Designing for the future | by Jette Hopp, director Snøhetta

Speaker: Jette Hopp

In this keynote lecture, Jette Hopp (architect and director of acquisition and international projects) will share the vision of Norwegians leading architectural firm Snøhetta on designing our future facades. How does climate change effects the building envelop in the future and how can we embrace innovation even more in a changing world. Technology is getting smarter, but the need of taking care of our environment is growing day by day. Jette will share how these two developments can go hand in hand during this keynote guest lecture.

About Jette Hopp
Growing up multilingual with Norwegian, German and Danish, Jette Cathrin Hopp is a graduate architect and is the director with responsibility for acquisition and new projects. Jette is part of the executive management of Snøhetta. She has extensive experience in complex both Norwegian and international projects, leading major international project developments and competitions. She regularly lectures at architectural symposia, conferences and international institutions, sharing Snøhetta´s philosophy and design ideas and she is also a jury member for several architecture competitions and prizes. Jette is also regularly invited as critic to international architecture universities. Examples of her experience are her role as team leader for the museum in the King Abdul Aziz Center for Knowledge and Culture, Dharhan in Saudi Arabia and as project leader for a large hotel and resort development of Hvar in Croatia. She has led major international developments with focus on sustainability as Astana Expo 2017 ” Future Energy “, Kazakhstan and Lingkong Soho Shanghai, China, in Norway innovative environmental projects in Norway as Powerhouse One in Trondheim and Powerhouse Kjørbo concept phase in Sandvika which is the world first rehabilitated energy-positive building.

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