in progress / news
Mai 2024
Winning project Innosuisse / IBAM:
RECOBI –Renovation of complex geometry building with additive manufacturing–
Cyber-physical twin prototype on a thin shell building
18.09.24 Exposé at Graphisoft Day, Lausanne:
Les nouvelles technologies pour la rénovation de bâtiments à géométrie complexe
– 3 prototypes de jumeaux numériques et architecture inverse –
IBAM / Innosuisse RECOBI cyber-physical prototypes: Lidar based parametric model to produce ceramic tiles with additive manufacturing which aim is to insulate and vegetalise para- and hyperboloid buildings –CO2 reduction, contribution to sponge city concept & biodiversity enhancement–
Alger –Guild masters’ houses in the Casbah-
process –to digital twin (architecture)–
1. Model –or existing building–
2. Scan 3D (mesh)
3. Point cloud
4. Parametric mockup –reverse architecture–
5. Architect’s plans: algorithmic extraction from mockup
continued news
Swiss Federal Railways staff premises in Payerne (Vaud) Reverse architecture of for simulation of use densification. –with WAE architecture & Jaquier Pointet–. 2024
December 2023: delivery of the Prototype of
digital twin of the Gottfried Semper Aula.
Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation, Department of Architecture, ETH-Zürich
Reverse architecture of thin shell buildings
– modelling with NURBS based on point cloud for additive manufacturing – 2023
September 2023:
Request stop for the train in Klockow ?
Schloen-Dratow, Müritz National Park [D]
Within Initiative Klockow3
October 2022:
entry to the invitational competition for the central heating plant in Lausanne-Malley. Partnership with v2v Architectes
October 18-21, 2022
Explorations of digital spaces
Open door days
Navigation through 3D models and mockups on an immersive screen in frugal engineering
September 2022, publication of
“Architecture inverse et jumeau numérique au service du patrimoine” (Reverse architecture and digital twin at the service of heritage buildings) in À Suivre…, N°85, Swiss Heritage Society –section Vaud–
05-06.06.22: contribution to the IPHS 2022 conference with «An open standard digital twin for heritage buildings»
April 2022: entry to the competition « Espace Familles ». Multipurpose complex for families in the Avanchets neighbourhood, Geneva
19.03.22: IPHS announce the conference will be held at the TU-Delft
06.03.22: IPHS has canceled the conference
02.03.22: Protest against the war in Ukraine: withdrawal of my participation in IPHS conference, July 2022 in Moscow
2022, Residential building in Abidjan.
Urban study for a densification: testing the « block model » including preliminary design
20 years of digital architecture:
October 17-22, 2021: public presentations of digital mockups and point clouds on a low-tech immersive screen prototype
16.03.21 Contribution to an_architecture competition for the extension of international research center on anarchism (CIRA), Lausanne
05-08.07.20 “Reverse architecture: an open standard digital twin for heritage buildings”. Contribution to the IPHS 2020 conference with Chair of Prof. C.Hein, TU-Delft. View peer reviewed paper here
24.02.20 The documentation of the Prototype of the Vallorbe Station Digital Twin -pilot project on openBIM-transformation- (illustration) has been submitted to the SBB after more than 2 years of intensive work.
Executive summary and glossary available here (in French)
Prototype of immersive screen for the exploration of digital mockups in architecture.
17.08.20 Proof of concept for «Immersive IFC» at the ZHdK Immersive Lab
15.10.19 “Is the digital cube empty?- or reverse architecture for design-” Lecture at the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS)
28.11.18 “Reverse architecture: openBIM for the transformation of heritage buildings”. Contribution to BIM World Munich
2011 Proposal to realise an infrastructure for eco-mobility in the Müritz National Park, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [D]. Citizens’ initiative to maintain an historic train stop as de-central entrance to the park, project and exhibition
22.01.08 Successful application for funds to restore the historic facade from the Kindergarten of the Sophie parish in Berlin-Mitte. EU funds ERDF / Städtebaulischer Denkmalschutz Land Berlin
13-15.11.07 « Arbeiten Morgen: a meta-bazaar for Berlin? –Bottom-up revitalisation of deindustrialised quarters: a pilot-building for micro-companies– »
Participation to the conference by the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR). Tunis. Tunisia
30.09.02 Master of Architecture by research (project) of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 1999-2001
siteplan
• News
• Major Projects
· Arbeiten Morgen – reclaiming industrial site through the implantation of micro-companies –
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• Continued New
· 20 years of digital architecture
· Archive of the openBIM lectures to master students in architecture & civil engineering EPFL 2016-17
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VALLORBE digital twin prototype –pilot project for the Swiss Federal Railways, SBB–
• Project description
• Executive summary & Glossary (in French)
• Prototype of digital twin
REVERSE ARCHITECTURE
• Lecture and article
• Example projects
WORKS –folio of projects–
• Transformation & Heritage
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• Transport & Industry
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• Housing & Culture
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• Urban design
· Le Laboratoire du Désert
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• Prototype & Research
· Immersive screen prototype
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· Lectures on openBIM (EPFL 2016-2017)