This is for Architecture Students as a reference for presentation over the designs done by the Famous Architect Helmut Jahn.

1. HELMUT JAHN
POST MODERN ARCHITECT

2. DESIGN PHILOSPHY
 His Architectural Philosophy stressed the intuitive nature of creative rationalism.
 This lead to a more flexible approach to design and to some signaled a decisive
break with a formal ideology of high modernism.
 Using a variable wide ranging in architecture symbolsing a easy way for the users
and viewers.

3. BIOGRAPHY
 Helmut Jahn (born January 4, 1940) is a Chicago-based German-American architect.
 Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1940, and grew up watching the reconstruction of the
city, which had been largely destroyed by Allied bombing campaigns.
 In 1966, he emigrated to Chicago to further study architecture at the Illinois Institute of
Technology, leaving school without earning his degree.
 Generally inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, yet opposed to the doctrinal application of
modernism by his followers.
 known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, the
Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (formerly the
tallest building in Philadelphia), and the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in
Bangkok, Thailand. Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016
and the Thyssenkrup Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017.

4. FIRM/PRACTICE
 HelmutJahn joined C. F. Murphy Associates in 1967 was appointed Executive Vice President and
Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973. Taking sole control from 1981, the firm was
renamed JAHN,
 JAHN is an international architectural firm with over 75 years of experience that has achieved
critical recognition and won numerous awards. JAHN’s ability to integrate design creativity and
corporate professionalism makes it a leading firm in global design Innovation.
 The firm has completed buildings on four continents encompassing a wide range of typologies
and scales. firm’s commitment to design excellence and the improvement of the urban
environment has been acknowledged worldwide. The firms projects are led from their office in
Chicago along with support from the Berlin office.
 JAHN has a proven track record in the form of numerous built projects, where landmark
architecture is successfully, if not spectacularly, incorporated within the framework of program,
budget and schedule. The ability of JAHN to produce significant architectural statements on a
consistent basis are given credence by the firm’s stature in the architectural and public press.

5. THE MOST PROMINENT WORK
the Sony Center on
the Potsdamer Platz
in Berlin, Germany.
the Messeturm
in Frankfurt,
Germany
the One Liberty Place in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(formerly the tallest building
in Philadelphia),
the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international
airport in Bangkok, Thailand

6. AWARDS
 1991 - "Ten Most Influential Living American Architects" from the American Institute of Architects.
 1993 - "Outstanding Achievement/Architect Award" from the American Academy of Art, Chicago.
 1994 - "Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse" of the Federal Republic of Germany.
 2002 - Institute Honour Award of the American Institute of Architects for the Sony Center.
 2005 - Murphy/Jahn, Inc. recipient of the AIA Architecture Firm Award.
 2005 Pratt Institute Legends Award
 2005 TetraEner European Commission Concerto Award
 2006 AIA Chicago Firm of the Year Award
 2008 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architecture Excellence In Community Design

7. SUVARNBHUMI AIRPORT ,BANGKOK
• The Suvarnabhumi Airport is constructed on a greenfield site 24 km east of Bangkok.
• The first phase, accommodating 45 million annual passengers will include 56 contact
gates and 64 hardstand positions with 563,000 SM of terminal facilities.
• Planned maximum capacity after phased expansion will be 120 million annual
passengers.

8. • A large roof trellis structure placed over the complex of functionally separate
buildings unifies the site and provides the predominant architectural image as
approached from the landside.
• the trellis serves an important function by shading the structures below from
direct sunlight, thereby reducing mechanical loads.
• Outdoor spaces between the buildings are also shaded by the roof
trellis and are important to the overall concept.
• Rather than simply comprising empty areas reserved for future
expansion, they are landscaped courtyards, useful for pedestrians and
a visual amenity for the passengers in the terminal above.
• Cultural artifacts and traditional architectural elements are placed
within these landscaped courtyards, linking the terminal complex to
the cultural traditions of Thailand.

9. PLAN
TRELLIS DETAILS
• Use of Trellis having a curvy struvture.
• Use of different Materials like steel ,
mill finish alluminium, cable façade
walls, translucent fabric material is
been used.
• Use of different technologies for the
layout of the structure. of the
structure.

10.  The concourse enclosure, which will house the holdrooms and passenger
transportation means, is comprised of 5-pin arch truss girders with an
alternating system of glazed facades and a translucent fabric membrane set-
up, which is spanned to bridge the 27 m spacing between the glass facades.
 The laminated glass of the glass facade will receive a sun protection coating
and a ceramic frit of variable densities.
 While the fritting is relatively dense at the rooftop to achieve good solar
protection against the high standing sun in Thailand.
 it decreases gradually towards the lower parts to allow for good views to the
outside.

12. CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
JOE & RIKA MANSUETO LIBRARY

13. Manseuto library
 Constructed by Helmet Jhan
 Completed in the year 2011
 Built because the university was running out of space for new books.
 Around 3.5 million volume of books available

17. Chicago’s
Thompson Centre

19. PLAN
• In the midst of the tall,rectilinear skyscrapers which make up downtown Chicago
appears a short, sloped glass curtain wall, topped by a protruding truncated cylinder
structure.
• Hulmut jahn’s Thompson centre open in 1985 , the building was to be home for a variety of
agencies of the state of illionis .
• The design was a play off the traditional American statehouse , updated with glass wall
symbolizing government transperancy and an immense atrium evoking the atrium spaces
found in us.
• The interiors spaces, however stirred further contention with the public .
• Unconventional red,blue and white paints coat the interior elemtents –a design choice many
believed to be provocative and even jarring.

20. ELEVATION

21. • When the building opened in 1985 , the all-glass curtain wall would
overheat the interior and cause intense , teriible glares onto the
workspaces inside .
• The design shocked critics and Chicagoans alike ate the time, creating
controversy for its universal form, exuberant atrium and for the
teething problems.
• This made the building a constant focus for negative press.