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#6 - SEPTEMBER 2011 /SLETTER ON SERGE FERRARI® COMPOSITE TEXTILES AND MEMBRANES INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ON SERGE FERRARI® COMPOSITE TEXTILES AND MEMBRANES WWW.Sergeferrari.com Serge Ferrari COMPOSITE TEXTILES FOR LIGHTNES5

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2 - Serge Ferrari news WORLDWIDE ■ #6 ■ SEPTEMBER 2011 ■ www.sergeferrari.com

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A 72,000 m3 monumental inflatable structure made of Serge Ferrari®^ composite textiles^^^^^^H Franoise Fournier, manager of Serge Ferrari's Textile Architecture ■■ Unit recalls the company's collaboration with the artist Anish Kapoor since 2002. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H For his monumental artistic crations, Anish Kapoor -who embraces | technology- engages the support of the best international engineering | design offices, with whom we have also collaborated for many years in the architectural textile field. |ffl^|^|^|^|^|^|^|^|^ In 2002, this collaboration resulted in "Marsyas",...

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SPECIALISSUE MONUMENTA Leviathan

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SPECIAL ISSUE MONUMENTA Leviathan Anish Kapoor ■1 If. - ^ f V h i Ull m M ^nique organic red with totally new visual characteristics In "Leviathan", colour is of prime importance: a high density organic red, conserving the translucent qualities of the Prcontraint Serge Ferrari® textile. A seemingly paradoxical requi-rement, as Pascal Martor, colorimetry engineer at Serge Ferrari recalls, "Anish Kapoor offered his own gouache based pigments, but these were incompatible with the PVC. We therefore applied ourselves to remaking the colours and redefining the light transmission values based on...

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SPECIAL ISSUE MONUMENTA Leviathan Anish Kapoor From imagination to realization,,, I Frank Molter, gnral manager of Hightex GmbH, the textile architectural specialist that made up and installed "Leviathan" recalls the work's key realization stages. Adam Bown of consulting engineer Tensys, who conducted the design studies and produced the cutting drawings explains the crucial importance of these stages. ^^^^1 Leviathan statistics ■ Serge Ferrari composite membrane: special product developed from the Pr驩contraint® 1002 family to produce 166 fabric panels ■ Textile density: 850 g/m2 ■ Work...

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Sw (kN/m) 15.00 "The sculptures shape is created without metal reinforcement, but by the air and the cutting drawing geometry. This causes major tensile stress variations sions. At the balloon joints, the fabric is subjected to 15 kN/m (red areas on diagram). The rest of the surface is subjected to roughly 3 kN/m (blue areas). Prcontraint® textile's high dimensional stability allows the structure to take up these stressvariations, whilst rigorously adhering to the artist's visionary geometry". "Complex loading studies and cutting drawings by Tensys, who took full advantage of Prcontraint®...

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Serge Ferrari & Anish Kapoor, is also,,, Dismemberment: Site 1 an incredible, gigantic J I red cone ^^^^^1 85 m long and 25 m high, "Dismemberment: Site 1" comprises ment in close collaboration with the artist. The composite textile is stretched between two steel ellipses: two identical giant red structures, each weighing nearly 43 tonnes, while the textile only weighs 7.2 tonnes. pAVBMVBMVBMVBMVBMVBJ An Open Air Work: a Challenge to be met iVmBBBBI Designed to resist violent winds from the sea and the especially aggressive UV rays at this latitude, the monumental sculpture takes full...

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rge Ferrari® composite textiles: exclusive advantages of Prcontraint® technoogy "Leviathan", the inflatable structure created by Anish Kapoor provides an opportunity for recalling the incomparab performance characteristics of Serge Ferrari membranes, manufactured based on the Prcontraint® process: an innovative technology, which has given composite textiles real construction material status. Serge Ferrari, innovator and founder of the company, was a forerunner under tension throughout the manufacturing cycle. Pr驩contraint® textiles driven by imagination, innovation and foresight. Applying...

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SPECIALISSUE MONUMENTA Leviath Anish Kapoor www.sergeferrari.com In the section dedicated to architecture, the website features a palette of downloadable tools specially designed for architects and clients, including the largest reference database in textile facade, solar protection and architecture areas. This database offers an extensive panorama of multiple applications: external and internal blinds, shade structures, walkway or stand canopies, sports facilities, fitting out fabrics, stretched ceilings, The new Serge Ferrari website allows visitors to access all areas in which composite...

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