Speakers at Facade 2021- Digital! 

Earlier in his career he led the structural team within Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit working on complex and iconic projects such as the Taichung Opera House, Grand Museum of Egypt and the Arcelor Mittal Olympic Orbit in London.  After his return to Germany he joined the office of Werner Sobek leading the design of challenging façade projects such as the Qatar National Museum or the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku.

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His deep interest in innovative technologies and methods of constructions led him to his current research focus on additively manufactured polymer facades. In parallel to his research, Matthias is founder and COO of the tech startup SAEKI Robotics which provides robotic digital manufacturing hardware and software solutions.

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One of her projects was the Urban Cabin, one of the world's first 3D printed thermoplastic houses. In 2018, she worked at the European Space Agency in the Advanced Concepts Team as a Space Architecture and Infrastructure researcher to develop future 3D printing solutions for a moon habitat. Currently, Ina is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication, investigating the potential of Additive Manufactured Facades.

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She is working on the “Integrative Façade Systems” project within the NCCR Digital Fabrication, in collaboration with Ph.D. candidates Ina Cheibas, from Gramazio Kohler Research, and Matthias Leshok, from the Chair for Digital Building Technologies. Before her Ph.D., Valeria studied Architecture at Politecnico di Milano and completed a Master of Science in Building Technology at the Delft University of Technology. During her studies and in her thesis, she focused on performance-driven design and digital fabrication applied to the building envelope.”

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 She became a researcher at the Detmold School where she developed the bachelor course Sustainable Construction and at Delft University of Technology where she conducted her PhD thesis on Life Cycle Assessments in the Architectural Planning Process. During that time she was part of the Façade Research Group and involved in several publications, both as author and editor such as the imagine book series. She is a consultant for sustainability in design competitions with focus on LCA in the early planning phase as well for feasibility studies for facades with clients like Google and Apple. In 2014 she was appointed as Juniorprofessor for Reuse in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University where she is working on methods and implementation of circular value creation in the construction industry in education and research. The PhD group Circularity in the Built Environment was established in 2015 and deals with the design and construction process, tools and the construction solution for the Circular Economy.  The research activities range from regional projects to implement resource efficient and circular building production in the Rhenish Area over national projects which include the DBU Project Alnatura Campus and international projects such as ErasmusPlus on Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environment or ClimateKik on Reverse Logistics in the façade industry. Since 2020 she is working with the Start-Up Concular closing the loop towards circularity by using computation for reuse in architecture.

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Previously, she conducted her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on embodied carbon of buildings. A key element in Catherine's work is ensuring a continuous link between academia and industry. Therefore, she works with real-world examples such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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She studied architecture at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), after which she obtained a Masters in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Deepika Raghu’s master’s thesis was a strategic framework to enable component reuse from existing buildings using digital technology such as advanced computation and machine learning. In her thesis, she explored the potential of digitalization of the built environment using Google Street View images. She works in the domain of circular design and brings creative, interdisciplinary thinking to projects that can bring about systemic change.

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The idea was to develop a modular room system that can be built very flexibly and without tools anywhere in crisis areas. The material for the building envelope should be plastic waste, which is lying around in gigantic quantities in the refugee camps and unfortunately in the environment. Together with the HSLU, competence center for building envelopes, the project was implemented. In the meantime, Raphael and his team have founded a second company, UpBoards GmbH, which is specialized in the production of highly rigid polymer composite recycling boards.

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CM waren Finalisten des Zumtobel Group Award 2017und Gewinner des internationalen Iddeenwettbewerbs Beyond Bauhaus 2019. Im Jahr 2018 erwarb das CentrePompidou die Installation „Mine the Scrap“ für seine ständige Sammlung.

Zuvor hat Tobias Nolte die Büros von Gehry Technologies in New York und Paris geleitet, wo er ein Team vonArchitektInnen bei der Entwicklung und Umsetzung parametrischer und computergestützter Methoden in derArchitektur leitete. In den Jahren davor war er Forschungsassistent an der Harvard University Graduate School ofDesign und arbeitete für das Büro Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. Er unterrichtete digitales Entwerfen an der ÉcoleSpéciale d’Architecture in Paris sowie an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien. Tobias Nolte studierteArchitektur an der TU Berlin und am Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

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More recently, he worked on Bloomberg European Headquarters, Apple Campus, multiple Apple stores and buildings in Amaravati Masterplan. Previously, Xiaoming worked at Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts as a daylighting research scientist. Xiaoming holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in architecture. 

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André has developed a ray tracing software for the simulation of devices and their performance in complex environments using multicriteria optimization. André holds a PhD for his work on micro structured films for advanced light management in buildings. He is also an expert when it comes to the microfabrication techniques used for the realization of such complex optically functional films, from structuration to coating. André now works with Infrascreen, developing next generation light managing films for the greenhouse industry. He also is an independent consultant and provides his R&D expertise in the modeling and fabrication of complex optical devices.

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He is employing experimental methods and simulation to study the effects of fenestration on the availability of daylight in buildings and the visual comfort of occupants. Lars holds a PhD from Izmir Institute of Technology for his research in the data-driven modeling of complex fenestration by light scattering measurements. He drives the gonio-photometric laboratory at HSLU and contributes his expertise in collaborations with research and industry partners.

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 Stephen’s research focuses on strategies for efficiently finding the most significant details that characterize the full distribution of daylight conditions within a space. Prior to his PhD studies, Stephen received an M.Arch from the University of California, Berkeley and has over 10 years of experience working as an architect and building performance consultant with a focus on daylight and lighting design.

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