Mitteilungen des Instituts für Leichte Flächentragwerke (Il), Universität Stuttgart = Information of the Institute for Lightweight Structures (Il), University of Stuttgart / Universität Stuttgart: Zelte = Tents

Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke; Sonderforschungsbereich Weitgespannte Flächentragwerke

Zelte = Tents (IL16, 1976)

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Titel:: Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. Technisch-wissenschaftliche Prüf- und Beratungsstellen

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Up to then, fewer than 1 % of the seams were in danger We did not know whether these were indivi- dual cases of negligence or whether it was a general condition. The intact seams proved themselves durable under the short-term tearing test: the fabric tore, the seams did not. | glued a thermometer underneath the white skin. At the end of May, 1957, | recorded an air temperature of approximately 30° C in the shade without any wind ~ and this in Berlin! Beneath the skin under full sunshine the temperature was 70°. Still more seams opened. For the first time the danger arose which many tent makers had to battle with in the course of the next 15 years: the creeping of glued and/ or welded seams under increased temperatures. Peter Stromeyer decided to reinforce the seams of our hall with strips from below as soon as a seam started moving. "Uhu" glues everything, and so it was in our sase too. Thanks to the Mero-grid of the roof structure repairs were possible. Right up to the end of the Interbau two men were occupied with gluing the seams. They climbed about on the roof like monkeys, while beneath them thousands of visitors critically admired the interesting but not quite so new exhibition "The City of Tomorrow". Lightening and waves could be seen. Next to it was "Energy of the Sky" or something similar. But there was also new furniture and several models of planned cities. ! was afraid that because of the opening seams my career as a tent builder was finished. True, rain did not peneirate, but the patches were not very aesthetic. However, help came, as it so often does: industrial soot and dust from the building site covered the roof with a thick coating. It was still light enough inside. In July it did rain. The rain drove the dirt into streaks precisely along the lines of the steepest slopes. This looked as interesting as if an artist had done it. When the best-known architectural journal of the time, "L’ Architecture d’ Aujourd’ hui", published a thick booklet on the Interbau, this roof was its cover picture. Peter Stromeyer’s tents were (as always, only under my name) described in much more detail than any other structure of the then famous old masters who had erected the permanent housing units. This success helped to make our work internationally known in one stroke. But this was by no means so good. Design jobs for and in Berlin were no longer available, at least for myself. | have never understood why. i'd "276 Story No. 16: THE STORM From May, 1957 on, we knew that our tents at the Interbau were in danger when the temperatures rose. Fortunately there is no wind at these temperatures. This showed itself to be the case on the unforgettable July 7, 1957. Theodor Heuss, then President of the Federal Republic of Germany, gave a remarkable speech at the inauguration of the Interbau which revealed the former building historian what he was. The Symphony Orchestra was playing in a tent, which we had deve~ loped for this special occasion (Bibliography: 2, p. 74-75). Immediately after the ceremony we pulled it down. In the evening there was to have been a fireworks dis- play. Instead there was a thunderstorm that drove away the hot, high-pressure front with winds of 110 km per hour. It was the heaviest storm since the end of war. Ewald Bubner, Dieter Frank, Siegfried Lohs, and | were still in the area of the Interbau, near the humped tent of the cafe at the Bellevue castle, because a few nails still had to be driven. The storm raised dust, tore the leaves from the trees, and knocked over whole rows of them. We all thought : if the large hall flies away, it will come directly at us. We fought our way through the dark dirty air against the storm. Only the exhibition boards of the "City of Tomorrow" greeted us on our way. The tent roof "was standing”, as if it were immobile. Nothing had happened to it. However, not much had remained of the “City of Tomorrow" exhibit, Fosters and even the roofs of lighter pavilions covered the streets. | managed to hail a taxi. It drove over a thick sroken glass roof before | was able to check pavilion after pavilion. There was much damage in Berlin. Hundreds of frees were uprooted, a railway station collapsed, and people were killed. At the Interbau one tent-restaurant flew away. lf was the only tent structure that we had not assembled. Approximately 12,000 m2 of canvas the roofs and walls of 15 Stro- neyer tents, and not one square meter was missing. During the night | called my friend at Constance and his comment was: "Fantastic, man 1". Photo right Water spout off the Jugoslavian coast, August 1976

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