An ultra-light fiber-composite shell at University of Stuttgart

The employees of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) actually got the inspiration for the design from spiders.

Simultaneously lightweight and stable like a spider’s thread: that is the hallmark of the University of Stuttgart’s 2014/2015 research pavilion. The employees of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) actually got the inspiration for the design from nature. The manner in which the water spider builds its nests under water served as the example.

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