BOLLINGER GROHMANN

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MANFRED GROHMANN
Structural Engineer Prof. Dipl.-Ing.

Prof. Grohmann has studied and taught Civil Engineering at the Darmstadt Technical 2015
University. Since 1996 he has been assigned Professor for Structural Design at Kassel Founding of branch Munich, Germany
University, since 2000 guest professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and since 2007 2014
at the ESA – École d’Architecture in Paris. Founding of Bollinger + Grohmann
International GmbH in Melbourne, Australia
In 1983 Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann established the practice
(former BG+F)
Bollinger+Grohmann, now located in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Oslo,
2013
Melbourne, Berlin and Munich with around 150 employees. Both combine teaching at
Founding of branch Berlin, Germany
architecture schools with their practice.
2010
Bollinger+Grohmann combine a high level of interdisciplinary knowledge like Founding of Bollinger Grohmann + Florian
architectural geometry, software development, material and fabrication technologies Kosche AS in Oslo, Norway
with engineering expertise. Their range of services includes structural and façade 2006
design, geometry development, building physics and sustainability. The field of work Founding of B+G Ingénierie in Paris, France
spans between the structural design of housing, office, commercial, exhibition and
2003
event facilities as well as classic civil engineering structures such as bridges, roofs and Founding of Bollinger Grohmann Schneider
towers. in Vienna, Austria
1983
Founding of Bollinger+Grohmann in
Frankfurt, Germany
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS
Teaching
DEICHMAN LIBRARY since 2007
Oslo, Norway Guest Professor, ESA – École
d’Architecture, Paris, France
Architect: Lund Hagem Architects, Oslo, Norway, AtelierOslo, Oslo, Norway / Client: Municipality of Oslo /
since 2000
since 2010 / Surface Library: 18,000 m² / Height: 61 m / Glazed façade (triple-skin): 7,500 m² / Services:
Guest Professor, Städelschule Frankfurt,
Structural and Façade Design (Consulting conception | Design contract) / In collaboration with: BGKI
Germany
BollingerGrohmann + Florian Kosche AS
since 1996
Professor, Structural Engineering,
MOCAPE MUSEUM Department of Architecture, University of
Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen, China Kassel, Germany
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria / Client: Shenzhen Municipal Culture Bureau, Shenzhen, since 1995
China / since 2008 / Classification: Ground floors with massive reinforced-concrete construction / Gross Lecturer, Department of Architecture,
floor area: 80,000 m² / Total floor area: 102,750 m² / Service: Structural Design (preliminary design | Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
schematic design) Degree
1979 Diploma in Civil Engineering
LE NOUVEAU CARREAU DU TEMPLE Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Monument, Paris, France Nationality
Architect: Studio Milou, Paris, France / Client: Municipality of Paris, Paris, France / 2006 - 2014 / German
Classification: Expansion, reconstruction and refurbishment of an iron and glass structure / Total floor area: Languages
8,400 m² / Gross floor area: 9,136 m² / Structural design by the basic estimates up to the construction German
supervision English

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK - ECB

Frankfurt, Germany
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria / Client: ECB European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany /
2003 - 2014 / Gross floor area: 184,000 m² / Gross volume: 766,000 m³ / Height North tower: 185 m /
Height South tower: 165 m / Height incl. communication mast: 220 m

MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCES

Lyon, France
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria / Client: Département du Rhône / 2001 - 2014 /
Classification: Complex free-form architecture / steel structure on three massive cores and sculptural

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supports / Gross floor area: 46,476 m² / Total floor area: 29,700 m² / In collaboration with: Coyne et
Bellier, Lyon / VS_A, Lille

GRAMMAR SCHOOL RIEDBERG

Frankfurt, Germany
Architect: ackermann+raff, Stuttgart, Germany / Client: HA Hessen Agentur, Wiesbaden, Germany / 2009 -
2013 / Gross floor area: 21,400 m² / Gross volume: 108,500 m³ / Total floor area: 9,000 m² / Passive
house standard

THE SHEIKH ZAYED DESERT LEARNING CENTER

Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Architect: CAP Chalabi architects&partners, Vienna, Austria / Client: Al Ain Wildlife Park & Resort / 2008 -
2013 / Gross floor area: 12,200 m² / Gross volume: 76,420 m³ / Surface Exhibition: 2,000 m²

VIENNA DC TOWER
Vienna, Austria
Architect: Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, France, Hoffmann - Janz Architekten, Vienna, Austria /
Client: Vienna DC Donau-City / 2005 - 2013 / In collaboration with: Gmeiner Haferl Zivilingenieure ZT
GmbH, Vienna | Reinforced-concrete structure with outrigger bracing roofs | Seismic structural design /
Height: 220 m / (in process) / Gross floor area: 140,000 m² / (in planning) / Level: 60 (above ground) /
Level: 4 (underground) / Underground parkings: 254

LOUVRE LENS
Lens, France
Architect: SANAA Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Tokio, Japan / Client: Regionalrat Nord-Pas-de-Calais
/ 2005 - 2012 / Classification: Exhibition halls : Reinforced-concrete with filigree steel roof structure |
Entrance hall : Steel glass construction / Gross floor area: 14,000 m² / Surface façade: 6,600 m² / Roofing
surface: 12,500 m² / Haute Qualité Environnementale (HQE) / Services: Structural and Façade Design

PGE-ARENA
Gdansk, Poland
Architect: RKW Rhode, Kellermann, Wawrowsky, Düsseldorf, Germany, HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg und
Partner, Düsseldorf, Germany / Client: Municipality of Gdansk / 2008 - 2011 / Classification: Dissolved
steel bar shell construction, integral pressure and tension ring / Gross floor area: 237,939 m² / Seats:
44,000

EPFL ROLEX-LEARNING CENTER

Lausanne, Switzerland
Architect: SANAA Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Tokio, Japan / Client: Eidg. Finanzverwaltung EFW,
Lausanne, Switzerland / 2005 - 2010 / Total floor area: 37,000 m² / Gross volume: 131,000 m³ / Minergie-
Label / Seismic structural design / In collaboration with: Walther Mory Maier AG, Basel / Consultant
engineer: SAPS Sasaki and Partner, Tokyo

BMW-WELT
event and vehicle delivery center , Munich, Germany
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria / Client: BMW Group, Munich, Germany / 2001 - 2007 /
Classification: Canopy as spatial braced structure on a twin cone, steel mesh shell / Gross floor area:
25,000 m² / Gross volume: 470,000 m³

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PUBLICATIONS

Einfachheit und Komplexität - Louvre Lens

in: Ingenieurbaukunst 2014; Ernst & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 2014

Tragwerks- und Fassadenplanung aus einer Hand: King Fahad Nationalbibliothek

in: Ingenieurbaukunst 2014; Ernst & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 2014

Planungsprozess komplexer Strukturen

in: Bautechnik; Ernst & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 2014

Was (er)trägt ein Parkhaus der 1960er und 1970er Jahre? Gedanken eines Tragwerksplaners
in: Mehr als nur parken. Parkhäuser weiterdenken; hrsg. von der AKH, DAM und Quantum; jovis Verlag,
Berlin, 2014

Testing Models in ferroconcrete structures between 1910 and 1930

H. Peseke, K. Bollinger, M. Grohmann, in: "Shells, Membranes and Spatial Structures: Footprints", IASS
2014, Brasilien

The Großmarkthalle in Frankfurt/Main - an early reinforced concrete shell structure

in: Perceived Technologies in the Modern Movement 1918 - 1975; hrsg. von do-co-mo-mo, preservation
technology, Lissabon; dossier 13, 2014

Louvre Lens - Einfachheit und Komplexität

in: Glasbau 2014; hrsg. von B. Weller, S. Tasche; Ernst und Sohn Verlag, Berlin; S. 17 - 27

Parapluie - Realisierung einer ultraschlanken Betonschale durch Aktivierung einer Membrantragwirkung

in: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 109 (2014), Heft 1, S. 53 - 59

Neue Überdachungen für die Eingangstore der Messe Frankfurt

in: Stahlbau 82 (2013), Heft 11, S. 868 - 872

Rethinking Prototyping - Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2013

hrsg. v. C. Gengnagel, A. Kilian, J. Nembrini, F. Scheurer; Universität der Künste, Berlin, 10/2013

Sphäre Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main

in: Stahlbau 82 (2013), Heft 9, S. 695 - 699

Bollinger + Grohmann
DETAIL engineering 3, hsrg. v. Christian Schittich, Peter Cachola Schmal, München, 2013

Durch integrierte Planungsprozesse zu ressourceneffizienterem Bauen

in: BDB-Jahrbuch, hrsg.v. Bund Deutscher Baumeister, Berlin, 2013

Die Dächer des Busan Cinema Centers

in: Stahlbau, Ernst und Sohn Verlag, Berlin, 12/2012

Innovation through Tradition and Technology

in: Arab-German Yearbook 2012, hrsg. v. Arab German Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Berlin/Doha

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2012

Flughafen Sheremetyevo, Moskau – Planung und Fertigung der Stahldächer und Brücke
in: Stahlbau; Ernst & Sohn Verlag, Berlin; Nr. 1381, 12/2010; S. 892

LECTURES

Stahlbau ist Hybridbau - Systemisches Entwerfen

Vortrag an der steelacademy, ETH Zürich, 15.10.2014

Architecture and Structure

KTH Royal Institue of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1.10.2014

New Structures for Building Construction

Building Fair, Beijing, China, 7.7.2014

Werkbericht Bollinger+Grohmann
Vortrag der Veranstalter Arsgroup an der Hochschule Darmstadt, 03.07.2014

Architektur Bauen
Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe Forum Baubetrieb an der Technik FH Mainz, 26.03.2014

Una Historia de Amor: Vortragsreise durch Argentinien

Universitäten von Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Mendoza, Cordoba und La Plata; 13.03. - 01.04.2014

Architecture and Structure – just a simple love affair

Vortrag an der Bartlett School of Architecture, London, 06.03.2014

Architektur und Konstruktion

University for Apllied Science, Lübeck, Germany, 18.2.2014

Transparency, Glas – Façade – Structure

Challenging Glas - Conference, Lausanne, 6.2.2014

Behind the scenes: Hinter den Kulissen der Architektur

Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe engineers imagine an der msa, Münster, 20.11.2013

Digital Workflow in the Building Sector

Design Modelling Symposium, Berlin 2013, 02.10.2013

Leichte Stahlbaukonstuktionen beim Bauen im Bestand

Werkstattwoche "Parkhäuser der 60er und 70er Jahre weiterdenken, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Frankfurt, 02.10.2012

Leichte Stahlbaukonstuktionen beim Bauen im Bestand

Werkstattwoche "Parkhäuser der 60er und 70er Jahre weiterdenken, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Frankfurt, 02.10.2012

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Digital workflow – Parametrisches Design

Ettersburger Gespräche 2011: Baukultur-Unternehmenskultur-Stadtkultur, 22.09.2011

The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, Switzerland

Institution of Structural Engineers, London, 09.06.2011

Parametric Tools in Teaching and Building

The 6 th International Conference on Planning and Design National Cheng Kung University Tainan City,
Taiwan, 22. - 27.05.2011

Embedding structural intelligence into design

Workshop on Construction - Aware Design 2011 King Abdullah University of Scienc and Technology,
Jeddah, 17.04.2011

PARTICIPATION IN A JURY

Konkurrierendes Gutachterverfahren Schutzdach Göbeklitepe

Jurysitzung, DAI Berlin-Dahlem, 11.02.2011

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