15th 'Textile Structures for New Building' contest

In 2019, Techtextil – International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens is organizing the 15th 'Textile Structures for New Building' contest. As in the years before the international association TensiNet is supporting the contest as a sponsor with prize money amounting to € 8,000. Furthermore the contest will be medially accompanied and supported by our media partner Architonic.

This competition is designed to identify innovative thinking and innovative solutions to problems, featuring construction projects capable of concrete realisation which use textiles or textile reinforced materials. A further aim is to encourage students and new entrants to the professions. The competition is further intended to strengthen contacts between the younger generation, the universities, the technical-textiles industry and broad sections of the building industry.

The assignment for students and young professionals participating in the ‘Textiles Structures for New Building 2019’ contest which will be presented at Techtextil 2019 is to create solutions in the following areas of textile building.

- Industrial and structural engineering – from components using textile-reinforced concrete or plastics to construction using membranes for permanent and temporary, adaptable and mobile buildings
- Interior construction – including such developments as the use of polymer fibre-optic cables for light transmission, textile air-channel systems for draught-free air conditioning in rooms, movable sound-insulation walls in production facilities, etc.
- Product design for architecture
- An additional focal theme has also been included: 'Suitability for re-use and recycling'
- Urban Living – City of the future: Cities are the living space of the future. Radical thinkers as well as trend and textile experts have looked into the interfaces at which technology and textiles will grow together in future to enhance the quality of urban life. How will technical textiles shape architecture in the future?


The subject of the project submitted is a free choice.