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Performance-Based
Façade Design
Speakers
Aulikki Sonntag - Chief Business Development Officer, Staticus
With an international background, Aulikki Sonntag’s professional experience reaches from technical design to executive façade work throughout all project planning phases. She has successfully executed a large variety of façade systems, ranging from high-rise unitized to complex custom design. Pursuing innovative design solutions and high efficiency in performance characterizes her holistic approach to the building envelope. Aulikki Sonntag is working out of Basel-based STATICUS Switzerland Ltd. Her focus is the design and development of project and climate specific facades, using an Interactive Building Process, interfacing Architecture, Energy Design, and Structural Engineering.
Martino Milardi - Scientific Director, TCLab Envelope Testing_Building Future Lab
Martino Milardi, Architect and PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Territory, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria. He carries out research and teaching activities in the field of Architectural Technology disciplines. He is the Scientific Director of “TCLab Envelope Testing”, an operative section of the Building Future Lab, a Research Laboratory that develops its activities through advanced Testing on envelopes, operating in the field of experimentation and certification of performance standards concerning in particular climatic stresses and extreme events on components and façades.
Alessandra Luna Navarro - Assistant Professor, TU Delft
Alessandra is Assistant Professor in Façade Design and Engineering at TU Delft and co-founder at Building Impulse. She has been Visiting Scholar at CBE at UC Berkeley in 2024. Her research revolves around human-building interaction, in particular on human-façade interaction. She is a chartered engineer in Italy and the UK and she has been working on different façades, from modern flagship buildings such as “La Nuvola” (Rome) to the refurbishment of historical buildings. She has a Masters’ degree in Building Engineering and Architecture from La Sapienza University of Rome and a MPhil in Energy Technologies from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge and her research was awarded with the Future Cities Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and funded by Arup, Permasteelisa and EPSRC.
Alessandro Gambale - CEO, BuildWind
Alessandro Gambale holds a Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from "La Sapienza" University, Rome (Italy). He worked as a research engineer for the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium), where he was involved in applied research projects dealing with microfluidics and environmental fluid dynamics. He later became a research and teaching assistant at UMONS University (Belgium), where he investigated advanced combustion techniques within a research program of the International Energy Agency. He co-founded BuildWind in 2018.
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