Konrad Schäfer

 

With passion to innovations.


Material, technology and function
provide the impetus for new ideas,
for products with an authentic statement,
for products with ecological reason
and esprit.

Armlehnstuhl aus GFK – glasfaserverstärktem Polyester - 1968
Messestand für die Hoechst AG
Messestand Hoechst AG
Noblan
Messestand Einstein
Silkatstein
Mobile Bar, Grandhotel Esplanade Berlin 1989
Materialpräsentation HPW, Internationaler Messestand für Innenarchitekten, Hamburg
Materialpräsentation HPW
belform - PUR Hostyren 1973
belform - PUR Hostyren 1973
Lüdke Stuhlprogramm
Zelte
Schachspiel mit Skizzenblatt
Modell für mobile Bar
Vollkunststoff Stapelstuhl aus GF-Polyamid - BASF 1973
Lüdke
belform - PUR Hostyren 1973

Curriculum

 

•  Tübingen*

• Carpentry apprenticeship

• Studies
  1961 HFG Ulm – Industrial Design
  1962 Werkkunstschule Darmstadt - interior design
  1963 HfbK Berlin Architecture

• 1969 Cologne trade fair presentation of the first plastic shell chair with armrests

• 1970 qualified as a factory architect at HDK Berlin

• 1970 Atelier Konrad Schäfer
   for product, trade fair and furniture design

• 1979 K'79 Düsseldorf - trade fair stand for Hoechst AG
   The World's No.1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber

• 1980 concentration on material developments

• 1985 Founding of Bick GmbH, development + production
   Noblan mineral stone

• 1987 sale of Bick company to Glunz AG – mineral stone slab
   Noblan and production

• 1990 “Einstein” mineral stone slab for TEXTEC -  Wiebe AG Berlin
   Base   Acrylic polymer + minerals

• 1992– Geopolymer based water glass
   Silicate brick

• 1994 founding of REC Werkstoffe GmbH
   in Adlershof Technology Park
   for material development geopolymer with water glass on a material cycle basis
   R&D collaborations

• 1999 REC office and production hall
   Design and new building in Berlin Oberschöneweide

• 2002 founding of REC Bauelemente GmbH
   Material development and production of high-performance concrete, ultra-light concrete
   Molded parts, plates, exposed concrete panels
   R&D collaborations

• 2004 order from HBF Berlin for blind guide panels > 20,000 panels of high-performance concrete

• 2006 Acryllith, stick-on guide plates for the blind - start of production
   First relocation at the Potsdamer Platz regional station

• 2008 Start of production of exposed concrete panels.
   International projects

 

 

Awards


• 1971 International AWARDS for Furniture
   for Topline, Belform, Setline etc.

• 1989 Paris Batimat Grand Prix de Triomphe 
   for Noblan mineral stone

• 2008 Cologne AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Office XXL
   for wall panels

• 2009 Munich AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Construction
   for Stuccolith, Betonlith & Betonlith light

• 2009 Hanover AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Soil from AIT
   for Betonlith floor slab concrete

• 2010 Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany silver - material design
   for wall panel exposed concrete

• 2011 Hannover AIT Innovation Prize Architecture and Soil of the AIT
   for exposed concrete Betonlith gray,
   Exposed concrete concrete - LIGHT white.
   Exposed concrete concrete - LIGHT black

• 2011 Munich AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Construction
   for concrete - LIGHT

• 2012 Focus Open International Design Award silver
   for Beton-Light wall panel

• 2013 Munich AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Construction
   for concrete light

• 2015 Munich AIT Innovation Prize for Architecture and Construction
   for stuccolith sandwich board