• About us

    ArtEngineering GmbH introduces itself

Company history

  • 1998

    Foundation of the engineering office

    In 1998, Dr. Switbert Greiner founded the engineering office of the same name in Oberaichen near Leinfelden-Echterdingen close to Stuttgart Airport.

  • 2005

    ArtEngineering GmbH

    ArtEngineering GmbH is founded at the start of the realization contracts with the aim of being able to influence the construction processes and the result more directly in the interests of the client.

  • 2014

    Transfer of the company shares

    Dr. S. Greiner retires and Mr. Herwig Bretis M.Eng.Dipl.-Ing.(FH) takes over 100% of the ArtEngineering GmbH company.

  • 2016

    Relocation to Schorndorf

    ArtEngineering GmbH moves into the modernized offices of the former leather factory in the Röhm-Areal in Schorndorf near Stuttgart.

  • 2024

    Entry into society

    Mr. Alexander Spänig M.A.(arch.) M.Eng. becomes a member of the company.

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Team

Herwig Bretis

Herwig Bretis

M.Eng. Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

Shareholder-Managing Director

Alexander Spänig

Alexander Spänig

M.A. (arch.) M.Eng.

Shareholder-Managing Director

Carolina Völkl

Carolina Völkl

Team assistant

Jörg Beierbach

Jörg Beierbach

Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

Project manager

Juan Carlos Valdes

Juan Carlos Valdes

Dipl.-Ing. (FH), M.Sc.(arch.)

Project manager

Hussamaldeen Gomaa

Hussamaldeen Gomaa

M.Sc.(arch.)

Project manager

Shaqayeq Tahavvori

Shaqayeq Tahavvori

M.Sc.(arch.)

Working student

Farouk El Kihal

Farouk El Kihal

M.Sc.(arch.)

Working student

Services

Engineering and structural planning

As civil engineers, we have specialized in the field of lightweight construction, spatial structures of particular elegance and innovative and adapted construction.

All conceivable building materials are taken into consideration and a suitable choice is made with regard to use, production, costs, availability and existing craftsmanship and technological knowledge.

We take great pleasure in the play of forces, the secrets of material behavior and the shaping design of structures.

We work with an awareness of the importance of traditional craftsmanship and the cultural treasure it contains, as well as using the latest computer-aided technologies. We particularly enjoy exploiting unprecedented possibilities
for generating and processing geometric data for presentation, communication, structural analysis and production.

Our great role model is nature with its unrivaled beautiful and efficient load-bearing structures.

The range of our previous projects includes:

  • Classic structural design
  • Membrane buildings
  • Pneumatic structures
  • Interior textile applications
  • Objects of art
  • Light and design objects
  • Metal and lightweight steel construction
  • Glass and facade construction
  • Cable-tensioned structures
  • Convertible buildings
  • Plant buildings

Realization of objects

When it comes to the technical processing of (usually larger) art and design objects, it is always a challenge for us to capture the essence of the design and help it become a material form in the best possible way. As we want to exploit all technical and manufacturing possibilities in this process and have a major influence on quality, costs and deadlines, we are happy to go one step further from planning to execution. This also applies in the same way to the realization of special constructions of all kinds.

We believe that we only have the best chance of exploring the limits of what is physically, technologically, financially and time-wise feasible if we accompany the creation or production process up close, together with all those involved, and retain an appropriate influence on all details. This allows us to relieve our clients of a large amount of detailed technical and organizational work.

In doing so, we take over in part or as a whole the

  • Object planning,
  • the invitation to tender,
  • the awarding and
  • the monitoring of execution through to
  • for the sale of complete solutions.

We have a network of selected specialists from a wide range of sectors at our disposal for the production of the objects. Numerous examples of our work on art objects and special constructions can be found under Projects.

Project management

Interdisciplinary work, communication, structured processes and their monitoring are prerequisites for the successful completion of projects. Thanks to our experience in realizing objects and our involvement in large-scale international projects, we are able to offer the project management sub-area separately from other planning and implementation tasks.

Work plans

Particularly in the area of complex spatial structures, error-free and seamless work planning is crucial to the success of the project for the companies carrying out the work. We can rely on the latest software development in the area of spatial design. The path from the three-dimensional object to the flat plan or the preparation of production data for processing machines is a daily routine for us. We often use individually programmed software to help us make our work planning more efficient and flexible (e.g. generative geometry, parametric design).

ArtEngineering GmbH also offers work planning services independently of structural planning.

Product development and technology development

Our interdisciplinary team is predestined for the innovative development of products thanks to its special and broad know-how. We have developed textile-covered, backlit modules and tensioning systems for large-area textiles for ceiling and wall cladding, protected them with patents and used them in a variety of ways. Another focus of technological development is the production of double-curved flat components from thin sheet metal. For this purpose, we deal with forming according to the principle of the forming load case (see below: Switbert Greiner dissertation and Herwig Bretis master’s thesis summary) and the associated special welding technologies.

We look forward to breaking new ground with you, contributing to technical planning with an inventive spirit, developing products and opening up new areas of business.

Dissertation Switbert Greiner

Summary Master’s thesis Herwig Bretis

Tools und Programmierung

New and complex challenges require constant further development of tools and programming options.

In the past, we have often noticed that processes in large industrial companies are still very conventional and slow. Production data is often still reworked manually so that it can be processed on the machines. Here we can program routines and processes that replace manual processing, speed up the process and make the production data available as it is needed in order to save costs and avoid sources of error.

MixReality assembly with the Microsoft Hololens, as used in the Mori (link) and Futurium (link) projects, has proven its worth for unique assembly sequences consisting of several individual parts. ArtEngineering GmbH used Rhino and Grasshopper to derive the programming of the assembly sequence from a parametric model.

QR codes placed in the 3D model can be used to superimpose the 3D model on reality with millimeter precision, making it an excellent tool for checking complex 3D structures.

Als weiteres Werkzeug nutzen wir seit vielen Jahren die Möglichkeiten des 3D-Drucks in Materialien wie Edelstahl, EPDM oder neuerdings auch Kunststoffmaterialien auf unserem eigenen 3D-Drucker.

Customers

Architects/Designers

Architects of Air, UK
Architekten BKSP, D
Atelier Brückner, D
Atelier Sanfte Strukturen, D
BAD. Built by Associative Data, E
Behnisch Architects, D
Bureau Baubotanik, D
Christian Schneider-Moll, D
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, A
EXPOLAB, D
Felicitas Mossmann, D
Gerber Architects international, D
Günter Leonhardt & Associates, D
Hans-Walter Müller, F
Henning Larsen Architects, DK
Herzog & de Meuron, CH
Impulse Design, D
iO – Interdisciplinary Objects, D
Just-Burgeff Architects, D
kwy, D
Matthias Bauer Associates Stuttgart, D
Milla & Partner GmbH, D
Perkins + Will, USA
Pfrommer + Roeder, D
realities:united, D
Scala Architects, D
Schmidt Hammer Lassen, DK
SL-Rasch, D
Snøhetta, N
Studio Dinnebier, D
Studio LTA, D
Studio Ora ïto, F
Studio Other Spaces, D
Thomas Herzig – Pneumocell, A
Regrouping, D
Wehdorn Architects, A
Werner Paul Kestel, D
Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
Zoran Spehar, CH

Artists

Alicja Kwade, D
Anne Blanchet, CH
Astrid Klein, D
Doug + Mike Starn, USA
Ebon Heath, D
Immanuel Victor Eiselstein, D
Ingar Dragset & Michael Elmgreen, D/UK
Integral Ruedi Bauer, CH
Jorge Pardo Sculpture, USA
Mariele Neudecker, UK
Raimund Kummer, D
Robert Currie, UK
Simon Starling, UK
Stephan Breuer, F
Studio Bigert & Bergström, S
Studio Henrik Håkansson, D
Studio Jeppe Hein, D
Studio Katharina Grosse, D
Studio Olafur Eliasson, D
Studio Tobias Rehberger, D
Studio Tomás Saraceno, D
Timo Nasseri, D
Ulrich Brüschke, D

The company

A. Arnegger, D
Aeronautec, D
Al Mirkaz, KSA
Arnold AG, D
Delafair, D
Eicher workshops, D
Heinrich Rohlfing, D
Hermann Meisel, A
Iceland Prime Contractor, IS
Isolag, CH
KuKuk GmbH, D
Lantal Textiles, CH
MAHLE International GmbH, D
NUSSLI, CH
Peter Wörsching, D
Pollux Edelstahlverarbeitung, D
Rickmers-Linie, D
s-hamacher, D
Saudi Binladin Group, KSA
Schmid GmbH, D
Sefar, CH
Siteco lighting technology, D
Synex Tech, A
Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG, A
Zumtobel Lighting, A
[Steelworks] GmbH & Co KG, D

Engineers

Alfred Rein Engineers, D
Eberhard Raff, D
gbd, A
CCGT, D
Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner, D
Rainer Wohlleber, D
Walt+Galmarini, CH
Werner Sobek Engineers, D

Galleries/art associations/museums/theaters

Esther Schipper, D
Gallery König, D
Gallery neugerriemschneider, D
Kulturbetrieb Wagenhallen, D
Wolfsburg Art Museum, D
Ordrupgaard Museum, DK
Papageno Music Theater, D
Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, D
Tate Modern, UK
Textile Museum St.Gallen, CH
Wentrup Gallery, D
ZKM – Center for Art and Media, D

Universities/Institutes

GSI SLV Munich, D
Institute for Construction and
Design, A
Institute for Lightweight Structures Design and
Construct, D
Institute for Membrane and Shell Technology
technologies, D
Institute Fundamentals of modern
Architecture, D
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D
Blum laboratory, D
Laboratory for lightweight load-bearing structures, D
MPA University of Stuttgart, D
Münster School of Architecture, D
Technical University of Denmark, DK
TÜV SÜD, D
Stuttgart University Building Office and
Hohenheim, D

Public institutions

Company for technical cooperation
work, D
Cultural Institute, City of Braunschweig, D
State capital Stuttgart, D
Olfen town council, D
Vermögen u. Bau Baden-Württemberg, D
Württemberg State Museum, D

Project development/foundation

Randers Regnskov, DK
UBS Foundation (AST), CH

Vacancies

Civil engineer / structural engineer (f/m/d)
Schorndorf, Full-time
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Civil Engineer Intern (f/m/d)
Schorndorf, Full-time
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