in progress / news

 

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

 

 

December 2023: unlucky contribution to IBAM’s Open Challenge: Cyber-physical twin prototypes for insulating thin-shell buildings with ceramic tiles and mycelium using additive and subtractive manufacturing processes.
More to follow 

 

Vallorbe station –digital pilot project for the Swiss Federal Railways SBB–

Berlin –Research project “Arbeiten Morgen”–

Alger

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

 

 

Reverse architecture of thin shell buildings
– modelling with NURBS based on point cloud for additive manufacturing – Work in progress.

 

 

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

 

 

Lectures on openBIM for master students in architecture and civil engineering, EPFL 2016-18

 

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

 

 

19.11.20 Accepted as active member of visual artists and architects’ society Visarte

 

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

 

 

25-27.06.04 Participation to the Camp for Oppositional Architecture by An Architektur, Berlin

 

 

11−13.10.2002 Participation to the IX International biennial of architecture Cracow, Poland

 

30.09.02 Master of Architecture by research (project) of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 1999-2001