The vi­sion fo­rum “Build­ing with Car­bon” was held at the TU Berlin in the spring of 2014. Lec­tur­ers, en­gi­neers and ar­chi­tects dis­cussed the use of car­bon fi­bres in con­struc­tion. The ma­te­r­ial – light, strong and durable – is still rarely used in this field, but it of­fers many prospects for the fu­ture. Moni­teurs de­signed the ap­pear­ance for this event. The key vi­sual rep­re­sents the is­sue of car­bon: a ma­te­r­ial seem­ingly in mo­tion, while the two colours in the vi­sual are slightly off­set. The ty­pog­ra­phy ra­di­ates a par­tic­u­lar clar­ity and pres­ence.

Within the vi­sual con­cept for the in­ter­na­tional en­gi­neer­ing con­sul­tants schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner, words like con­struc­tion and com­plex­ity ver­sus sim­plic­ity are el­e­men­tary. The logo rep­re­sents schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner clearly, mem­o­rably and with con­fi­dence. The logo, three geo­met­ri­cally con­structed and char­ac­ter­is­tic let­ters, makes a bold state­ment. The name, along with its ab­bre­vi­a­tion, uniquely moulds the brand.
The en­ergy in the de­sign of the pre­sent logo ra­di­ates light­ness, vi­sion, pre­ci­sion and tech­nol­ogy, in both ana­logue and dig­i­tal forms. The logo will pre­serve its style, as it is no longer tied to the text. The swing of the let­ters is free and grace­ful. Logo – word mark and let­ter­ing, mo­men­tum, text and colour to­gether cre­ate the new cor­po­rate de­sign.

The de­sign of the book in many lay­ers, goes hand in hand with the con­tent, which de­scribes the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers with which the en­gi­neers schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner deal and in which they work.

How do the en­gi­neers al­ways man­age to de­liver in­no­v­a­tive and first-class work? A look be­hind the scenes de­scribes this. In ad­di­tion to ex­cit­ing texts and pro­ject de­scrip­tions, the book also pro­vides space for beau­ti­ful, quiet photo se­ries. What it means when en­gi­neers work to­gether with artists is shown in the layer art, for ex­am­ple. Nu­mer­ous works are vividly ex­plored in depth about Aug­mented Re­al­ity.

Glass mesh domes as canopies re­fine build­ings and ur­ban build­ing en­sem­bles. This book is the first com­pre­hen­sive dis­play of de­sign, con­struc­tion and fil­i­greed cal­cu­la­tion of dou­ble-curved, wide-span glazed shells. The geo­met­ric prin­ci­ples of the de­sign of the shell struc­tures are clear and eas­ily com­pre­hen­si­ble, and are easy to use with com­mer­cial CAD pro­gramme mod­ules. Us­ing real-life ex­am­ples from the years 1989 to 2014, the lat­est meth­ods of form-find­ing cal­cu­la­tions and op­ti­mi­sa­tion through the com­plex in­ter­ac­tion of sta­tic equi­lib­rium, form and topol­ogy are ex­plained prac­ti­cally. The re­sults are in­tel­li­gent mesh de­signs with min­i­mal weight.