Further, textile reinforced concrete has been successfully used in many cases as a retrofitting system for existing steel reinforced concrete structures, such as in the renovation of a heritage-listed barrel-shaped roof [9]. A detailed review of applications of textile-reinforced concrete recently carried out in Germany is given in [10].The present paper describes in detail the structural design and construction of a pavilion with an ambitious roof structure made of textile-reinforced concrete recently built on the campus of RWTH Aachen University. Once glazed on all sides, the pavilion will be used as a room for seminars and events (Fig. 1). The design by the Institute of Building Construction of RWTH Aachen University (bauko 2) uses umbrella-like shells as basic elements, each of which consists of an addition of four surfaces in double curvature, known as hyperbolic paraboloids (hypar surfaces).This shape refers to designs by the Spanish architect Félix Candela who, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, created many buildings in Mexico which are based on variations of such hypar shells [11] (Fig. 2).Such shell structures made of reinforced concrete have almost completely vanished from the current construction scene because of the corrosion problems of steel reinforced concrete and because of the labour-intensive fabrication of the complex in situ formwork. Here, TRC with non-corroding textile reinforcement provides new possibilities for the efficient realization of loadbearing systems with a small cross-sectional thickness. Owing to their low weight, such filigree loadbearing structures are particularly suitable for economical prefabricated construction