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SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures is an interdisciplinary architecture office that specializes in the planning and manufacture of special constructions and lightweight structures. The company was founded by Mahmoud Bodo Rasch . The most famous projects include the convertible large umbrellas in front of the Prophet's mosque in Medina and the clock tower on the Makkah Clock Tower .
history
Mahmoud Bodo Rasch founded the Rasch & Associates office in 1980 and the company Sonderkonstruktionen und Leichtbau GmbH in 1991. In 1998, Rasch's longstanding chief architect, Jürgen Bradatsch, became a partner in the Rasch und Bradatsch architectural office. The company has been operating as SL Rasch GmbH Special and Lightweight Structures since 1998.
profile
The founder Mahmoud Bodo Rasch studied with Frei Otto , worked in the Frei Otto Warmbronn studio and at the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart. In team SL-Rasch researching and working architects , engineers , computer scientists , designers , media designers , modelers , art historian , Ornamentalisten , filmmakers , historians , linguists , scholars of religion , physicists and philosophers interdisciplinary under one roof.
They develop structures with Frei Otto's claim to continuously optimize every construction technically and aesthetically. The department for Islamic Design brings these constructions in line with the forms of jewelry necessary in the context of sacred or sovereign buildings.
SL Rasch specializes in the development, construction and production of large umbrellas and convertible roofs. The foundation of the work is basic research and the development of specific software .
The company has a high-performance computing facility and currently employs around 250 people in Germany and Saudi Arabia .
chosen projects
- 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
- 1992 12 large mobile 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 Mobile 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 mobile umbrellas (16mx16m) in front of the Al Hussein Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
- 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
- 2001 Stair-Climbing ATV
- 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
- 2003 Desert Ship 1, desert vehicle
- 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
- 2004 VIP travel lounge
- 2005 Desert Ship 2, desert vehicle
- 2007 Tent roofs and lighting concept, Royal Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- 2007 Mobile umbrellas for the Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados
- 2008 Mobile umbrellas (29mx29m) Royal Terminal, Jeddah, 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
literature
- 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.
- "Convertible Architecture" in L'Arca Larivista internazionale di architettura, design e comunicazione visiva 73/1993.
- Skyscraper project in Mecca: Now it's striking gigantically - SPIEGEL online
- In Focus: Bodo Rasch - Allah's Architect
- German engineers in Medina: Shade donors from the country
Movies
- 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
- SL Rasch GmbH homepage
- The Makkah Clock movie
- Free Otto homepage
- Mecca ticks differently The world's largest tower clock
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Skyscraper project in Mecca: Now it's beating gigantically
- ^ Nerdinger, Winfried: Frei Otto. The complete work: Leicht Bauen Naturally Gestalten , 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7233-8
- ↑ Convertible roofs
- ↑ High-tech sun protection in the desert SL Rasch relies on SGI solutions
- ↑ Sliding Domes - SL Rasch. Accessed March 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ ISLAM: Allah's Shadow Man , Der Spiegel , 15/2002
- ↑ Renaissance castle - SL Rasch. Accessed March 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ "The Makkah Clock" celebrates its premiere in Stuttgart - the largest tower clock in the world