FREI OTTO 100 – THE SPIRIT OF LIGHTWEIGHT CONSTRUCTION symposium

The FREI OTTO 100 – THE SPIRIT OF LIGHTWEIGHT CONSTRUCTION symposium, held on 5 and 6 June, featured several key presentations.

Frei Otto symposium 01

Annette Bögle spoke about rethinking lightweight construction, raising questions such as:

Have we lost the holistic approach to design?

Can we go further?

Can we explore circularity in the context of lightweight design?

We should certainly push beyond the current 'normal'.

 

Frei Otto symposium 02

Mariana Popescu gave a talk on Tailored Materiality.

There is so much creativity in her work. She uses knitted materials and travelled with the 'skin' of KnitCandela in her backpack.

The fact that the installation Common Thread, initially developed for the 2024 Bruges Triennial in Belgium, has been reconfigured for ILEK (circularity!) shows her strong vision for lightweight, sustainable building.