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Fabio Gramazio
Matthias Kohler
Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström
Adam Anouar
Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska
Inés Ariza
Oliver Bucklin
Gonzalo Casas
Kunaljit Chadha
Carlotta Daro
Tanja de Almeida Pereira
Selen Ercan Jenny
Jonas Furrer
Alessandra Gabaglio
Aurèle L. Gheyselinck
Jonas Haldemann
Halima Hassan
Matthias Helmreich
Ananya Kango
Chen Kasirer
Joseph Kenny
Jesús Medina Ibáñez
Francesco Milano
Alexandra Moisi
Sarah Schneider
Fabio Scotto
Gereon Siévi
Eliott Sounigo
Aikaterini Toumpektsi
Ping-Hsun Tsai
Lauren Vasey
Yiwen Wang
Achilleas Xydis
Rafael Pastrana is a computational designer and structural engineer from Mexico. Data-driven processes that explore the creation of structural form and the generation of optimized material distributions lie at the core of his work. Rafael received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with honors from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 2013. He was a visiting student at the National University of Singapore, where he focused on the structural evaluation of high-rise housing typologies. After being awarded a CONACYT-Alianza FiiDEM Scholarship from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology, Rafael went on to complete a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the ETH Zürich in 2018.
In the professional domain, Rafael worked between 2014 and 2017 at Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure as a member of the performative building group in Frankfurt, Germany. There he dealt with the structural analysis, form-finding and geometrical optimization of high-profile architectural projects. Furthermore, Rafael has imparted workshops on structures and parametric engineering at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) and the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Since November 2018, Rafael joined Gramazio Kohler Research where he investigates on the applicability of machine-learning techniques to robotic timber construction, in collaboration with Autodesk.
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