文档介绍：Heinz Isler, Wyss Garden Centre, Heinz Isler, Bubble shells, Bösiger Heinz Isler, Deitingen Süd Service Station, Peter Rich Architects, Mapungubwe
Solothurn, Switzerland, 1962 AG, Langenthal, Switzerland Flumenthal, Switzerland, 1968 Interpretation Centre, Mapungubwe National
below left: The shell at the bottom left: Hundreds of Isler ‘bubble’ below right: Isler’s most iconic shells are the Park, Limpopo, South Africa, 2008
Wyss Garden Centre is based shells were constructed, typically two triangular canopies, each metres bottom right: Isler’s legacy of effi cient
on an expansion form. Covering with spans of 20 x 20 metres ( ( feet) in span and up to 26 pression forms lives on in projects such
an area of 650 square metres x feet), mainly for industrial (85 feet) wide, constructed at Deitingen Süd as the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre
(6,997 square feet), the main mercial buildings, such as Service Station, on the N1 highway between which was selected as the World Architecture
shell is just 70 millimetres ( these for his preferred contractor Zürich and Bern. Threatened with demolition Festival’s Building of the Year 2009. Here
inches) thick and the stiffening Willi Bösiger AG of Langenthal, in 1999, their retention was vigorously, and timbrel masonry vaults (by John Ochsendorf
edge cantilevers taper to just 60 Switzerland, who continues to build essfully, supported by Swiss architects and Michael Ramage) of up to metres
millimetres ( inches). the standard system. The largest including Mario Botta and Peter Zumthor. ( feet) in span and 300 millimetres
bubble shell constructed, at Wangen (12 inches) thick, were constructed from
bei Olten, measures by unreinforced stabilised earth tiles, their form
metres ( x feet). highly reminiscent of Isler’s tennis halls.
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Heinz Isler, Load-test model for shell Heinz Isler with Copeland Associates and
of the Flieger Flab air museum, Haus + H