany
Design Consultant: Dirk Henning Braun,
Stuttgart / Germany

The very functional and reduced design appearance of this production and administrative building has also been designed from the engineering side as extremely lean and efficient. In order to achieve the utmost flexibility on the production levels the ground floor was planned as a two storey open plan space with only four columns. Continue reading →