Talk by Wolf Mangelsdorf on Digital Rapid Prototyping and the BH Object Model
Time: Wednesday 17 April, 1:00 pm, hybrid – in the Conference room of the Faculty for Architecture and Planning of TU Wien – AFDG30 – as well as online
Abstract:
There is increasing demand for building performance to be more predictable beyond programmatic and aesthetic considerations. Bringing together multidisciplinary analytical modelling and simultaneously testing for several, often conflicting parameters, allows us to feed the consideration of performative aspects into the design process from the outset and make informed design choices based on integrated engineering analytics. We call this digital rapid prototyping. The talk will showcase this approach and discuss how we have developed this based on our unique solution to computational interoperability and collaboration.
Wolf Mangelsdorf is Professor of Structural Design at the University of Applied Arts/ Angewandte, Vienna. He studied architecture and civil engineering at Karlsruhe University, Germany, and Kyoto University, Japan. From 1997 to 2017, he worked in the UK, first with Anthony Hunt Associates in their Cirencester and London offices, and then with Buro Happold in London, where he became a partner in 2008. In 2017, he was transferred to Buro Happold’s New York office. Having led the structural engineering team in London and later structural engineering globally, he now has an executive role as Global Head of Design, Technology and Innovation.
