Facade World – The Hub for Facade Construction and Innovation
Facade World is your go-to platform for everything façade. We’re not here to engineer buildings – we’re here to connect the people who imagine, design, and rethink them. Born from project experience, hands-on teaching, prototyping, and real-world exploration, we share knowledge, showcase innovation, and spark collaboration across the global facade community. Whether you’re curious, creative, or just facade-obsessed – welcome to the hub.
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Marcel Bilow is educated as an architect and did a Ph.D. about climate-related facades at TU Delft / Faculty of Architecture. He now works at TU Delft in research and education and is known as Dr. Bucky Lab the head of the faculties mobile prototyping workshop seminar.
Ulrich Knaack finished his architecture study and Ph.D. in the area of structural glass in Aachen, worked as an architect and now holds the facade-technology chairs at TU Darmstadt / Germany and TU Delft / the Netherlands.
Alexander Wolf is group leader of the Generative Design Lab, a research unit situated at the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design. His experience in CAD, BIM and Generative Design led him to write a PhD thesis on applied additively manufactured ceramics at TU Darmstadt’s faculty of civil engineering, as well as the University of Minho in Guimaraes, Portugal. Besides that, he investigated the topic of paper as a building material throughout multiple research projects. Being a registered architect in Germany, Alex is also active in smaller residential building projects together with his wife at their office studio5a.
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