digitalBAU 2022 - Forum and Guided Tours - Impressions

• Gerald Böse, Chairman of the Board of Management, Koelnmesse GmbH; Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management Messe München GmbH; Dieter Schäfer, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Messe BAU; Prof. Joaquin Diaz, Chairman of the Board of Bundesverband Bausoftware; Inga Stein-Barthelmes, Managing Director planen-bauen 4.0; Ernst Uhing, President of the Chamber of Architects NRW; Jörg Ziolkowski, Managing Director ASTOC Architects and Planners; moderated by Renato Turri, CEO World-Architects. Statement (digital) by Francesca Bria, President of the Italian National Innovation Fund, CDP Venture Capital Sgr, Rome.

• Managing Partner | ASTOC Architects and Planners, Cologne | astoc.de
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• Jörg Ziolkowski is Managing Partner at ASTOC ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS in Cologne. As a BIM expert, Jörg Ziolkowski is regularly involved as a speaker at various professional events and, among other things, as an active member of buildingSMART e.V. and as a member of the 12th Representative Assembly of the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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• Dipl.-Ing. Landscape Architect, Founder | Topotek1, Berlin/Zurich | topotek1.de
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• Landscape architect Martin Rein-Cano, founder of the Berlin-based office TOPOTEK 1, is one of the most important representatives of his generation in the field of urban design. Since 1996, TOPOTEK 1 has been working and implementing projects in interdisciplinary teams on an international scale. In addition, the designer, who works with a communicative, associative approach, established a successful architecture unit at two locations, Berlin and Zurich, in 2018. The best practice example for digital application in his projects is the groundbreaking collaboration with BIG Architects and Superflex in Copenhagen: Superkilen. The project illustrates his attitude and approach to city and society: always thinking outside the box, critically and playfully at the same time.

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• Municipal Planning Office Cologne | stadt-koeln.de
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• Eva Herr studied architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and gained professional experience as an architect in Berlin. In 2005, she went to Cardiff University for postgraduate studies in urban and regional planning and worked as an urban designer in the UK, first at the Essex Regional Council and later at the London Development Agency. After professional stations in Bremen, Cologne and Hamburg, she has been head of the Cologne Municipal Planning Office since 2019. Among other things, the planning office develops the complete urban land use planning for the city area of Cologne. Other key tasks include the planning control of the projects Parkstadt Süd, Deutzer Hafen and Kreuzfeld. In addition, the office is responsible for the design of public spaces, including the upgrading of the cathedral area, the "Via Culturalis" and the redesign of Ebertplatz.

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• O&O Baukunst, Köln | ortner-ortner.com
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• Christian Heuchel is an artist, architect and university professor. He studied architecture in Karlsruhe and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he has taught since 2000. He is founder of the rheinflügel architects’ association, the bureau Heuchel Klag artists’ office and the ULTRASTUDIO artists’ collective. He is managing partner of O&O Baukunst in Cologne and Vienna. At the Complutense University of Madrid he has been a member of the Advisory Board at the Art and City Department since 2020.

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• GAG Immobilien AG, Cologne | gag-koeln.de
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• André Hofmann studied Industrial Engineering with specialization in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2021 he works as Innovation Manager at GAG Immobilien AG. His expertise lies in driving forward digitization topics as well as identifying and leveraging innovation potential and new business ideas. In his previous professional positions in the energy and chemical industries, the primary focus of his work has always been on innovation and digitization.

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• Architect, Founder and Director for individualized construction production RWTH Aachen | ip.rwth-aachen.de
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• Sigrid Brell-Cokcan is founder and head of the Chair of Individualized Production in Architecture (IP) at RWTH Aachen University and president of the Association for Robots in Architecture (RiA), which was founded in 2010 and is dedicated to research into industrial robots for applications in architecture, design and art. Together with Johannes Braumann, she has pioneered the easy operation of industrial robots for the creative industries in recent years and has collaborated on international research and industry projects. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan co-founded the cross-faculty Center for Construction Robotics (CCR) and together with her IP Team nominated for the KUKA Innovation Award 2021.

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• Architect, Visionary, Managing Director and Partner at Snøhetta | Snøhetta, Innsbruck | snohetta.com
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• Architect Patrick Lüth has headed Snøhetta‘s studio in Innsbruck since 2011. In 2005, after studying architecture in Innsbruck, he started as an intern at the office in Oslo. Since then, he has been involved in numerous international architectural competitions and some of Snøhetta‘s best-known design submissions. Due to his in depth interest in complex 3D programmes, the trained carpenter found Snøhetta‘s way of working, which places as much emphasis on traditional craftsmanship as it does on the latest digital technologies, very appealing. Among other things, he is responsible for the Swarovski projects „Crystal Worlds Evolution“, Manufaktur, an innovative building for production and creative collaboration, and the new wooden building for ASI Reisen.

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• Architect & Engineer, Member of the Board and Partner at Werner Sobek AG, Stuttgart | Head of ILEK - Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design | wernersobek.com
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• Prof. Dr. Lucio Blandini is managing director and partner at Werner Sobek AG in Stuttgart. His focus is on innovation & knowledge management, making use of various digital methods and digital interfaces. Since 2018, he has been in charge of the digital research project DigitalTwin as project manager, in which renowned partners from industry and research further develop digital tools and techniques to network services, processes and workflows along the construction value chain. In addition, he has been heading the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart since 2020 as Werner Sobek‘s successor.

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• Researcher | Professor for Digital Building Fabrication TU Braunschweig | tu-braunschweig.de
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• Norman Hack is an architect and a researcher in the field of digital fabrication. He holds a degree in architecture from Technical University Vienna and the Architectural Association in London. His interest in seamless digital design and fabrication processes led him to peruse a doctorate with Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich as part of the NCCR Digital Fabrication. From 2018 until 2021 Norman held a tenure track professorship for Digital Building Fabrication at the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) at Technische Universität Braunschweig. At the beginning of 2022 he was appointed full professor in Digital Construction at the same institute.

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• Architect, Digital Expert, Managing Director of the Swiss National Research Focus (NCCR) Digital Fabrication | DFAB, Zurich | dfab.ch
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• Russell Loveridge studied civil engineering and architecture, completed his professional bachelors degree in Toronto, Canada, his MAS Diploma in Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and obtained his doctorate at the EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He has worked professionally in construction and architecture, but also has extensive experience in academia and was previously the Research Director at the Laboratory for Architectural Production (LAPA) at the EPF Lausanne. His research focuses on innovative manufacturing processes and material systems as well as novel construction methods, in consideration of the design process.

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• Architect, Director Berlin Office blocher partners | blocher partners, Berlin | blocherpartners.com
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• Wiebke Ahues studied architecture at the University of Dortmund and the Technical University of Dresden. Since 2015, she has been working in the Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects, where she has been an associate since 2017. She is responsible for an interdisciplinary acquisition team. Using digital planning and construction methods, she creates timber hybrid constructions, parametrically designed façades and develops practical approaches for reuse and robotics with Maria Wyller. She supports the research project “shaping space” of Professor Christoph Gengnagel, Berlin University of the Arts (udk), with her practical know-how. From March 2021 she will be working for blocherpartners as Director Berlin Office.

• Architect, Visionary | David Chipperfield Architects, Berlin | davidchipperfield.com
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• Maria Wyller studied architecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and computational design and digital fabrication at the University of Stuttgart under Professor A. Menges and Professor J. Knippers. During her studies she gained professional experience at Wulf Architekten in Stuttgart, and since 2020 she has been working as an architect at David Chipperfield Architects in Berlin. Maria Wyller has published papers on topics such as adaptive architecture, mobile robotics,and integrative design methods.

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• Architect, Partner | Jürgen Mayer H Architekten und Partner, Berlin | jmayerh.de
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• J. MAYER H. was founded by Jürgen Mayer H. in 1996 in Berlin. Since 2014 Andre Santer and Hans Schneider are partners of the office. J. MAYER H. und Partner works at the interfaces of architecture, communication design and new technologies. The use of interactive media and responsive materials plays a central role in the production of space. This is clearly reflected, among other things, in their IGZ Campus project in Falkenberg, where the focus is on innovative building technology, Working 4.0 and the creation of regional ties with the brand „IGZ - Die SAP Ingenieure“ as an innovative and responsible employer.

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• Civil Engineer, Head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart | Jan Knippers Ingenieure, Stuttgart | janknippers.com
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• Jan Knippers studied civil engineering at TU Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1992. From 2001 to 2017 he was a partner at Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering. Key projects from this period include the EXPO Axis in Shanghai, the Thematic Pavilion in Yeosu and the Gallery of the Berlin State Opera. Since 2000 he has been director of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart. In 2018 he founded Jan Knippers Ingenieure, based in Stuttgart.

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• Partners, Architects, Landscape Architects, Urban Planners LOMA | LOMA, Kassel | loma-online.de
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• The architect Ilija Vukorep together with landscape architect and urban planner Wolfgang Schück have been running the planning office LOMA architecture. landscape.urbanism since 1999. From the beginning, the interdisciplinary team has specialised in a field of work that results from the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. In recent years, the team has intensively focused on digital design methods and the interfaces to construction; „parametric design“ is regularly used in their daily work. The example of the Summer Island project for the Federal Garden Exhibition (BUGA) 2019 in Heilbronn is a good illustration of the entire process: in the planning phase, the entire landscape formation was created parametrically; in the construction process, the data from the digital model was transferred to the control system of the excavators and implemented directly. There were no classic plans for this project.

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