Born in 1951 in Amersfoort Kas Oosterhuis studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. In 1987-1988 he taught as unit master at the AA in London and worked/lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. Their design studio is in 2004 renamed into ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]. As from 2007 Oosterhuis is a registered architect in Hungary, executing as General Designer the CET project. Since 2000, Oosterhuis has been appointed professor of digital design methods at the Delft University of Technology and he is currently leading a staff of twenty researchers at Hyperbody, the knowledge centre for Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture. Oosterhuis is Director of the ProtoSpace Laboratory in the iWEB pavilion, located in front of the Faculty of Architecture. He is member of the Dutch Building Information Council and has been a Member of the Board of Witte de With Center of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and of the VCA (Computerusers Architectural Offices) until 1989. He has been the co-founder of the Attila Foundation, responsible for the groundbreaking Sculpture City event in 1994 and the ParaSite weblounge in 1996. He has lectured worldwide at numerous universities, academies and international conferences since 1990. Oosterhuis has initiated two GameSetandMatch (GSM) conferences at the Delft University of Technology on the subjects’ multiplayer game design, file to factory design and build methods and open source communication in the evolutionary development of the 3D reference model. Award winning building designs include the Saltwaterpavilion at Neeltje Jans (Gold Award 1997 for innovative recreational projects, Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs 1998, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 1998), the Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/Vloedbelt in Zenderen (Business Week/Architectural Record Award 1998, OCE-BNA Award for Industrial Architecture 1996, Aluminium Design Award 1997) and the Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier in Utrecht (National Steel Award 2006, Glass Award 2006, Dutch Design Award for Public Space 2006, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2008, nomination Golden Pyramid 2006).

Hans Hubers is an associate professor, building engineer. He specializes in Sustainability, BIM, CAD and multi-media. Prior to joining the Hyperbody, he was managing director at Hubers Multimedia Delft and before that he was managing the Union of Computer Using Architects with 200 of the largest architectural offices in the Netherlands. His PhD dissertation is called Collaborative Architectural Design in Virtual Reality. He has become a specialist in programming real-time 3D design envi-ronments with database connections over the Internet.

Dr. Nimish Biloria is an Architect and an Assistant Professor at Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands. After being involved with investigating the inter-relation of Media and Architecture throughout his formative educational years at CEPT, Ahmadabad, India, he furthered his interests in the inter-disciplinary realm at the Architectural Association, London, UK, where he specialized in the field of Emergent Technologies and Design. He further attained a Doctorate at the TU Delft, Netherlands, with a focus on developing real time adaptive environments. He continues experimenting with the idea of formulating intelligence aided relational networks for the generation of performative morphologies.

Dr. Biloria apart from his teaching initiatives at Hyperbody is also the Research Manager of Hyperbody and is involved with developing computationally enhanced performative & sustainable architectural and urban design solutions. He has conducted various seminars for the same and is a proponent of systemic design and bio-inspired performative design solutions. He, as a part of such research and design investigations specifically seeks a synergistic merger of the fields of computation, material systems, sensing technologies, environmental dynamics and social demographics. Dr. Biloria has lectured at prestigious institutes globally.  He has also presented and published his research and design deductions in numerous international design conferences and magazines and has been a proponent for exchanging design-informatics oriented knowledge globally.

After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught computer-based architectural design (2002-2003) at universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. Since 2004 she teaches and researches at TU Delft; her research focuses not only on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture, but also reflects evaluation and classification of digitally-driven architecture through procedural and object-oriented studies. It defines methodologies of digital design, which incorporate Intelligent Computer-based Systems to not only support the design process but also actuate architecture. She initiated and coordinated (2005-07) the workshop and lecture series on Digital Design and Fabrication within DSD (Delft School for Design) with invited guests from MIT and ETHZ and finalized (2008) her PhD; results of her research have been published in books, journals and conference proceedings. She regularly lectures in Europe and US as well as leads EU-funded pro-jects within Hyperbody and Border Conditions at TU Delft.

Chris Kievid is a researcher at Hyperbody, a contemporary information technology driven research and design group at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Delft. He graduated cum laude in architecture at the TU Delft in 2006. His thesis received a nomination for the Dutch Archiprix 2007. As freelance architect and interaction designer he has worked for the multidisciplinary design office ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] on a variety of innovative projects. As researcher and project manager at Hyperbody he has been responsible for the development of the design environment for immediate design and engineering: protoSPACE, the project iLite for the traveling road show Philips Transitions II and the InteractiveWall installation for the Hannover Messe. As coordinator and tutor he is involved the Hyperbody educational MSc 2 and minor program.

Christian Friedrich was born in Germany. After studying Physics and Philosophy in Berlin and completing an architectural engineering degree at Hanzehogeschool Groningen, he finished his graduate education (MSc) in architecture at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is the co-founder of the media artist collective Ezthetics. He has been associated with Hyperbody for four years, as student assistant, master student and researcher. His work with the HRG includes teaching Virtools courses, conference lectures and developing the protoSPACE group design environment. During the last four years, he was involved in several projects of the architectural office of Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lenard, ONL. He is currently developing his PhD research project in which he intends to describe and actualize the architectural singularity: a point at which the architectural process loop is executed in real-time and shifts from a phased process into a behavioral network, in effect reshaping architectural praxis.

Tomasz Jaskiewicz is an architect, urban designer, academic researcher and educator.

After finishing his undergraduate studies in Architecture and Urban Planning at TU Gdansk in Poland, he joined the Hyperbody group at TU Delft in the Netherlands. There, in 2005, he obtained his Master of Science degree in Architecture, with a thesis on a real-time participatory urban planning toolkit “Paracity” and he worked as leading researcher on a series of “Protospace Demo” projects, investigating novel applications of computational techniques and interfaces to participatory and collaborative architectural and urban design. In following years he joined the architecture firm ONL[Oosterhuis_Lénárd] where he worked as architect and project manager, bringing much of his earlier studies to practice. In 2007 he has started his PhD research at TU Delft, in which, supervised by prof. Kas Oosterhuis, he focuses on the application of multi-agent models to creation of evolving interactive architectural ecosystems. Next to his research, he also works as an academic teacher, most recently having initiated and coordinated the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor programme “Interactive Environments”.

In all his projects, Tomasz transgresses the boundaries between conventionally established disciplines and practices. He explores new paths leading towards creation of architecture becoming a complex adaptive system. In this way, he aspires to produce artificial spatial ecologies operating in a pro-active symbiosis with their human inhabitants and with the natural environment.

Jelle Feringa is currently writing a PhD thesis, titled Design-by-Simulation, exploring the potential of simulation for architectural conception, at the Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft. Jelle has taught and lectured at the ESA, Paris-Malaquias, ETH, and TU Delft. He is a founding partner in EZCT Architecture & Design Research. Projects have been exhibited at the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2004), Archilab (Orléans, 2004), Barbican Gallery ( London, 2006 ), Design Miami/Basel (Miami, 2007), Pompidou Center (Paris, 2007), Maison Rouge (Paris, 2007), Architectural Association (London, 2007), ScriptedByPurpose (Philadelphia, 2007) International Biennial of Sevilla (Sevilla, 2008), Vivid design gallery (Rotterdam, 2009). Early research results have recently been exhibited at the transNatural (Amsterdam, 2010) exposition. The work of EZCT is part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou Center and the FRAC Orléans collection. In 2007 the office won the Seroussi Pavilion.
Jelle’s work is focused on the close coupling of advanced simulation methods with evolutionary computing methods. His academic research work is focused on the development of generative design representations. For his research work, Jelle relies on Open Source software. Working together Thomas Paviot, Jelle has been driving the development of an open source CAD framework, PythonOCC a CAD/CAE/PLM development framework for the python programming language.

Han Feng is an architect from China. After graduating from architecture department of Harbin Institute of Technology 2002, he has been working with L.A. International Ltd in Beijing. He ob-tained his Master of Science degree in architecture at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2003-2005). In 2006 he has been working with several design companies in Netherlands, including ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], De werff architectuur, ANT Architects and Studio 015. He is currently working on research within Hyperbody, TU Delft aiming at enriching architectural design with ideas and methods found in Quantum mechanics.

Alireza Hakak is an architect from Iran. After obtaining Master of Science in architecture from Art & Architecture faculty of Azad University of Tehran in 2005, he has worked as freelance architect for several consulting Engineers in Tehran. He had been a lecturer in Azad University (2007-2008) and member of the board of  “Architecture and Urbanism (A/U)” magazine in Iran. Following his interest in Visionary Architecture and Virtual Environments he joined Hyperbody, a contemporary research and design group at the TU Delft in 2011 as a PhD researcher. The on-going research is focused on understanding the effects of information frameworks driving real-time interactive environments within the virtual domain and the emergent qualitative and quantitative data sets which they embody as a knowledge model for enhancing creativity within contemporary design processes. Emphasizing on  real-time interactive, immersive Virtual environments, within which an emergent spatial pattern can dynamically evolve in time with respect to user interactions, a variety of spatially intriguing concepts such as: Multiple dimensions, Dematerialization, Infinite depth, Continuous change, Multiple scales etc. can be experimented with. These concepts and their visualization can render cognition and perception based studies a new meaning.

 Xin Xia graduated from at the Nanjing Arts Institute for Decorative Art Design in 1999. In 2000, she stopped her postgraduate studies in China and moved to Enschede, the Netherlands for new inspirations. She obtained Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Studies from the Dutch Art Institute in 2002. Her practice was mainly in painting and installation. In 2003, she obtained Master of Arts in Film and Television Studies from the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS), Amsterdam University. Her research was focused on Cognitive Film Theory and Contemporary Video Art Installations. From 2004, she was involved with ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] in Rotterdam on art projects and publicity. In 2005 she joined Hyperbody as a researcher, started from organizing the GameSetandMatch II conference. Later on, besides working on publications, protoSPACE Art projects coordinating and events organizing, she was working as course coordinator for Media Studies course, and for Literature and Media course. Her own research, which is trying to bridge the fields of interactive architecture studies and cognitive psychology, is titled “A 4EA Cognitive Approach for Rethinking the Human in Interactive Spaces”.

Veronika Laszlo moved to the Netherlands in 1987 and studied software engineering and artificial intelligence. She was working on many ICT projects for various companies involving tele-communications, networking, databases and web solutions. She joined Hyperbody as a programmer in 2008 and works on protoSPACE projects.