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Façade Engineering

Dear clients and colleagues,

On the first of May in 2008, we sharpened our pencils and began working on a project

that has shaped our office - the Bao’an International Airport in Shenzhen.

Prior to the Bao’an International Airport, Knippers Helbig specialized in the structural

engineering of building framing and specialty façade systems. It was on that day 10

years ago that we began to also provide façade consultation, design, and engineering

services for curtain walls, conventional, and special glazing systems.

We look back on 10 years of challenging projects and thank everybody involved for

the fruitful collaborations during those years. Our services have grown to encompass

early concept design to construction administration for unitized curtain walls, custom

façade systems, double-skin façades as well as parametrically designed building

envelopes, including a wide range of material systems such as aluminum, steel,

timber, structural glazing, textiles, cable walls and many more.

We look forward to many more years of intriguing projects together.

Thorsten Helbig

Partner

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BAO’ANINTERNATIONALAIRPORT 06

LIGHTRAIL STATION 08

GLASSELLSCHOOL OF ART 10

TRON REALM, CHEVROLETDIGITAL CHALLENGE 12

TRUMPF SMARTFACTORY 14

HARVARD SCIENCE ANDENGINEERING COMPLEX 16

ONE OCEAN PAVILIONWORLD EXPO 2012 18

ACADEMY MUSEUMOF MOTION PICTURES 20

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSHOUSTON - NANCY AND RICHKINDER BUILDING 22

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALLCOLLEGE - WINTER VISUALARTS CENTER 24

NEW TORONTOCOURTHOUSE 26

EUROPAPLATZ BF4 28

NATIONAL VETERANSRESOURCE CENTER 30

FOM 32

WHARF PARCEL6+7 34

BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE 36

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEDSTUDY - RUBENSTEIN COMMONS 38

ADIDAS HALFTIME 40

2008 - 201810 Years Advanced Façade Engineering

Stuttgart | New York | Berlin

Boris Peter

Partner

BAO’ANINTERNATIONALAIRPORT

SHENZHEN, CHINA

MASSIMILIANOFUKSAS ARCHITECTSBIAD

Project

_ Client: Shenzhen Airport

Company Ltd.

_ Completed in 2013

_ 300.000 m2 double-layer

façade and roof construction

_ Spans of up to 80 m

_ 85.000 individual façade

panels realized by 6 different façade

contractors

Scope

_ Façade Engineering

_ Structural Engineering

_ Parametric Design

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LIGHTRAIL STATION

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

ZWARTS & JANSMAARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: BAM Infra NL / ProRail

_ Completed in 2016

_ 1.600 m2 steel gridshell with

doubly curved steel members

_ Single-curved glass; heat-bent glass

Scope



_ Parametric Design

9©Bart van Hoek ©ProRail

GLASSELLSCHOOL OF ART

HOUSTON, TX, USA

STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTSKENDALL/HEATON ASSOCIATES

Project

_ Client: Museum of Fine Arts Houston

_ Completed in 2018

_ 7.900 m2 façade made of precast

concrete elements, translucent

glazing units and operable windows

_ Skylights, custom vestibules

_ Large punched windows with unit

sizes up to 6.00 m x 6.00 m

_ Joints and connection details with

minimum dimensions

Scope


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TRON REALM, CHEVROLETDIGITAL CHALLENGE

SHANGHAI, CHINA

GRIMSHAWARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: confidential

_ Completed in 2016

_ Exterior doubly-curved textile

façade screen

_ Glass façade with structural glass fins

_ Bent aluminum façade cladding

Scope



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TRUMPF SMARTFACTORY

CHICAGO, IL, USA

BARKOW LEIBINGERARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG

_ Completed in 2017

_ Structure and façade demonstrate

wide spectrum of possibilities of the

utilization of steel

_ Vertical double-T large façade

mullions made of weathering steel

Scope



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HARVARD SCIENCE ANDENGINEERING COMPLEX

BOSTON, MA, USA

BEHNISCHARCHITEKTEN

Project

_ Client: Harvard University

Allston Development Group

_ To be completed in 2020

_ 50.000 m2 gross floor area

_ Façade strategy balances user

comfort, maximized views and

solar exposure

_ External shading screen made of

hydroformed stainless steel panels

with parametrically optimized

geometry

_ Highly efficient and

sustainable façade design

Scope


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ONE OCEAN PAVILIONWORLD EXPO 2012

YEOSU, SOUTH KOREA

SOMAARCHITECTURE

Project

_ Client: The Organizing Committee for

EXPO 2012 Yeosu - KR

_ Completed in 2012

_ 3.200 m2 kinetic façade

_ More than 100 individual Glass Fiber

Reinforced Polymer louvers

_ Actuators at top and bottom allow for

asymmetrical bending

Scope


_ Kinematic Design

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ACADEMY MUSEUMOF MOTION PICTURES

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA

RENZO PIANO BUILDINGWORKSHOP GENSLER

Project

_ Client: Academy of Motion

Picture Arts and Sciences


_ 2.180 m2 façade area

_ Free spanning lightweight shell

structure with approx. 45 m span

_ Spherical dome comprised of an

extremely slender steel construction

with shingled glass envelope

_ design and engineering of various

suspended stairs, steel-glass bridges

including seismic design

Scope



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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON - NANCY AND RICH KINDER BUILDING

HOUSTON, TX, USA

STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTSKENDALL/HEATON ASSOCIATES

Project

_ Client: The Museum of Fine Arts,

Houston



_ Façade strategy focuses on daylight

control and reduction of solar heat

gain

_ Exterior “Cool Jacket”:

a ventilated rain screen consisting

of approx. 1.150 gravity bent

translucent glass tubes

Scope


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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALLCOLLEGE – WINTER VISUAL ARTS CENTER

LANCASTER, PA, USA

STEVEN HOLLARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: Franklin & Marshall College



_ Double layer façade comprised of

glass channels and translucent

insulation

_ Maximization of transparency

through frameless glass on

ground level

Scope


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NEW TORONTOCOURTHOUSE

TORONTO, ONT, CANADA

RENZO PIANO BUILDINGWORKSHOPNORR

Project

_ Client: Infrastructure Ontario



_ 20 m high twin cable supported

Atrium façade

_ Blast-resistant building envelope

_ Main tower façade features

shadow boxes with hydroformed

metal steel panels

Scope


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EUROPAPLATZ BF4

BERLIN, GERMANY

ALLMANN SATTLERWAPPNERARCHITEKTEN

Project

_ Client: CA Immo

Deutschland GmbH

_ 1st prize in competition, 2007

_ Unitized double skin façade with

gradually varying depth of exterior

surface

_ Slender glazing yields lightweight and

transparent character

_ Ventilated cavity serves as a

buffer for increased sound insulation,

protects motorized solar blinds and

allows for natural ventilation

Scope


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NATIONAL VETERANSRESOURCE CENTER

SYRACUSE, NY, USA

SHoP ARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: Syracuse University



_ Exterior shading fins are distributed

and geometrically optimized in

dependence to heat gain control,

maximization of daylight access,

views from inside

_ Transparent double-storey façade

on ground level

Scope


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FOM

BERLIN, GERMANY

J. MAYER H. ARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: BildungsCentrum der

Wirtschaft GmbH


_ Monolithic external walls primarily

consist of C8/9 class ultra-lightweight

concrete

_ Deep box type windows correspond

to the linear thermal gradient within

the adjacent 65 cm insulating

concrete. The layout of interior triple

insulated and exterior monolithic SSG

glazing allows a highly transparent

and elegant appearance and enables

natural ventilation in combination

with excellent sound protection

_ Double layer façade correlates to the

small-scale temperature gradient

within the insulating concrete

Scope



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WHARF PARCEL6+7

WASHINGTON DC, USA

SHoP ARCHITECTSWDG

Project

_ Client: PN Hoffman and

Madison Marquette



_ Main building volume is enclosed by

a staggered and shingled unitized

façade system

_ Oculus: Soffit cladding of multiple

hundred individually folded aluminum

panels

Scope


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BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA

HERZOG & DE MEURONGENSLER

Project

_ Client Rep: Paratus Group

_ Completion date: 2022

_ Spherical Dome with doubly-curved

glass and seismic movement joint

_ Lightweight steel shell structure

_ Timber curtain walls glass stripe of

spherically curved insulated glass

units

Scope



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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY – RUBENSTEIN COMMONS

PRINCETON, NJ, USA

STEVEN HOLLARCHITECTS

Project

_ Client: Institute for Advanced Study



_ Prismatic glass above 7˝ scatters

white light into the color spectrum

creating spectacular light effects

_ Planar and single curved clerestory

glazing wood windows integrated into

steel framed façade

Scope


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ADIDAS HALFTIME

HERZOGENAURACH, GERMANY

COBE

Project

_ Client: adidas Pension Trust e.V.

_ Completed in 2018

_ Transparent large span vertical

façades

_ Skylights with optimized daylighting

strategy

Scope



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Our Credo

“We do projects of any scale and complexity in Europe, North America and all parts

of the world as long as there are interesting aspects to solve.

We love to work in multidisciplinary teams, with architects, clients and the industry.

We believe that realizing amazing projects requires enthusiasm and personal

involvement of key personnel from the first concept sketch through all design and

construction phases until completion.”

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Florian Scheible and Roman Schieber

are leading the façade group at Knippers Helbig.

©Knippers Helbig

Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering is an internationally consulting engineering

practice with a multidisciplinary team of civil and structural engineers, architects

and façade engineers. We offer a comprehensive range of services for structural

engineering, façade design and geometric consulting for architecturally challenging

building and bridge projects.

The office was founded in 2001 by Jan Knippers and Thorsten Helbig. Jan Knippers

retired from the company as a partner at the end of 2017. The two owners Thorsten

Helbig and Boris Peter are leading the engineering offices in Stuttgart, New York

and Berlin.

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more to come

Knippers Helbig GmbH

Tübinger Str. 12-16

70178 Stuttgart

Deutschland

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75 Broad Street

New York, NY 10004

USA

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