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    Frei Otto is a German architect and structural engineer known for his experimentation with tensile and membrane structures. Some of his notable works include the West Germany Pavilion at Expo 67, the roof for the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium, and providing engineering assistance for the 2000 Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000. He founded the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart in 1964. His designs made innovative use of tensile structures, space frames, and pressurized membranes to create lightweight, efficient structures.

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    Frei Otto is a German architect and structural engineer known for his experimentation with tensile and membrane structures. Some of his notable works include the West Germany Pavilion at Expo 67, the roof for the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium, and providing engineering assistance for the 2000 Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000. He founded the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart in 1964. His designs made innovative use of tensile structures, space frames, and pressurized membranes to create lightweight, efficient structures.

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    Frei Otto is a German architect and structural engineer known for his experimentation with tensile and membrane structures. Some of his notable works include the West Germany Pavilion at Expo 67, the roof for the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium, and providing engineering assistance for the 2000 Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000. He founded the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart in 1964. His designs made innovative use of tensile structures, space frames, and pressurized membranes to create lightweight, efficient structures.

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    Frei Otto is a German architect and structural engineer known for his experimentation with tensile and membrane structures. Some of his notable works include the West Germany Pavilion at Expo 67, the roof for the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium, and providing engineering assistance for the 2000 Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000. He founded the Institute for Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart in 1964. His designs made innovative use of tensile structures, space frames, and pressurized membranes to create lightweight, efficient structures.

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    Frei Otto was a German architect and structural engineer who was a pioneer in developing lightweight tensile and membrane structures. Some of his key influences and career highlights included experimenting with tents for shelter, visiting influential architects in the US, founding the Institute for Lightweight Structures, and designing notable buildings such as the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

    Frei Otto began his career experimenting with tents for shelter. After World War 2, he studied briefly in the United States and visited architects like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright. He then began his private practice in Germany in 1952.

    Frei Otto was an authority on lightweight tensile and membrane structures. He was concerned with space frames and structural efficiency. He experimented with inflatable buildings whose structure was constructed using two layers of membrane connected together to form a rigid element when pressurized with air.

    FREI OTTO

    (31 May 1925-

    Germanarchitectandstructural
    engineer.

    LIFE

    Began experimenting with tents for shelter


    After the war he studied briefly in the United States
    VisitedErich Mendelsohn,Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra,
    andFrank Lloyd Wright
    Began private practice in Germany in 1952

    Awards
    1974Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
    1996/7Wolf Prizein Architecture
    2005RIBARoyal Gold Medal

    FREI OTTO

    Style .

    authority on lightweighttensile and membrane structures


    concerned with space frames and structural efficiency
    experimented withinflatable buildings

    structureconstructed using two layers


    ofmembraneconnected together
    cavity formed between the layers is pressurized with air
    producing a rigid structural element
    pavilions,airships,furniture, airspace
    structures,boats,escape slides, security
    mattresses,swimming
    pools,coverings,gamesandcastles,air bags
    FREI OTTO

    Academics.
    Otto founded the famous Institute for
    Lightweight Structures at the
    University ofStuttgartin 1964

    FREI OTTO

    List of Buildings

    1967- West Germany Pavilion atExpo 67Montreal


    1970-Tuwaiq Palace, Saudi Arabia, withBuro Happold
    1972- Roof forOlympic Stadium, Munich
    2000- Roof structure of the Japanese Pavilion atExpo 2000,
    Hanover Germany (provided engineering assistance withBuro
    Happoldand architectural collaboration withShigeru Ban)

    FREI OTTO

    Olympic Stadium (Munich)


    original capacity of 80,000
    large sweeping canopies
    ofacrylic glassstabilized
    bysteelcables

    FREI OTTO

    Plan

    Aerial View

    FREI OTTO

    FREI OTTO

    FREI OTTO

    Details

    the tensile glass tent-like roof

    FREI OTTO

    FREI OTTO

    Tuwaiq Palace

    Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1998.

    Tuwaiq Palace

    enclosed by inclined curved walls, forming a sinuous


    curvilinear spine 800 m long, 12 m high, and 7-13 m wide,
    used for guest services and accommodations
    outdoor sports facilities, gardens, and extensive
    landscaping laid out in a pattern of complementary spirals,
    circles, and curves, in harmony with the building's
    undulations

    Mushrooming from the spine are tents supported by tensilestructure technology


    design makes reference to two local archetypes - the
    fortress and the tent

    The tents enclose the large-scale spaces: main lounges, reception


    areas, multi-purpose halls, restaurants, and a caf
    dramatic contrast between the lush greenery of the outdoor
    spaces enclosed by the spine and the arid rocky plateau beyond
    its walls
    The white tents are made of Teflon-coated, woven fibre fabric
    The tents are enclosed by glass walls

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