Tensinet symposia

Tensinet Symposia

TensiNet Symposium 2026 - Shaping the pathway to future – tensioned membrane design

This 8th edition will be organised in coordination with the Institute for Metal and Lightweight Structures, University of Duisburg Essen, campus Essen, Germany and will take place around mid-September 2026. More information will follow soon!

Topics

• Design, Modelling and Simulation of Structural Membranes
• Materials and Execution
• Sustainability and Building Physics

Brussels - 2003: Designing Tensile Architecture

Milano - 2007: Ephemeral Architecture: Time and Textiles

Sofia - 2010: Tensile Architecture: Connecting Past and Future

Istanbul - 2013: [RE]THINKING Lightweight Structures

Newcastle - 2016: Novel structural skins - Improving sustainability and efficiency through new structural textile materials and designs. E-book proceeding 

Milan - 2019: Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures. E-book proceeding

Nantes – 2023:Membrane architecture: the seventh established building material. Designing reliable and sustainable structures for the urban environment. E-book proceeding

You can order the proceedings of the previous symposia. 

Announcements & Reports

• Proceedings TENSINANTES2023
• Keynote lecture Bouncing Bridge: ephemeral, autonomous and self-supporting pneumatic temporary structure
  Grégoire Zündel from Atelier Zündel Cristea and Ramon Sastre are invited to give a joined keynote lecture on pneumatic temporary structures.  In the TensiNew issue 43 an article on this subject was published. Enjoy also the video https://vimeo.com/116749669  
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude „L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped“ backstage - engineering for a work of art
  The firm made by büro für leichtbau, Tritthardt+Richter will be shown during TENSINANTES2023