March

CARLOS BAUSA MARTINEZ

Specialist Modelling Group
Foster + Partners, London

LISA FINLAY

Heatherwick Studio, London

MATT KING

Founding Partner & Associate Director
T/E/S/S Atelier d’Ingénierie, Paris

Guest Moderator
Prof. Richard Coyne
[ESALA]

ECA WEST COURT

Carlos Bausa Martinez

Carlos Bausa Martinez

Carlos Bausa Martinez is an architect specialised in parametric design and digital fabrication and is currently working as Environmental Design Analyst at the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster and Partners. His works links solar analysis data, ray tracing techniques and complex geometry modelling through algorithmic optimisation processes, to achieve architectural solutions that improves and control natural daylight levels inside built environments. His skills were also valued by companies such as Newtecnic, facade consultants based in London working at the service of Zaha Hadid Architects.

Earlier he became Master in Advanced Architecture at the IAAC Barcelona (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), where he acted as a parametric design teacher. At the same time he also taught for the same school and the Institute of European Design. His professional expertise has been spread over different lectures and workshops between British and Spanish universities.

Amaravati assembly - Carlos Bausa Martinez
Project: Amaravati Assembly (India)

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Project: Amaravati Assembly (India)
Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/its-official-andhra-cabinet-finalises-tower-design-amaravati-assembly-73274

Lisa Finlay

Lisa Finlay

Group Leader, Heatherwick Studio

Lisa Finlay joined Heatherwick Studio in 2011. As Group Leader she is overseeing a series of projects including 1000 Trees, a 3 million sqft, mixed-use development next to Shanghai’s art district, the M50. The project includes retail, workspace, a hotel, parkland and the conservation of four historic buildings which have been integrated into the development. The first phase is under construction; due for completion in 2018.

Coal Drops Yard, a new retail quarter and public space in Kings Cross, London is also under Lisa’s supervision. She worked closely with the developer, heritage bodies and stakeholders to introduce a curving roof to stitch the historic coal drops buildings together – creating a third storey of retail and unifying heart to the site. The project is currently under construction and due for completion in 2018. Lisa founded 7N architecture practice in Edinburgh in 2009. Here she delivered two award winning projects in social housing and public realm, whilst leading large scale cultural-led regeneration projects for Scottish Enterprise, British Waterways and the Glasgow Canal Regeneration Partnership.

In 2015 the studio created the role of Group Leader to support the growth in scale and number of its projects. Working with Thomas Heatherwick, Group Leaders are responsible for leading all aspects of a portfolio of projects from concept development through to delivery. They are also part of the studio’s senior management group, guiding business strategy, planning and process.

Matt King

Matt King is associate director of T/E/S/S atelier d’ingénierie, which he co-founded in 2007 with Tom Gray and Bernard Vaudeville.

He qualified as an engineer from Leeds University, and is registered as a Chartered Engineer in the UK, where he is also a member of the Institute of Structural Engineers.
Matt KING was involved in many projects working for Ove Arup’s New York office, including the Kingdom Trade Center, a 300m-high tower in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Joining RFR in 2002, he headed the structural studies for Strasbourg station’s new glazed envelope.

Since co-founding T/E/S/S, Matt King has, among other projects, managed the design of the steel structure for the Tour Phare at La Défense. He is currently responsible for the technical studies for the project to enlarge Créteil Cathedral and for the Parc des Ateliers in Arles. Involved right from the initial sketches in the technical design of Frank Gehry’s forthcoming Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, he is managing the design team working on the huge glazed sails that envelope the building. Matt King won France’s acclaimed 2012 “Grand Prix National de l’Ingénierie” for his role in the technical design of the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Fondacion Louis Vuitton - Matt King