Typical threats for innovation in Facade design | moderated by Christian Louter, prof. dr. ir. at TU Delft | How to overcome existing hurdles
The last few years, lot’s of research has been conducted, and many innovations did appear in the facade industry. But still we see a lot of traditional facades in the build environment and it continues to seem very hard to get things scalable. Is there a gap between what regulations do allow us to build, and what designers wants to implement into their designs? And how can we overcome challenges for clients when it comes to sustainability or low carbon designing? What are the typical threats for implementing new techniques, and make more adaptive and sustainable facades? During this panel discussion, different experts in facade design and engineering will discuss the biggest hurdles, and give strong examples in how to overcome these in future projects.
Host
Christian Louter
Speaker 1
Leonie van Ginkel
Frontwise Facades
Leonie van Ginkel is co-owner of Frontwise Facades in the Netherlands. As an advisor, she has a passion for the technical design of facades. In her job, she combines architecture, structural design and building physics throughout different stages in designing a building and a building envelop. Leonie has a degree in architecture and buildingtechnologie in TU Delft with facades as specialism. Her strong interest in new products and techniques started to grow during her internship at Permasteelisa and grew even more during her time at Hunter Douglas.
After this, she joined ARUP in New York and Amsterdam, where she specialized in advance facade techniques and sustainability. Leonie is very experienced in complexe facade projects and has a strong vision in how to incorporate innovative solutions in to facade designs.
Speaker 2
Gijs Rikken
Senior Partner MVRDV
Gijs Rikken (1980, Boxtel, The Netherlands) is an architect and Associate Design Director at MVRDV since 2007. At MVRDV, Gijs is responsible for the design and execution of a wide variety of projects, ranging from large-scale, complex buildings to detailed innovative material research.
“At MVRDV, we continuously push the envelope. As architects, we have an obligation to try to change the world into something better. Something greener, more social, more mixed, more accessible, more wonderful.”
Key projects include such completed buildings as the Glass Farm in Schijndel, The Crystal Houses in Amsterdam and the Balancing Barn in Suffolk, England. Other defining works consist of the winning design for the Urban Hybrid in Emmen, the Coral Tower in Sydney and the Theater aan de Parade in Den Bosch. He is currently responsible for the development and construction of Valley, a 75,000m2 mixed-use building in Amsterdam which boasts three residential, green-covered towers and a publicly accessible, vertical park
Speaker 3
Paul Rouven-Denz
At Priedemann Facade Experts, Paul-Rouven Denz set up the research and development department from 2014 with a focus on new facade technologies, materials, systems and planning processes. Since January 2022, Denz has been Head of Projects and authorized signatory for the overall operational business of Priedemann Fassadenberatung GmbH and Facade-Lab GmbH, including R&D.
Paul-Rouven Denz studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart and the E.T.S.A. Madrid with a focus on “resource-efficient building construction” and “building construction”. Mr. Denz has gained extensive experience in flagship and research projects on the subject of sustainability in Germany and abroad and has successfully participated in architecture and innovation competitions. Denz has worked at Foster & Partners (London), Werner Sobek (Stuttgart), Fraunhofer IAO Stuttgart), IBK2 (University of Stuttgart), Gutierrezdela Fuente Arquitectos (Madrid) and ATOL Architects (Shanghai), among others.
Since 2017, Denz has also been a doctoral student at the TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, and is investigating “Smart Textile Skins” for material and energy-efficient building envelopes.
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