Dr. Luca Zimmermann is the folded brain behind ORIKIN. Luca studied at ETH Zürich, where he focused his Bachelor's and Master's on biomechanics, structural analysis and optimization, automated generative design, and design for additive manufacturing. In his PhD, he built his scientific home in the realm of rigid origami where he discovered some quite fundamental mathematics.

If you're interested in the technical background of ORIKIN, read Luca's PhD thesis or a more concise (and probably more understandable) article on Wolfram. When Luca is not thinking about folding, he is making music, writing, meditating, or folding his legs to hike mountains.

Dr. Tino Stanković supervised Luca's PhD and has now accepted the role of scientific advisor at ORIKIN. Tino is a senior scientist at the Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His research focuses on developing computational models, methods and tools to support the design for additive manufacturing as well as design optimization, and design automation. Current interests include the development of advanced computational design methods to automatically generate and optimize lattice structures, computational design of origami-adapted rigid-foldable structures, and computational design of 3D printed, personalized medical devices. Tino is a member of the Design Society and serves as a reviewer for several established scientific journals and conferences.

Flurin Forster knows absolutely nothing about origami – but he does know a lot about creativity, creative work, and connecting with people. As a longtime friend and outside voice at ORIKIN, he asks the tricky questions and brings clarity into the complexity of a project. With years of experience in creative processes at artgrid.ch and his mindset of “just do”, he supports ORIKIN as a creative sparring partner.

Lukas Burkhard has received his Master's degree in architecture from the Technikum Luzern in 2017 and continued to specialize in the field of construction and as a 3D-Artist. Since co-founding his own architecture studio in 2020, he has been exploring how to turn visions into realities, both digital and analog.
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At ORIKIN, Lukas crafts renderings that make you want to build something - anything - just to see it come alive. Drawn to the edge of the known, Lukas explores where form, light, and imagination meet, shaping visions that keeps ORIKIN moving forward (through space).