Ice Rink Roof

Architect Built in
Kurt Ackermann and 1983
Partners
Design lifespan in years
Structural Engineer 00-05
Schlaich bergermann
partner Location
Munich, Germany
Developer
Form : Tension Fabric Olympiapark GmbH,
Roof München
Material : Steel, Wood,
Canvas
NIKET N PAI - B39
10/29/2020
L.T.I.A.D.S.
• To enable the open ice-surface in the Olympic Park to be used all round the year,
independently of the weather, a light roofing, naturally without supports, was required.

• Architects and engineers solved this problem together in an inspired fashion by means of a steel-
trussed arch of three chords.

Steel-trussed arch of three chords

Steel-trussed arch Detail

• With a span of 100m and a height of roughly 19m at its apex, the arch is capable of
transmitting any thrusts to two large concrete abutments .
100m

19m

Large concrete abutments

Large concrete abutment detail

• Two sets of cables hang in opposing curves from the arch, stabilizing it by their anchorage and
forming a net.

75 cm
75 cm
Forming a net.

Wooden Lattice

Translucent plastic
sheet

• These symmetrical nets of cable have a grid of 75 x 75 cm and support a wooden lattice,
upon which is attached a translucent plastic sheeting.

• At the roof, edges the cable nets are bordered by garland-shaped cables which pass over
adjustable angled supports of steel being anchored fast.

Garland-shaped cables
• The construction and form of the hanging from the arch correspond in the main to that of the
roof edge, thus allowing the same components to be used and also producing a series of
elliptically strung openings below the latticed arch

• These are filled by From inside

& glass eyes
equipped with
ventilators.

• The continuous, between about 3 and 5 m tall

facades, between the edge of the roof and
the ground in the region of the angled
supports incline from the eaves to the
interior at an angle corresponding to that of
these supports.

• The building thus has the first ever in itself

mobile, horizontally barred glass façade,
which is able to participate in the formal
changes allowed by the anchoring cables.
This extensive, and in itself
symmetrical area-covering
structure makes do with a minimum
of materials.

The logic of its construction, its

beauty, elegance and exceptional
boldness give the impression that
genuine functionality, invented by
technical intelligence, led to the real
aesthetic effect.