Mahmoud Bodo Rasch

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Convertible large umbrellas on the piazza of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina

Mahmoud Bodo Rasch (born May 12, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect who specializes in the construction of large mobile umbrellas and lightweight architecture . He is founder and owner of the company SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures with branches in Leinfelden-Echterdingen , Dschedda , Mecca and Medina .

Life

"Mountain Tents", prototypes in Muna, SA, 1981

Rasch's mother, Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978), was a painter and graphic artist, and his father Bodo Rasch (1903–1995), together with his brother Heinz Rasch (1902–1996), belonged to the international architectural avant-garde of the 1920s. Following the artistic family tradition, the son began studying architecture at the University of Stuttgart in 1964 , which he graduated with a diploma in 1972. His sister Aiga Rasch (1941–2009), who was two years older than him, was an illustrator and graphic artist.

During his studies he became an employee of Frei Otto in 1967 in the Institute for Light Structures at the University of Stuttgart and in 1969 in the design and development office Atelier Frei Otto Warmbronn . Rasch led the work on the new building of the institute (originally the cable net construction was a prototype for the German Pavilion at the Expo 67 in Montreal ) and took over the project management for the first large mobile umbrellas, which Frei Otto designed and built for the Federal Garden Show in Cologne in 1971. This collaboration resulted in joint projects and a close friendship between the two architects. Frei Otto was a consultant in Rasch's team until his death.

In 1973 Rasch was visiting professor at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin , USA. In 1974 she took part in an urban planning competition for pilgrims' accommodation in the tent city in the Mina valley near Mecca. In the same year, Bodo Rasch converted to Islam and adopted the additional first name "Mahmoud".

Fireproof pilgrim tents, tent city in Muna, SA 1998

In 1975 Mahmoud Bodo Rasch founded the Hajj Research Center with Sami Angawi at the King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda, Saudi Arabia . His dissertation on the tent cities of the Hajj was published in 1980 in the series "Communications from the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart, IL 29 Tent Cities of the Hajj".

In 1980, Rasch founded the architectural office Rasch & Associates and in 1991 the company Sonderkonstruktionen und Leichtbau (SL GmbH), which has been operating as SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures since 1998. In 1998, Rasch's longstanding chief architect, Jürgen Bradatsch, became a partner in the Rasch und Bradatsch architectural office.

Rasch Frei and his team are continuing Otto's principles of lightweight construction on the basis of basic scientific research. His newly established team for Islamic design brings the minimal forms of lightweight construction into harmony with the forms of jewelry necessary in the context of sacred or sovereign buildings.

Rasch's longstanding commitment in the Middle East and the implementation of extremely adaptable lightweight structures led to spectacular large-scale projects for the holy places of Islam: In cooperation with highly specialized companies, he and his team developed such unusual projects as the world's largest clock tower and the spire of the Makkah Clock Tower , or 250 large mobile umbrellas that shade the piazza around the Prophet's mosque in Medina and protect the pilgrims from sun and rain.

Projects (selection)

Convertible umbrellas in the piazza of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, SA
  • 1972–1980 research projects and teaching in Germany , Italy , USA and Saudi Arabia
  • 1980 Dissertation on the "tent cities of Hajj"
  • 1981 Mountain Tents, mountain tents for Muna Saudi Arabia. With Sami Angawi and Frei Otto
  • 1985 Scientific climate studies "Climatic research for convertible roofs in Saudi Arabia"
  • 1986 Scientific study of the streams of pilgrims in the large mosques in Saudi Arabia
  • 1987 Umbrellas for the roof of the great mosque in Mecca, 5x5m umbrellas, solar powered
  • 1987 Toldo for the Qubāʾ Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
  • 1988 Movable roof for the open-air theater in Wiltz , Luxembourg .
  • 1990 Tents for the Beach Residence "Thuwal Palace" in Thuwal , Mecca Province , Saudi Arabia.
  • 1991 27 sliding domes over the courtyards of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia
Sliding domes in the Prophet's Mosque, Medina, interior with closed dome
  • 1992 12 large convertible umbrellas (17mx18m) for the two large inner courtyards of the Prophet's mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
  • 1992 Integrated lighting system for the piazza around the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia
  • 1994 Umbrellas in the courtyard of Schloss Wasseralfingen , Aalen , Württemberg
  • 1995 domes for the Guekdepe Mosque, Turkmenistan ,
  • 1996 Venice Biennale , star wave tent and 5x5m umbrellas, Venice , Italy
  • 1996 “Jubilee ship”, pneumatic construction for the University of the Arts , Berlin
  • 1997 Tents for a beach palace in Obhur, Saudi Arabia
  • 1998 “Maqam Ibrahim” shrine for the Al Haram (the Holy) Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 1999 Convertible tent roof for the Robinson Club on Fuerteventura , Spain
  • 1999 Domes and lighting system for the "Majid Wilayah Persekutuan", Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
  • 1999 Domes for Putra Mosque, Putrajaya , Malaysia
  • 1999 Fireproof pilgrim tents for the tent city in Muna, Saudi Arabia
  • 2000 round tents for the company Storek, Leonberg , Germany
  • 2000 convertible screens (16mx16m) in front of the Al Hussein Mosque, Cairo , Egypt
Abraj Al Bait Towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Four convertible umbrellas shade Sundance Square Plaza in downtown Fort Worth
  • 2000 “Kaaba Stairs” mobile stairs for the Kaaba in the Holy Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2000 Venezuela Pavilion at Expo 2000 , Hanover
  • 2001 Tanzbrunnen Cologne , renewal of the membrane
  • 2001 “Sail Island” shade sail on the Red Sea , Corniche Jedda , Saudi Arabia
  • 2002 Toldo for the Villa d`Este in Rome , Italy
  • 2002 Mobile umbrellas, Hotel d´Angleterre, Lausanne , Switzerland
  • 2002 “Minbar”, mobile pulpit for the holy mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2004 Convertible roof, Scherenburg castle ruins , Gemünden, a. M. , Germany
  • 2004 Membrane roof retail center, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
  • 2004 Umbrellas for the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart , design with Frei Otto
  • 2007 Tent roofs and lighting concept, Royal Terminal, Dschedda , Saudi Arabia.
  • 2007 Convertible umbrellas for the Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados
  • 2008 Convertible umbrellas (29mx29m) Royal Terminal, Jedda, Saudi Arabia
  • 2009–2012 Tents on the Abraj Al Bait Towers, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: Hijra Plaza, Tower Tents
  • 2011 250 mobile umbrellas (26mx26m) for the mosque of the Prophet in Medina
  • 2012 “Royal Clock” and spire on the “Royal Clock Tower” of the Abraj Al Bait Towers , Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 2013 Convertible Umbrellas in Sundance Square in Fort Worth , Texas .

Awards

  • 1981 Prize of the Friends of the University of Stuttgart
  • 1992 Prize of the German Werkbund Bayern
  • 1993 Best Innovation, International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction Award, Houston, Texas
  • 1993 “Imam Bukhari Educational Complex”, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1st prize in the international competition

Exhibitions

Publications

  • IL 29 “Tent cities of Hajj”, dissertation by Dr. Bodo Rasch
  • Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch: Finding Shape - On the Way to an Architecture of the Minimal, Edition Axel Menges, 1995
  • Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch: Finding Form - Towards an Architecture of the Minimal, Edition Axel Menges, 1995

Articles and interviews

Movies

  • The Pedestrian Movement of Al Hajj , 1978, film by Viscom and Hajj Research Center
  • Bodo Rasch - Architecture for Allah , documentary, 2004, SÜDWEST Fernsehen: January 29, 2004, 10.30 p.m.
  • The Makkah Clock Film , 2012, SL Rasch

Web links

Commons : Mahmoud Bodo Rasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nerdinger, Winfried: Frei Otto. The complete work: Leicht Bauen Naturally Gestalten , 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7233-8
  2. ↑ "Everything has to come from within" - Architecture shapes the way of life - IZ in conversation with the Stuttgart architect Dr. Quickly
  3. ↑ a b Skyscraper project in Mecca: Now it's beating gigantically
  4. ↑ ISLAM: Allah's Shadow Man , Der Spiegel , 15/2002
  5. ↑ Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch: Finding a shape: on the way to an architecture of the minimal , 1995, ISBN 3-930698-65-X
personal data
SURNAME Quickly, Mahmoud Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart