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Dipl. - Ing. S. Ryklin STATIK
Project information
Owner
BASF Ludwigshafen
Architect
Dipl. - Ing. S. Ryklin STATIK
General Contractor
Planex Technik in Textil GmbH
Engineering Office
Dipl. - Ing. S. Ryklin STATIK
Location
Ludwigshafen, Germany
Construction Period
10/2010 to 05/2011
Short description │
Cafe Open Space Membrane Covering, BASF
According to the renovation of the environment around the plant cafe building by the BASF chemical
company in Ludwigshafen Germany, the open space in front of the cafe with many tables and seats had
to be sun protected. The temporary solution with two twin five-point sails - only for the summer time - was
chosen. The given surroundings with the existing cafe structure were built up in Scia Engineer using
Structure and 3D-Free-Modelling tools. The environment with appropriate parts of the site structure was
exported as DWG/DXF to the form finding software - Formfinder - to find and adjust the required form
and then to Forten software for the membrane design. The results of the formfinding and membrane
calculations were imported back in Scia to design the support steel structure, anchors, edge/corner details
and foundation. The fully detailed structure was developed in one 3D model to be able to consider every
distance and height in 3D-Space precisely. The production and execution were managed by the company
Planex Technik in Textil GmbH LU, Germany.
Contact
Sergej Ryklin
Address
Liselottestrasse 17,
D-69123 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone
+49 6221 830973
Email
Website
Sergej Ryklin - Born in 1963 in Moscow
1981-1985: Civil Engineering; “Bridges/Tunnels”; Since 1993: Structural designer and verifier at
“Römhild & Hecker” Consulting Engineers in Landau, Germany; Since 1997: Structural designer;
2008-2009: Master’s Study at the Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, Anhalt University of
Applied Sciences, Germany
Range of Capacity:
Planning and optimisation of steel, aluminium, solid, composite, timber and
membrane structures; Project consultancy; Building physics calculations; Dynamics calculations,
Project verification
Philosophy:
Flexibility in planning due to integral 3D design with the ability to find feasible and low-
cost solutions from the draft stage on.
Experience:
Residential and industrial buildings, parking spaces, pedestrian bridges, swimming pools,
silos, membranes…
References:
Daimler, John Deere, SAP, DB...
Nemetschek Structural User Contest 2013 - Category 4: Special Projects
