Providing the missing link: As pioneers of building information modeling, we close the process chain that links a construction idea to its fabrication.
For years we have enabled projects of high complexity to take flight and have supported clients, architects, planners and fabricators in reaching new heights of efficiency, safety and quality.
Design-to-Production – we master complexity
Digital Planning
Whether for a competition, a design or a realisation: Design-to-Production supports you with parametric planning, bringing your aspirations of form, function, and construction into harmony.
We create detailed 3D models in fabrication quality, enabling the spatial coordination of different trades, and we generate a reliable basis for the tendering and execution of complex architecture.
Digital Fabrication
With the help of parametric CAD modelling, Design-to-Production initiates a safe and efficient route for you, from concept to machine - from design to production.
We provide 3D construction documentation and process the data required for CNC controlled fabrication, and we ensure that, in the end, all the components fit together perfectly.
Consultancy
More than a decade of practical experience in prefabricated timber construction and digital planning enable Design-to-Production to offer high quality consulting in all project phases.
Our services reach from project development (feasibility studies, detail and construction concepts, tender preparation etc.) to automatisation and digitalisation of planning and fabrication processes to the development of systematised and standardised products.
You can profit from our knowledge and experience, too! We will happily support you to create and execute your project within budget and time frame and in outstanding quality.
Software Development
How would you like to work? Be inventive and redefine your digital tools! Increased productivity, improved quality control, establishing of new planning processes, more effective marketing – there are many good reasons for individual software by Design-to-Production!
Extensions and Plug-ins for CAD/CAM systems such as Rhino, Cadwork, RSTAB/RFEM and others. Web Apps as interfaces between different platforms and for managing data and attributes of any kind. Complete Windows Applications for calculation or dimensioning of your product: Our portfolio covers the complete digital planning process and speaks all common languages such as IFC, BTL, MPR, BVX, BVN, XML, Excel etc.
Take advantage of our unique experience in software development for digital planning and fabrication!
Design & Development
As an innovative company, Design-to-Production works with both universities and partners in industry on international research projects.
We are involved in specialist conferences, and take part in symposia and review committees. Furthermore we contribute our know-how to development projects, both as external consultants and as expert witnesses for the digital chain.
History
Design-to-Production was founded in 2007 by Fabian Scheurer and Arnold Walz. Together, the IT specialist and the architect soon realised that each of them was active, one at the beginning and one at the end, in the same digital process chain, but that, between these extremes, many links were missing. So they became the first to offer Production-oriented data modelling as an independent service. In 2009 Hanno Stehling joined the team.
The firm, based in a former textile factory in Erlenbach near Zürich as well as in Stuttgart, has enabled over 35 ground-breaking projects to date – cooperating with such renowned architects and architectural offices as SANAA, UN Studio, Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, and Renzo Piano.
Team
A pioneering spirit seems to blow through our lakeside offices. Because, here at Design-to-Production, an interdisciplinary team of highly specialised technical consultants apply just the right amount of curiosity and passion to build quality, efficiency and safety into our digital planning processes.
Fabian Scheurer
Managing Partner
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Fabian Scheurer studied informatics with subsidiary studies in architecture, and began his professional career as an assistant in the CAAD department at the Technical University in Munich. Appointments followed as a software engineer in Munich, as well as a consultant for new media in Zurich. He was a research assistant at the CAAD Chair at the ETH Zurich, where the idea to set up his own company evolved. Fabian Scheurer has been a managing partner at Design-to-Production since 2007, alongside which he has taught as a guest lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA, London), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC, Barcelona), and at the HTW Chur, amongst others.
Hanno Stehling
Managing Partner
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Hanno Stehling is partner and head of software development at Design-to-Production Zurich.
He graduated with a diploma in architecture from University of Kassel, Germany. He has a strong background in computer programming and gradually focused his studies onto the intersection between architecture and computer science, joining a research group about parametric design led by Prof. Manfred Grohmann of Bollinger + Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann (now Professor for Digital Design at TU Darmstadt). After graduating, he worked as a freelance programmer and as computational designer for renowned architects like Bernhard Franken before joining Design-to-Production in 2009.
Evy Slabbinck
Managing Director
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Arnold Walz
Managing Partner (Stuttgart)
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Arnold Walz studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart, specialising in lightweight construction and planning theory. Even while still studying, he worked on projects with tricky geometries such as the Olympic Stadium in Montreal or the reconstruction of Gaudi's suspended model for the Colònia Güell Church. He developed scripts to generate and optimise complex building geometries, applying own his approach, namely that these complex geometries should not be drawn but rather be "written", to his work on ambitious designs by notable architects such as Norman Foster or Herzog & de Meuron. Arnold Walz runs Design-to-Production’s Stuttgart office.
Philipp Rumpf
Managing Partner (Stuttgart)
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Jingcheng Chen
Team Leader Software Development
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Martin Pfundt
Senior Consultant
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Sylvain Usai
Consultant
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Moritz Niebler
Consultant
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Jonas Van den Bulcke
Consultant
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Daniel Christev
Consultant
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Bastian Nispel
Consultant
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Alumni
Karl Ahlund, Dominique Angehrn, Martin Antemann, Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska, Marta Besalu Canals, Rob Beson, Michael Brunner, Chiara Colli, Max Eschenbach, Joost Fähser, Augusto Gandia, Aurèle Gheyselinck, Tristan Gobin, Abel Groenewolt, Julian Höll, Matthias Hornung, Johann Kottmeir, Valentin Kubatta, Johannes Kuhnen, Axel Larsson, Patrick Leite, Alessandro Mac-Nelly, Pascal Mobailly, Stefana Parascho, Matteo Persanti, Mischa Proll, Raoul Ruoff, Tomaz Scheliga, Lando Schumpich, Michele Semeghini, Gaganjit Singh, Victor Sitterlé, Julia Spahn, Anton Szilasi, Gianluca Tabellini, Behrooz Tahanzadeh, Ghaith Tish, Valeriia Vlasenko, Nick Williams
Jobs
Design-to-Production is applied innovation. That’s why we are always on the look out for great minds: people who combine engineering knowledge with creativity, and who understand how to tread the fine line between architecture and computing.
Please send your application to:
Design-to-Production GmbH
Seestrasse 78
CH-8703 Erlenbach/Zurich
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Publications
Knowledge can only bear fruit when shared. In order to pass on our know-how, we regularly publish in current journals. Get your own overview of our work and our research.
Publications
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Contact Address
Design-to-Production GmbH
Seestrasse 78
8703 Erlenbach/Zurich
Switzerland
Company Registration
Registered company name: Design-to-Production
Number: CHE-113.485.127
Companies registry office: Zurich
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CHE-113.485.127
Design
Martin et Karczinski Zürich
Programming
Frank Meyer
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Anna-Caroline Pflug
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