Klaus Bollinger

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Klaus Bollinger (* 1952 in Spalt ) is a German civil engineer .

life and work

Bollinger studied at the TU Darmstadt (diploma 1979), then worked briefly in the construction industry and was assistant at Stefan Polónyi's chair in Dortmund from 1981 to 1984 , where he obtained his doctorate in 1984 ( on load-bearing behavior and reinforcement of rotationally symmetrical reinforced concrete slabs ). Your design for a (unrealized) suspended roof construction for the Höchst Ball Sports Hall caught the eye of the architect Peter Cook , who brought Bollinger to teach the architecture department at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1983 he founded the engineering office Bollinger und Grohmann in Frankfurt am Main with Manfred Grohmann , a fellow student in Darmstadt. In 1994 he became professor for structural design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . He also had lectureships at the University of Dortmund.

Bollinger and Grohmann were structural engineers for a number of spectacular architectures. Her projects include:

• BMW Blob, an acrylic glass pavilion modeled on two merging drops of water at the IAA 1999 (Architects Bernhard Franken, ABB)
• the BMW Welt Munich (architectural firm Coop Himmelb (l) au , Wolf D. Prix )
• The Rolex Learning Center of EPFL in Lausanne, with a flat, multi-curved concrete roof (architects Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA ).
• Extension of the Städelmuseum Frankfurt (architects Schneider + Schumacher ), an underground art gallery.
• Louvre-Lens (Architects SANAA)
• Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Center in Al Ain , United Arab Emirates (Chalabi Architects + Partners)
• New ECB building in the former Großmarkthalle Frankfurt am Main.
• Hungerburgbahn in Innsbruck (architect Zaha Hadid )
• Footbridge in Landsweiler-Reden (Architects FloSundK, Saarbrücken)
• Tetrahedron (Bottrop) and water level tower Großer Goitzschesee (architect Wolfgang Christ )

You work closely with architects and stand for an integrative approach to architecture and engineering based on the model of Stefan Polónyi, but have no influence on the architecture, but remain in the background. In addition to the architects mentioned above, they worked with Dominique Perrault , Frank Gehry , Hans Hollein , Boris Podrecca and Christoph Mäckler , among others . You work a lot with computer modeling and have your own Advanced Geometry department.

In 2013 they had an exhibition in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.

Bollinger and Grohmann have branches in Vienna (2003), Paris (2006), Melbourne (2010), Oslo (2010) and Berlin (2013).

literature

• Peter Cachola Schmal (Ed.): Workflow: Structure - Architecture, Klaus Bollinger + Manfred Grohmann, Birkhäuser 2004
• Christian Schittich (ed.): Bollinger and Grohmann GmbH, Munich, detail, 2013
• Klaus Bollinger: Atlas of modern steel construction: material, structural design, sustainability, Munich, Institute for International Architecture Documentation, 2011

Web links

• Bollinger and Grohmann
• Enrico Santifaller: The silent stars. Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann, Frankfurt am Main , German construction magazine 10/2009