short vita

Christoph Gengnagel is professor for structural design and engineering at the School of Architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts. He studied structural engineering and architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Technical University Munich, where he earned his PhD in 2005. He is co-founder and director of the Hybrid Plattform – a transdisciplinary research unit between the UdK Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2013, he has been awarded the Velux Visiting Professorship at CITA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. His principal areas of research focus on physical and digital prototyping of new structural- and material systems, new concepts for computational design and simulation techniques and on the potential of transdisciplinary research methods. Christoph Gengnagel has more than 20 years of professional experience as structural engineer and was co-founder and partner of a.k.a.ingenieure. In 2013, he became partner at Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure.

Research focuses on computer-aided structural design and the development of novel material systems.

Events

Baukonstruktion I

Baukonstruktion II

Tragwerkslehre 1 - 2. Studienjahr

Tragwerkslehre 2 / Konstruktives Entwerfen

Tragwerkslehre 1 - 1. Studienjahr

Selected Publications

Gengnagel C., Nagy E., Stark R. Rethink! Prototyping, Transdisciplinary Concepts of Prototyping. Berlin: Springer, 2016.

Ramsgaard Thomsen M.(Ed.), Tamke M.(Ed), Gengnagel C.(Ed.), Faircloth B.(Ed.), Scheurer F.(Ed.). Modelling Behaviour, Proceedings of the Design Modeling Symposium Copenhagen 2015, Springer, 2015.

Gengnagel, C; Quinn, C. “Große Verformungen - Über das Entwerfen von vorbeanspruchten Gitterschalen“. In: GAM 12: Structural Affairs- Opportunities and Perspectives for Cooperation in Planning, Design and Construction, 169 – 189 (2016).

Quinn G., Holden Deleuran A., Piker D., Tamke M., Ramsgaard Thomsen M., Gengnagel C. “Calibrated and Interactive Modelling of Form-Active Hybrid Structures“, Conference: IASS Annual Symposium 2016 Spatial Structures in the 21st Century, Tokyo: 2016.

Gengnagel, C; Lafuente Hernández, E; Bäumer, R. “Natural-fibre-reinforced plastics in actively bent structures“.In:  Proceedings of the ICE - Construction Materials, 166:6, 365-377(2013).

Lienhard, J; Alpermann, H; Gengnagel, C; Knippers, J. “Active Bending, A Review on Structures where Bending is used as a Self-Formation Process“. In: International Journal of Space Structures, 28:3, 187-196, Multi Science Publishing (2013).

Lafuente Hernández, E; Baverel, O; Gengnagel, C. “On the Design and Construction of Elastic Gridshells with Irregular Meshes“. In: International Journal of Space Structures, 28:3, 161-174, Multi Science Publishing (2013).

Kotelnikova-Weiler, N.; Douthe, C.; Lafuente Hernandez, E.; Baverel, O.; Gengnagel, C.; Caron, J-F. “Materials for Actively-Bent Structures“. In: International Journal of Space Structures, 28;3, 229-240, Multi Science Publishing (2013).

Alpermann H; Gengnagel C. “Membranversteifte Bogentragwerke“. In: STAHLBAU, 8/2009, 531 – 536. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 2009.

Elsheikh A; Gengnagel C. “Structural Assessment of Rapid Deployment Canopy Structure“. In Advances in Structural Engineering, 9:2, 241-256, Multi-Science Publishing (2006).

Burford N.K., Gengnagel C., Smith F.W. „Zugversteifte Bogentragwerke“. In: STAHLBAU, 8/2006, 633-642.  Berlin: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, 2006.

Selected Funded Projects

2016–2018 FibreCast, DFG

2012–2017 Complex Modelling in Archtectural Design, The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF)

2012–2016 PhD School “Knowledge of the Arts”, DFG

2012–2015 Rethinking Prototyping, Einstein Stiftung Berlin, Germany

2010–2013 Digital Processing for Academics, The European Socian Fund in Germany

2011–2015  Hybrid Plattform, TU Berlin and UdK Berlin European Regional Development Fund

2010–2011 Biocomposites For Construction Elements, Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR)

Design Modelling Symposium, Autodesk GmbH,  CADFEM, SOFISTIK, FARO

Pyrolysis for Construction Elements – PyroForCE, Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR), Laufzeit ein Jahr

2010-2013 DIGI-PRO, „Digital Processing for Academics”, Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF)