markus heinsdorff

Expo Shanghai
2010 German-Chinese House, Shanghai, China
2018 Reonstruction at the new museum quarter in Hangzhou, China 

2-storey bamboo and Membrane Building with a 330 square meters walkable exhibition area for the world exhibition in Shanghai. The innovative art building as the 2. German pavilion at the EXPO exists with 8 m height, 25 m width and 10 m depth to a great extent of bamboo canes and bamboo laminates. The building is constructed with new developed connecting and procedure technologies for bamboo. Principals are the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe Institute. It represents the events series „Germany and China – Moving Ahead Together", which was realised from 2007 to 2010 in five  "mega cities" of China and also devoted itself to the topic „sustained urbanization"

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Cooperation:

Design, development and architecture:
Markus Heinsdorff, Munich Germany

Planning implementation and administrative procedures:
MUDI architects and Tongji University Shanghai

Structural planning:
Faculty for Architecture and Structural Analysis und Statik / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mike Sieder VariCon, TU München, Chair for wood construction and structural design

Joining techniques:
Prof. Dr. -Ing.Harald Garrecht,  TU Darmstadt, Institute for solid construction and Prof. J. Schneider TU Darmstadt, Institute for construction materials and mechanics in civil engineering

Construction management:
Tebodin Consultants & Engineers, Shanghai

Construction consultant:
Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, K. Göppert, Stuttgart Germany

Implementation:
Oriental Expo Shanghai