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Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel is an architect, researcher, writer and educator. He gained his PhD at the University of Reading and is tenured professor at AHO - the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where he directs the Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics (RCAT). Previously he taught for 16 years at the Architectural Association in London and held visiting professorships and innovation fellowships in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He is founding and current chairman of both the OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association (SEA), as well as board member of BIONIS - the Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability. Since 2007 he is editorial board member of AD Wiley and since 2012 also of FORMakademisk. Previously he was editorial board member of JBE - Journal of Bionic Engneering, Elsevier Scientific Press. He wrote extensively about research by design, performance-oriented architecture, sustainability and other topics in architecture and urban design and has published, lectured and exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Contact: Michael.Hensel(at)aho.no For further information see: |
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Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel [MSc AA EmTech AA Dipl RIBA II] (born 1979, İstanbul, Turkey) is an architect, interior architect, researcher and board member in OCEAN Design Research Association (2008) and research fellow at AHO (2008-2012), the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She studied architecture Part I at Kent University and completed her diploma degree at the Architectural Association, where she also gained her MSc in the Emergent Technologies and Design Program. Currently, she pursues her PhD entitled; Multiple Performance Integration Models Based on Wood and Clay Based Systems as a Research Fellow, a stipend by AHO. In the field of Research by Design, her interdisciplinary work extends into the fields of biology, engineering, material science, microclimatology and computation and receives great support from the industry; mainly the Norwegian Brick Association, Wienerberger and institutions such as the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. She pursues an integral approach to materials in architectural design; currently focusing on commonly termed ‘conventional', traditional materials such as wood and brick. Multiple performance in architecture forms the core of her research where it is essential to advance on the understanding and utilization of materials' inherent properties and the spatial material organization that correlate to an alternative approach to sustainable and ecological design. Team efforts and collaborations within and beyond OCEAN make it possible to engage in complex questions related to our built environment. Biological systems and traditional architectures set as prime examples to multiple performances and form the core areas of investigation. She has been closely involved in investigating structural masonry and its evolutionary development informing research into complex brick systems, which includes projects such as Nested catenaries and Complex brick assemblies. Latest work on this topic includes the exhibition, symposium and construction experiments at AHO entitled; Eladio Dieste: Advancing architecture through material systems innovation (2010). Previously, she received the Buro Happold studentship (2006) to pursue her research into Complex Brick Assemblies, the Holloway Trust Award (2006) for a significant contribution to the construction industry, a stipend by BDA - the Brick Development Association (2007), the Anthony Pott Memorial Award (2007) for detailed analysis and research of Eladio Dieste's work as well as the CERAM Industrial Category Award (2007). She held Innovation Fellowships, published, lectured, thought and exhibited internationally and her work has been published widely. She co-guest edited a special issue of AD entitled; Turkey at the Threshold (2010). Contact: Defne.Sunguroglu(at)aho.no For further information see: > OCEAN Design Research Association > RCAT - Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics |
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Prof. Guillem Baraut (Barcelona, 1977), graduated with honours in Civil and Structural Engineering in 2001 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, obtaining the Dragados 2003 first prize for the best degree’s final dissertation competition. He continued his studies sitting the PhD courses until 2005, when he moved to London. He received the MA Emergent Technologies and Design at the Architectural Association, supported by a ‘la Caixa’ studentship. He graduated in 2006 with distinction, obtaining the second International Feidad Prize in 2006 for the MA EmTech dissertation in collaboration with Mattia Gambardella. Guillem has a wide teaching experience at different universities and master-programmes including the Escola Sert where he has been teaching courses in pre-stressed concrete, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Institut für Kunst und Architektur (Vienna) where he took the role of teaching support on parametric design tools, and the International University of Catalonia as a professor of Structures III. He is also an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, teaching both undergraduate and graduate/PhD courses in structural engineering. Guillem worked in the company TEC’4 from 1998 to 2001. He moved to BOMA in 2001, where has since then developed his career becoming partner in 2003. In 2007 he was promoted to Director of the International Department. From this position he has developed over 240 projects worldwide collaborating with some of the world’s leading architects. Among these projects is worth mentioning: Villa Nurbs (Cloud9, Empuriabrava, Spain, 2005), La Sed Pavilion (Cloud9, Zaragoza, Spain, 2007), Prestige Forest Hotel (Cloud9, Zaragoza, Spain, 2007), the new Szczecin Philharmonic (Barozzi&Veiga, Poland, 2008), a sports complex, hotel and offices in St Petersburg (Willy Müller, Russia, 2008), Spiralling Tower (Zaha Hadid, Barcelona, 2009), Igualada pedestrian bridge (Igualada, Barcelona, 2009), hotel complex, offices and shopping centre in Ningbo (Pierre Lafon, China, 2010), High Speed Train station of Perpignan (L35 Architects, France, 2010), new building of the Universidad Javeriana (La Rota arch., Colombia, 2011), the new Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (Crtl+G, Colombia, 2011), new hangar in Boufarik (Algeria, 2011), and several dwellings blocks in Almaty (Kazakhstan, 2007), Tangier (Azorín, Morocco, 2008), Ordos (two projects with Barozzi& Veiga, and Coll&Leclerc Mongolia, 2008), Hydra (Proarquitectura, Algeria, 2010), Toulouse and Bayonne (MAP Architects, France, 2011), Hangzhou (X. Claramunt, China, 2008) and Riyadh (Ll. Tejero, Saudi Arabia, 2010). His research interests focus on topology optimization and on the application of cutting edge technologies to structural engineering design, such as the use of parametric tools, as well as the use of generative digital tools for the design and manufacturing in construction. Contact: guillem.baraut(at)boma.es |
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Dr. Pavel Hladik is an architect and researcher in OCEAN. His research focuses on complex systems and advanced computing methods in architectural design with interest in close collaboration with teams across building design disciplines. He participated on projects where fast data communication was established especially with lighting, environmental and structural designers. His interest in design of architectural form is always connected with a real-time feedback and performative concepts. Pavel Hladik obtained his master's degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association - Emergent Technologies and Design and he holds PhD from CTU in Prague. His education was focused on generative parametric design of branched structures, growth algorithms and movable structures. He was also trained in internal Arup University course in Computer Design Optimization module in 2009/2010.
His research has been published and awarded in Europe, Asia and United States. He had been a visiting tutor at the CTU in 2005-2010 and among his academic work belong a visiting tutor at the Academy of Arts in Vienna (2007), University of Brighton (2012) and participation on various workshops for London design schools.
In his professional career he specialized in stadium design in international design and consultancy firm AECOM (Global Sports). He worked on stadium concepts and on-site projects in Europe, Middle East, Asia and South America. Among currently on-site projects belongs Singapore National Stadium where his focus was mainly on large span shell roof structure and he also worked on Aquatics Centre for Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Pavel Hladik also worked for various design studios in Prague, London and Singapore (SOM, ArupSport, Arup, Arup Associates). In Prague he has co-founded the design group nolimat which specialises on architecture and lighting industry.
Contact: pavel.hladik(at)nolimat.com |
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Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD MNIL PhD] is professor at the Institute of Design at AHO - Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a principle researcher in OCEAN design research association. He is an academic and designer working in a broad field of design and architecture. He has been in private practice since 1986. His practice spans from architecture, interior to furniture and product design including design of lighting armatures and boat design. It also includes experimental architecture and several art installations in collaboration with the composer Natasha Barrett in the context of OCEAN. Birger Sevaldson has been developing concepts in design computing and his doctoral thesis from 2005 is based on 15 years of research into this field. He has been collaborating in OCEAN design research association since 1997 and the experimental design projects resulting from this collaboration have been published worldwide. The research into digital design developed into a wider interest in the design process and especially design processes for uncertainty, unforeseen futures and complexity. This research grew out of the digital research which initially engaged in time related design, where time was explored as a design material. Later this approach was further developed and new concepts for systems thinking in design emerged. He has defined Systems Oriented Design as a designerly way of systems thinking and systems practice. Birger has lectured and taught in Norway, Europe, Asia and USA and has held a visiting professorship at NACD in Oslo and has been a visiting critic at Syracuse University School of Architecture, USA. He is currently visiting professor at the University College of Ålesund, Norway. He was collaborating in the start-up of the academic design journal FORMakademisk and is in the editorial board of the journal. He has been in a number of international evaluation committees amongst them the evaluation committee for Danish design research under the Ministry of Culture of Denmark, and the evaluation committee for a science master for the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC), Ireland, and the evaluation committee for the EID project by the Swedish energy authorities. Birger is member of the council of the Design Research Society. Birger has held several positions amongst them, leader of the National Council for Design Educations in Norway, Vice Rector of Oslo School of Architecture and Design, curator of Gallery AHO, director of OCEAN Design Research Association and the co-organizer of NORDES 2011. Contact: Birger.Sevaldson(at)aho.no For further information see: |
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Jeffrey P. Turko [AA Dipl RIBA II] is an American born architect registered in the Netherlands, educator and researcher currently based in London. He is founder of the design practice NEKTON Studio. A design studio that works on projects ranging in scales form urban design, private houses, to objects. NEKTON Studio's work has been published and exhibited widely and represented the UK in the Beijing Biennial 2008. Also in 2008 Nekton was in the running for the Young Architects of the Year Award in the UK. Jeffrey is a graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture where he received his diploma in 1999. He has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London from 2001 – 2011, as well as having taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture where he was unit master of Diploma Unit 12 from 2008 -2010. He is currently the Program Director of the AA Global Visiting School in Sydney Australia. In Summer 2011 Jeffrey accepted a full-time Senior Lecturer post at the University of Brighton where he is studio leader on the Masters of Architecture program. Before becoming a full member of OCEAN in 2007 he was an instrumental collaborator on projects such as Landsc[r]aper - Urban Ring Bridge and the World Centre for Human Concerns. Since joining he was involved in the Membrella project, a shortlisted proposal for a workspace of the future. Previously he has been the Vice Chair of the OCEAN Design and Research Association and currently he has taken on the role of Secretary of the Association. Recently he has been involved in the co-authoring the following essays and chapters on OCEAN in the following books: ‘OCEAN Design Research Association’ in Performalism [Routledge 2011] and Design Innovation for the Built Environment Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice [Routledge 2012]. Other recent publications and articles include ‘Relational Skins’ [LULU, 2009], 'Parallel Indexing - Infrastructure and Space' in Digital Cities AD [AD Wiley, London, 2009]. Contact: jeffturko(at)nekton.org For further information see: |
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