Eyecatcher building

Basel, Switzerland, 1998

  • Mobile lightweight five-story building, 15 m tall, tallest multistory GFRP building in the world
  • First use at a building fair, subsequently disassembled and reassembled at another location
  • Single-layer load-bearing GFRP envelope with integration of structural, building physical and architectural functions
  • Three GFRP frames composed of adhesively-bonded built-up sections as the main load-bearing structure, translucent aerogel-filled GFRP sandwich walls between the GFRP frames