Prof. Dr. Joerg Baumeister
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joerg Baumeister is leading the SeaCities Lab (SeaCities.org) at the Cities Research Institute, Griffith University in Australia which develops and implements water-adapted cities (aquacities) and floating structures (aquatecture). Its holistic research approach - that spans and includes the disciplines of engineering, architecture and environmental sciences - enables researches in the group to develop new approaches to building with and for nature, to create ecosystem-based developments that respond to the current challenges in an adaptive and compatible fashion.
Joerg has been a practitioner, educator, and researcher for Architecture and Urban Design for more than 20 years throughout Europe, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia, and Australia. He is an award-winning architect and consults governmental institutions on the federal, state and regional level as well as NGOs and private industry leaders to apply his current research interests which comprise Ecological Cities, Affordable Housing in serial building technology, and Marine Design Innovation.
Dr. Markus Ahola
Experience Design for Living with Water
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Dr Markus Ahola’s interest area is user-centred design and designing for experiences. He has been applying these approaches to multiple applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, safety and ship design. He is an expert in multidisciplinary research project building and had a key role in the establishment of the Experience Research Society, Aalto Experience Platform and Aalto Cruise & Ferry Experience Program. He is an executive committee member and secretary of Experience Research Society and board member of SIGCHI Finland. Currently, he works in improving the accessibility and experience design of Magnetic Resonance Imaging technology.
Assoc. Prof. Mohd Faris Khamidi
Dr. Faris is currently an Associate Professor in Architecture at Qatar University. He holds a PhD from Kyushu University, Japan in the field of ArchitecturalEngineering (2005) and completed a graduate certificatein Tertiary Education Management from LH MartinInstitute, University of Melbourne (2016). He has morethan 20 years experiences in applying sustainabilityconcept and principles to optimize building performance based on climatic condition as wellas enhancing buildinglifecycle in particular reducing carbon footprint.
Since 2012, Faris has started developed his capability andcompetencies in Building Information Modelling (BIM) andVirtual and Digital Construction (VDC) with the emphasison SMART Technologies. He is a Revit (BIM) certifiedprofessional by Autodesk in 2013. Faris was also thefounding member and Deputy Director of Taiwan-MalaysiaConstruction Project Management and DigitalTechnologies International Centre [DiTIC] with TamkangUniversity from January 2018 – August 2019. Based onhis expertise, he has been invited in various conferencesand event as keynoteand plenary speaker and VisitingProfessor in Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Taiwan, China,UK, Norway and of course Malaysia.
On the research front, Faris has concluded a dozen ofresearch projects amountingUSD 1.1 million, notably theUSD750,000 MyRA Top Down Incentive Grant (MalaysiaMinistry of Higher Education), titled ‘Smart Integrated LowCarbon Infrastructure Model’ (SMART i-LOCI MODEL)from August 2013 to July 2015 as Co – Lead PrincipalInvestigator.
Prof. Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Suárez
"Water, Global Warming and Resiliency:
another hurricane season in the Caribbean"
University of Illinois School of Architecture
Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, FAIA is the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studied architecture at Georgia Tech, the Université de Paris-Tolbiac and Harvard GSD, where he earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction winning the AIA Medal and the Portfolio Award.
After working for Machado-Silvetti in Boston, Rodríguez-Suárez returned to his hometown to work on a renovation of its historic district. For two decades, he taught at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, where he served as Dean for nine years. At UPR, Francisco directed (in)forma, an award-winning academic journal and edited five books including Alma Mater, Aula Magna, Chronologies of an Architectural Pedagogy and Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico 1992-2010, a joint effort with the AIA.
During his academic career, Rodríguez-Suárez has taught and lectured at prestigious universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, the US, Canada, the Middle East and the Caribbean, including a sojourn as Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright Fellowship in Spain.
His comprehensive practice has earned over 10 AIA-PR Awards and Citations, several Bienal awards in seven different categories and has been widely published and exhibited around the world. Mr. Rodríguez-Suárez was selected by El Nuevo Día newspaper as one of the ten most influential pioneers in Puerto Rico for the year 2008, when he collaborated with artist Ai Wei Wei on the Ordos 100 project in China.
In 2017 he was elected President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), an organization that had previously recognized him as Distinguished Professor. As ACSA president he lobbied for architecture to be included as a STEM discipline, condemned the construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico and organized an international congress in Madrid to discuss the future of architectural pedagogy. In 2020 he was elected Chairman of the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors.
A committed urbanist, Francisco enjoys writing poetry, experimenting in the kitchen and is currently working on a historical novel.
Prof. Arch. Claudio Gambardella
This is not a ... floating building, but a yacht.
Reflections and Symbols about dwelling on water
Claudio Gambardella, architect and designer,
is Professor of Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI) of the
Campania University "Luigi Vanvitelli" (SUN) and he passed a public competition for recruitment as FULL professor (February 2021). He is delegate of the Director for the Internationalization Policies of the Department.
He is currently working on two main research branches: the first one concerns a new concept of company museums, that he has been studying for years, to create a distinctive identity that differentiates them from other types of museums. On this topic he directed a series of publications for publishing company Alinea, being the author of the first publication entitled “IL SISTEMA MUSEALE REGIONALE DEL DESIGN E DELLE ARTI APPLICATE” (2005, English version: “OFFICIAMUSEUM. THE REGIONAL MUSEUM SYSTEM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ARTS”, 2008). From 2016 he has been directing the series “THE 3RD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. Futuro e memoria del Design”, for publishing company Altralinea. He is scientific advisor and artistic director for the project “Temporary Museum of Enterprise” product of excellence in Campania, under construction in Pompeii, under an agreement between the city of Pompeii and SUN. Moreover, he has been project coordinator of "Summer School in designing of company museum systems in Euro-Mediterranean area" of SUN in collaboration with OKAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ of Istanbul and FACHHOCHSCHULE KÖLN approved in 2013 from INDIRE/MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research).
The second research branch he is focusing on is about the preservation and enhancement of those forms of design that are capable of connecting with local craftsmanship, thus developing what Gambardella calls “Handmade in Italy”, i.e. a kind of design that is strongly linked to local diversity over the country, competing with the more globalized “Made in Italy”. In this regard, he is national Coordinator of the Thematic ADI Commission called HANDMADE IN ITALY from 2017.
He is part of the Academic Board of the PhD programme in “Architectural and Urban Design and Architectural Restoration” of SUN as well as the Academic Board of the International Doctorate in “Philosophy of Interior Architecture” of the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Moreover, he is one of the members of MUSA Scientific Committee (University's Museum of Sciences and
Arts) of SUN. He curated the Materials Library project for SUN, first ever in Southern Italy, in collaboration with Material Connexion Italia. He was also curator of the 2013 and 2016 editions of the DADI/SUN booth at SALONE SATELLITE, a section of the SALONE DEL MOBILE dedicated to young talents and universities, both Italian and foreign, in Rho-Fiera, Milan.
He has been the Chairman of Board Master's Degree (Aggregated Study Course in IT/EN) in Architecture: Interior Design and for Autonomy from October 2013 to 2016; currently scientific director, managing relationships with Okan University (Istanbul), East China Normal University (Shanghai), and Epoka University (Tirana). He is also the responsible for ERASMUS relations with Ozyegin University of Istanbul, Çankaya of
Ankara, École nationale supérieure d'architecture of Saint-Étienne, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has been one of the three congress chairs of BEYOND ALL LIMITS, a congress on sustainability held at Cankaya University, in Ankara (TR) in October 2018.
He is member of the Scientific Committee of IEREK - International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange, based in Egypt, and member of Collegium "Scriptorium Fontis Avellanae".
He is President of I LOVE POMPEI, a non-profit association to promote Architecture, Design and Conserving Cultural Objects; a successful exhibition he curated in 2002 at Villa Pignatelli Museum in Naples was named after the association.
He was the president of ADI - Association for Industrial Design Campania Delegation from 2004 to 2011.
He also designs, creates and curates design exhibitions. From 2008 to 2010, he was artistic director of the
Trends/Design section of the Ravello Festival. Within this section, he conceived and curated the exhibitions “Shoes on exhibit: the treasures of the Ferragamo Museum”, “The Richard Ginori Museum: a new lease on life” and “ZERODISEGNO: madness is freedom” set up respectively in 2008, in 2009 and 2010. In 2011, he curated the exhibition “more craft, more design. Annibale Oste|Studio Azzurro”.
His design objects and architectural projects have been exhibited and published in Italy and abroad. He also worked for several years as an editor for specialized magazines such as DOMUS, INTERNI, MODO, SPAZIO& SOCIETA’.
Prof. Dr. Masi Mohammadi
“Towards an Understanding Architecture: evolution of architecture through the embedding of emerging Technologies”
Masi Mohammadi is the Leading Professor at the academy of Built Environment, HAN University of
applied sciences, where she heads the research group Architecture in Health and a Full Professor of
Smart Architectural Technologies at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
As the principal investigator and leader of the research program ‘Empathic Living Environment’, an
interdisciplinary study into the socio-spatial context of smart living, Mohammadi aims to develop a
people-led framework for embedding emerging technologies in architecture. To arrive at this
framework, she, in collaboration with industry and Dutch housing and care organizations, set up a
nationwide platform, ‘Dutch Empathic Living Labs’, to empirically evaluate smart homes and
neighbourhoods and their impact on the well-being of users. She currently supervises 17 PhD
dissertations on this subject.
Masi has served as chair or board member of various (inter)national committees and research
networks, i.a. a board member of a European committee on ‘Active Ageing &Design’, member of the
Board Science, Technology and Society of The Royal Institution of Engineers, and as visiting
Professor at University of Technology Sydney (2017).
Prof. Changho Moon
Design Proposals of Modular Floating Parking Building for Archipelago
Changho Moon, born in 1955, has been a professor since 1989 and is going to retire at the end of August 2021 in the department of architecture and building engineering, Kunsan National University, Korea. Also he was a principal investigator of Floating Architecture Research Group, funded by the ministry of land, infrastructure and transport, Korean Government. Research period was about 5 years from December 2010. Around 15 professors from 3 Universities and 12 industries participated in the research. He wrote books “Floating Architecture as a New Building Paradigm” in 2015, and "Floating Architecture as a Sustainable Building” in 2021.
He has consulted several floating building projects for local waterside developments, continued to research floating structures with industries, and taught floating architectures such as public floating information center, floating parking building for islands, floating guest house as term projects in the University.
Prof. Dr. Gökdeniz Neşer
Prof. Neser from Dokuz Eylul University Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology’s
Marine Technology Department is a naval architect graduated from Istanbul Technical
University. He has carried on several research studies in the field of advanced polymer
composites in marine use including their
degradation and recycling, and Life Cycle
Assessment. Neser has published researches on
the marine pollution issues, e.g. environmental and
occupational impacts of global ship recycling
industry, environmental management of dredging,
shipyards and ship repair facilities’ effects on the
environment, oil pollution prevention funded by EU,
UN, and national agencies. He has been in Japan,
USA, United Kingdom, and Poland as visiting
professor and research fellow. Neser also served
as a board member of Water Supply and Treatment
Directorate in local level and the director of DEU’s
Boatbuilding Research Centre.
In his speech, Neser will talk about marine
environmental degradation on the materials with a
case of sailcloth. According to Neser, “Structural
elements of built environments located in, along,
close to marine environment are often
compromised in their usage by the uncertainty of material behavior under cyclic and
impact loading and various environmental factors, e.g. exposure to seawater, water
vapor, UV, change in extreme temperature and long-term physical and chemical
stability mainly due to the climate change, attacks of marine organism. Since reliable
theory and experimental data are practically nonexistent, properties of materials of
these structural elements are severely penalized by the use of unusually large margins
of safety in actual design, if the designers have an awareness on their degradations.
Until the degradation of these structural elements by various environmental factors is
better understood so that corrective measures can be taken, the true potential of such
materials cannot be realized. In the study, attention has been primarily focused only on
these environmental factors and failure mechanism that caused by these factors which
influence the end use of the related structural elements in a range of marine structures,
from boats to wind turbines, cars and elements of buildings.”
Effects of Marine Environment
on the Performance of Structural Elements
