Cologne Airport – ICE Station
Werner Sobek Stuttgart engineered roofing, stairs and bridges of the new subterranean railway station at the Cologne/Bonn airport. The load-bearing structure of the barrel-shaped roof (with dimensions of 156 x 38 m) consists of extremely slender steel arches that run in parallel to each other.
Architecture
JAHN, Chicago/USA
Planning time
1997 − 2001
Construction time
2001 − 2002
Services by Werner Sobek
Structural engineering of steel structures (WP 1 − 6 acc. to § 64 HOAI)
GFA
5,000 m²
Client
Flughafen Köln-Bonn GmbH/Germany
Photography
HG Esch, Hennef/Germany
Andreas Keller, Altdorf/Germany
