PFEIFER donates cables and membranes for a bionic structure in Victoria & Albert Museum

In the course of the exhibition “V&A’s Engineering Season” Prof. Achim Menges and Jan Knippers of Stuttgart University developed an innovative and from biology inspired structure pavilion. The structure of “Elytra Filament Pavilion” is based on the elytren – veinless wing cases whose structure is stable despite of their light weight. In order to transfer the construction principle of the elytren to a building the engineers had to use the latest robotics. A robot imitates the filament structure with the help of a custom-built winding technology with glass and synthetic fibre. In summary, the composition of the structure results in a roof surface area of 200 qm weighing only 2.5 tons.