Phil Ayres​

CITA

 

Phil Ayres is an architect, researcher and educator based at CITA, KADK, Denmark. His research focuses on the design and production of novel bio-hybrid architectural systems that couple technical & living complexes, together with the development of complimentary design environments. Phil has pursued this research in the context of two EU funded Future and Emerging Technology (FET) projects – flora robotica and Fungal Architectures –  acting as a Principle Investigator on both.

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Jan Brütting​

EPFL

 

Jan Brütting is a civil engineer and post-doctoral researcher at the Structural Xploration Lab of EPFL Lausanne. At EPFL he also obtained a PhD in civil and environmental engineering in 2020. His dissertation presents computational methods to design structures made of reused components to reduce environmental impacts. During his studies, Jan gained experience in structural optimization, form finding, and digital fabrication and he realized multiple pavilion structures.

Yu-Chou Chiang​

TU Delft

 

Yu-Chou Chiang is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Structural Design & Mechanics of Delft University of Technology, who investigates the interrelation between structural design, funicular form-finding, and digital fabrication. Having an engineering background, he worked as an educator and a researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, and as a structural engineer in several firms. In 2017, he started the PhD research on membrane shells and reconfigurable mechanisms, aiming to make the design and fabrication of elegant forms more efficient.

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David Jourdan

Inria

 

David Jourdan is a PhD student working at Inria Sophia-Antipolis in Nice, advised by Adrien Bousseau and Melina Skouras who will defend his thesis by the end of this year.
His work focuses in the computational design and fabrication of self-actuated structures, he is broadly interested in computer graphics, geometry processing and simulation and especially in exploiting the links between geometry and physics to create computational design algorithms.

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Nicolas Leduc​

T/E/S/S & Ecole des Ponts

Nicolas Leduc is an engineer and architect. He has worked for 15 years in engineering design offices (RFR and TESS) as a specialist of non-standard skins and structures. He teaches as associate professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and is also PhD student at the Laboratoire Navier (Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech).

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Stefana Parascho​

Princeton University

 

Stefana Parascho is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University where she founded the CREATE Laboratory Princeton. Her work focuses on multi-robotic fabrication methods and their relationship to architectural design, and is aimed at strengthening the connection between design, structure, and fabrication, and boosting the interdisciplinary nature of architecture.

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Jonas Schikore​

TU Munich

 

Jonas Schikore is a structural engineer working as research assistant at the Technical University of Munich, Department of Architecture. His teaching activities reach from basic structural design to experimental structures and parametric design. His research focus lies on elastic grid mechanisms, which are also the scope of his doctoral thesis in progress. He uses parametric structural modelling and simulation tools to evaluate the spatial kinetic behaviour of grids. As independent engineer, his projects include both conventional and special building structures such as membrane and elastic grid structures. He has worked at LEICHT s.e.a.s.c. in collaboration with ARUP and TAYO and collaborated with BARTHEL&MAUS.

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Shen-Guan Shih​

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

 

Shen-Guan Shih is a professor in the architecture department of National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology, with a broad range of research interest
centered on architecture and information technology.

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Alessandro Beghini​

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

 

Alessandro is an Associate Director and Structural Engineer with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, in San Francisco. As a Structural Engineer, Alessandro works in collaboration with Architects to develop innovative structural design for a variety of projects. Alessandro is also responsible for conducting research in the field of optimal structural topologies and emerging structural technologies. 

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Pim Buskermolen​

TU Delft

 

Pim Buskermolen MSc is a Lecturer at the Chair of Structural Design & Mechanics of the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. His expertise involves structural mechanics, stress functions, graphic statics, reciprocal figures and sustainable structural design. Pim holds an MSc degree in Building Technology from the TU Delft where he specialised in the structural behaviour of shell structures by combining Airy’s stress function with graphic statics.

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Rebeca Duque Estrada​

ICD - University of Stuttgart

 

Rebeca Duque Estrada is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart. With a deep interest in new materialities, robotic fabrication and computational design, Rebeca has been focusing her research on new approaches for fibre composite materials and robotic fabrication to create super lightweight structures. She holds a Master of Arts in Open Design from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Universidad de Buenos Aires as well as a Master of Science from the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) program at the University of Stuttgart.

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Fabian Kannenberg

ICD, University of Stuttgart

 

Fabian Kannenberg is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart, where he also received his Master of Science from the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) program. His current research at ICD is focused on the development of computational design methods for high performance fiber composite building systems.

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Klara Mundilova​

MIT

 

Klara Mundilova is passionate about the geometry of curved crease origami and develops software to design such foldings. She has a MSc in mathematics and is currently a PhD student in computer science at MIT.

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Mark Pauly​

EPFL

 

Mark Pauly is a professor of computer science at EPFL, where he directs the Geometric Computing Laboratory (GCM). He previously held academic positions at ETH Zurich and at Stanford University.

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His research explores the interface of several scientific disciplines, such as mathematics, computer science, mechanical engineering, and architecture to facilitate innovative computational design solutions for digital fabrication. He has co-founded two EPFL spinoff companies, Faceshift AG in 2012 and Rayform AG in 2016.

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Eike Schling​

University of Hong Kong

 

Eike Schling is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture, where he is teaching parametric methods, architectural geometry and structural behavior with the vision of enabling construction-aware design. Eike’s focus lies on interdisciplinary research with mathematicians and engineers to simplify complex lightweight structures without sacrificing the design-freedom. Eike completed his doctorate “Repetitive Structures” in 2018 with distinction at the Chair for Structural Design, Technical University in Munich. His architectural practice has produced innovative, strained gridshells in Munich and Ingolstadt. Eike’s work is coined by collaborations with international architecture offices, such as PLP in London and K+P in Munich.

Xavier Tellier​

Laboratoire Navier

 

Xavier Tellier is a structural engineer and researcher. He is currently in charge of R&D at Urban Canopee and postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Navier (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/Université Gustave Eiffel/CNRS). 

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During his PhD at Ecole des Ponts, he developed computational methods to design curved structures accounting for fabrication constraints and structural efficiency.

Mathias Bernhard​

University of Pennsylvania

 

Mathias Bernhard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Before that, he was a postdoc at Digital Building Technologies, ETH Zurich,investigating computational design tools foradditive manufacturing. He holds a Doctor of Sciences(Dr. sc.) in Architecture from ETH Zurich. His research focuses on how the increasingly ubiquitousavailability of data and computational power influences the design process and how different methodsofartificial intelligence, machine learning, or evolutionary strategies can be employed in the design and development of our built environment

Jorge Christie

ITKE Stuttgart

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Jorge Christie is a Chilean Architect, MAS ETHZ in Architecture and Digital Fabrication, MSc. ITECH from University of Stuttgart and PhD. candidate at the ITKE Institute at the same institution. His main research focus is on integrated design-to-manufacturing workflows for optimized lightweight composite structures. Currently, he develops a workflow for the production of freeform timber strand composites for high-performance building components.

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Maged Guerguis

University of Tennessee

 

Maged Guerguis is an Assistant Professor of Design and Structural Technology at The University of Tennessee. Maged is the director of Soft Boundaries, a multidisciplinary laboratory investigating the intersections of architecture, engineering, and science. His current research focuses on the development of high-performance integrated construction systems using large-scale additive manufacturing, robotic fabrication, novel materials, and advanced computational design methods. Prior to joining UT, Maged was a senior designer at SOM in Chicago. While at SOM, he led the design of AMIE 1.0, the world’s largest 3D-printed polymer structure, an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with the UT Governor’s Chair and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). 

Marina Konstantatou

Foster+Parnters

 

Marina is a researcher of structural design, form-finding, and architectural geometry. She has a background in mathematics, computational design, and civil engineering and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, on geometry-based structural analysis and design. Currently she is working at the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster + Partner

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Rupert Maleczek​

University Innsbruck

 

Rupert Maleczek is Architect, Researcher and digital Consultant, currently working as Senior Scientist at the institute of structure and design (i.sd), at the University Innsbruck. In his multidisciplinary work, he explores the relation between form, structure, performance, materiality and digital as well as physical production. The aim of his research is the understanding of complex relations to enhance control over them through controlled simplification. This process, also known as simplexity enables an unpretentious access to complex processes for non-specialists.

Elissa Ross​

MESH Consultants

 

Dr. Elissa Ross is a mathematician and a partner at MESH Consultants, a Toronto-based geometry consulting firm offering support to the architecture, engineering, construction and industrial manufacturing industries. Her research interests include geometric machine learning, algorithms for architecturally sensitive mesh operations, and other topics in shape modelling and discrete geometry. She is also the CEO of Metafold, a 3D printing technology company specializing in printing geometrically complex lattices and metamaterials in large build volumes. 

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Alexander Sehlström​

Chalmers University

 

Alexander Sehlström is a doctoral student at Chalmers University of Technology and work as a practicing structural engineer at WSP. His research concerns the analysis of prestressed shellsand ways to represent the interplay between geometry and forces.

 

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Chris Williams​

Chalmers University

 

Chris Williams is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology. His research hinges on the relationship between geometry and structural action, which has led to collaboration on projects such as the British Museum Great Court Roof, Savill Building, Gardens by the Bay glasshouses, and Netherlands Maritime Museum

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