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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