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Lecturer
ENAC
ENAC-SGC
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Hans Ulrich Buri
Chair of Timber Construction
architect EPFL, FAS, Dr ès science
birth date: 27.05.1963
nationality: Suisse

office(s): GCH2711
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32396
MISSION
RESEARCH
Origami – folded plate structures

TEACHING
Architecture studio, Atelier Weinand
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2010 Phd Thesis, Origami - folded plate structures
2004 Project coordination for sustainable building, HES, Geneva
1991 Master of architecture, EPFL, Lausanne
1984 Matura, Freies Gymnasium, Bern

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
since 2008 Co-founder and partner of Shel, Hani Buri, Yves Weinand, Architecture, Engineering and Production Design
since 2005 Scientific collaborator, laboratory for timber constructions, IBOIS, EPFL
1993-2005 Co-founder and partner of BMV architectes, Hani Buri, Olivier Morand, Nicolas Vaucher, architectes EPFL
1991-1993 Independent architect

TEACHING
2006 Course instructor, timber construction course for architects and engineers, EPFL
since 2006 Assistant, Atelier Weinand, EPFL
1994-1998 Assistant, Professor P. von Meiss, EPFL
since 1993 Visiting critic, and lectures in different architecture classes, EPFL, EPFZ, ESBA, IAUG
1993 Assistant, visiting professors D. Marques and B. Zurkirchen, EPFL
1993 Assistant, visiting professor E. Souto de Moura, EPFL
1992 Assistant, visiting professor M. Dominguez, EPFL

MISCELLANEOUS
Languages German: native language
French: spoken and written
English: spoken and written
Fédération des Architectes Suisse, FAS, member of the committee, section Geneva
Fédération des associations d'architectes et d'ingénieurs de genève, fai, member of the committee
Schweizerische Arbeitsgmeinschaft für Holzforschung, SAH, member of the committee
MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers

2010

H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
Origami aus Brettsperrholz
DETAIL Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, Vol. Serie 2010, Nr. 10, pp. 1066-1068, 2010.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
Origami - Faltwerke
Zuschnitt, Nr. 38, pp. 20, 2010.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2009

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
Gefaltet
TEC21, Nr. 8, pp. 18-22, 2009.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2008

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
Die provisorische Kapelle von St. Loup
Bulletin Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Holzforschung SAH, Nr. 2, pp. 16-20, 2008.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2006

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
Origami: Faltstrukturen aus Holzwerkstoffen
Bulletin Holzforschung Schweiz, Nr. 2, pp. 8-12, 2006.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Conference Papers

2011

H.U. Buri, I. Stotz and Y. Weinand
Curved Folded Plate Timber Structures
IABSE-IASS 2011 London Symposium, Vol. CD-ROM, 2011.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2010

P.J.S. Cruz, H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
Origami - geometry of folded plate structures
Structures and Architecture , Vol. CD, 2010.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2008

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
ORIGAMI - Folded Plate Structures, Architecture
10th WCTE, 2008.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2007

Y. Weinand, H. Buri and I. Stotz
Zukunftsperspektiven aus der Forschung
Praktische Anwendung von Massivholzplatten, pp. 255-266, 2007.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
Uebersicht Massivholzplatten
Praktische Anwendung von Massivholzplatten, pp. 63-84, 2007.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

2006

H. Buri and Y. Weinand
BSP Visionen - Faltwerkkonstruktionen aus BSP-Elementen
, 2006.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Ph.D. Theses

2010

H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
Origami - Folded Plate Structures
Ph.D. Thesis, 2010.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Book Chapters

2011

H. Kaufmann, W. Nerdinger, H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
The Tectonics of Timber Architecture in the Digital Age
in Building with Timber Paths into the Future, Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag, 2011.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

H. Kaufmann, W. Nerdinger, H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
Die Tektonik der Holzarchitektur im digitalen Zeitalter
in Bauen mit Holz. Wege in die Zukunft, Munich : Prestel Verlag, 2011.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Technical Reports

2007

H.U. Buri, M. Haasis and Y. Weinand
Origami-Faltwerke aus Holzwerkstoffplatten
Technical Report, 2007.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Presentations

2009

H.U. Buri and Y. Weinand
Geometrie von Faltwerken - die Kapelle von St. Loup
2009.
detailed record ] [ full document ] [ bibtex ]

Teaching
Civil Engineering


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