Specialist know-how: Ultralight, Flexible Formwork System for Thin, Textile-reinforced Concrete Shells

HiLo is a research and innovation unit for lightweight construction and smart and adaptive building systems. It is a two-storey innovation hub and collaborative working space that will be built in 2018 on NEST, EMPA’s modular research building in Dübendorf, Switzerland. The roof of the unit is a double-layered, doubly curved, carbon-fibre-reinforced concrete shell structure with integrated hydronic heating and...