Tom Svilans
About
Tom Svilans is an architectural designer, consultant, and researcher exploring digital fabrication, materiality, and emerging technologies. His work focuses on digital design across the timber value chain – from forestry to construction – and methods of integrating new imaging and information-communication technologies in the design and fabrication of engineered timber elements. As a consultant, he specializes in the computational modelling, design development, and fabrication coordination of complex timber structures.
Tom Svilans holds a PhD from the Royal Danish Academy, Centre for IT and Architecture (CITA), thesis titled “Integrated material practice in free-form timber structures” with industrial partners Blumer Lehmann AG (Switzerland) and White Arkitekter (Sweden). Assistant Professor in Digital Timber and Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy since 2021. Project Associate at Omtre AS since 2024.
Digital Timber Practice
This talk will explore the digital design and fabrication of free-form timber structures, and new perspectives in the computational modelling of wood behavior. It will focus on how an understanding of performance at a material scale can lead to new compositions of engineered timber elements and spatial possibilities at an architectural scale. The talk will highlight the development of an integrated digital timber practice, where new approaches in digital design and simulation are tested and refined through prototyping and construction.
Projects
For more information visit website tomsvilans.com
