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"The Future of Timber" - Rhino User Meeting at Blumer Lehmann
Gossau,
Switzerland
September 18-19, 2025
The Future of Timber – Rhino User Meeting 2025 is a two-day event hosted by
Blumer Lehmann in collaboration with McNeel Europe, bringing together leading
architects, engineers, digital fabricators and researchers to explore
cutting-edge developments in timber design, computational workflows and
fabrication innovation.
This event offers a platform for high-quality exchange across research,
education, industry and design practice – fostering conversations about
sustainability, advanced digital tools and the future of timber architecture.
Day 1 – Symposium
18 September 2025
Location: Blumer Lehmann
Headquarters, Gossau, Switzerland
Each session will feature international speakers from leading offices, research
institutes and fabrication labs, followed by open discussions and panels.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Patrick Lüth (Snøhetta): Spaces
for People: The Atmosphere of Timber
- Ursula Frick (Design-to-Production):
Grain Meets Algorithm: Designing Timber for Digital Fabrication
- Erik Zanetti (DDF/KIT):
Transforming Waste Wood: Digital Upcycling Strategies for Novel Building
Components
- Tiziano Derme (MAEID /
ETH Zurich): Frontiers of wood between
biotechnology and construction.
- Lauren Vasey (ETHZ): TBA
- Shajay Booshan (Zaha Hadid
Architects): TBA
- Marios Tsiliakos (Foster +
Partners): From Concept to Construction: Automation and Computational
Geometry in Practice
- Ljuba Tascheva and Matthew Tam (Bollinger
+ Grohmann): Learning from Complexity: Scaling Digital Workflows in
Timber Engineering
- Kenn Clausen (3XN): in(formed) design –
What is your starting point?
- Alexander Dubor (IAAC - Institute of
Advanced Architecture Catalonia): Robotic Wood Craft: a dialogue between
material and architecture mediated through technologies.
- Konstantinos Gavriil (SINTEF
Digital): Stackable rationalization and applications to robotic timber
manufacturing
- Joaquim Escoda Llorens (BFH - Berner
Fachhochschule): Modular Timber Architecture as a Product: Streamlining
Design-to-Production with Rhino.Compute
- Martin Alvarez (ICD
Stuttgart): Impact-driven Computation: the Universal Timber Slab project
- Martin Huber (Divario
Ukraine): Where hope grows among the ruins: Housing modules, oak trees
and the challenges of reconstruction in Ukraine.
- Preety Anand (BIG): "Raumfachwerk"
- Pierpaolo Ruttico and Ahmed Elmaraghy (Politecnico
di Milano): Prompt-to-Joint. From generative code to timber
construction, where design becomes assembly.
- Koki Akiyoshi (VUILD Inc.): TBA
Day 2 – Company visit & Project visit Chäserrugg
19 September 2025
On the second day, we invite you to get to know Blumer Lehmann better by taking
a tour of the company. You will gain exciting insights into our wood-related
activities, from the sawmill to Free Form production. Afterwards, we will take
you to the beautiful Toggenburg region, nestled between eastern Switzerland and
Lake Zurich. There, you will have the chance to visit the renowned Chäserrugg
summit restaurant, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. During a cosy lunch at high
altitude, there will be another chance to chat informally and exchange ideas.
Complete details and registration (early bird tickets until August 15)...
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