Research Meets the Industry 2 | ‘Water-filled Glass’
Moderator: Christian Louter
In this block full of inspiration, moderated by Prof. dr. ir. at the Structural Design & Building Engineering department at TU Delft Christian Louter, this sessions zooms in on 4 top level R&D developments where the academic experts and the industry leaders came perfectly together.
In 4 showcase projects, couples of an academic speaker and a industry speaker inspire you with their insights, gained within these research projects and tell you how these findings will evolve our Future Facades.
When it comes to innovation in facade design, these 4 projects will demonstrate how this future is getting shaped.
Project 2: ‘Water-filled Glass’ by Wicona in collaboration with Loughborough University.
Speaker project 2:
Matyas Gutai, Lecturer in Architecture and Construction Technology Loughborough University and Founder of Water-Filled Glass.
About Matyas Gutai
Matyas is an architect, academic, entrepreneur, and developer of Water-filled Glass (WFG) technology. He has an architecture and engineering background and graduated from Budapest Technical University (March) and the University of Tokyo (MEng and PhD). Matyas has international architecture experience and worked for offices in Japan (Shigeru Ban Architects, Arata Isozaki Architects), Portugal (Alvaro Siza), and Hungary (Zoboki Demeter Associates, Balazs Mihaly Architects, Puhl Antal Architects) before starting his PhD on WFG. After he defended his PhD in 2010, he has been researching the concept of WFG for over a decade. Since then, Matyas designed and built two prototype buildings with WFG technology (Water House 1.0 and Water House 2.0), conducted long-term monitoring on the buildings, and developed an energy model for WFG with Fazel. Matyas founded Water-filled Glass together with Fazel and Daniel and is currently focusing on the strategic development of the startup.
Speaker project 2:
Marco Theisinger, Project leader Special Projects Norsk Hydro – WICONA
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