Sustainable Design Academy

Diego Apellániz is an Associate Director at kevee in Berlin and has developed numerous leading tools for the Rhino3D ecosystem including PUG for Machine Learning in Grasshopper3D with TensorFlow and the One Click LCA Grasshopper3D plugin. His main research interests are computer-aided structural design and the application possibilities of AI and machine learning in architecture. Diego Apellániz studied civil engineering at the Politéncnica University in Madrid. After graduating, he worked for three years at the engineering office Fhecor Ingenieros Consultores and since 2017 he has been working as a structural engineer and consultant for computer-aided design at Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure. He has participated in numerous demanding projects in collaboration with firms of world-famous architects such as Sir Norman Foster and Solano Benítez. In Berlin he worked on the revitalization of the Steglitzer Kreisel skyscraper. In 2018 he won the AEC Berlin Hackathon.

Matthew Tam is a computational designer based in Vienna, having studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, SCI Arc and University of Melbourne. He is core to the Karamba3D team, regularly holding workshops at conferences and institutions such as DigitalFUTURES, CAADRIA, AAG, Design Modeling Symposium, Smart Geometry and McNeel. Matthew works leads the Advanced Geometry department in Bollinger+Grohmann Vienna working at the interface of architectural, structural and computational design.