Ladybug in the Wild

Tools to Face Climate Change with Architectural Design in Danish Applications
Ladybug Tools is a collection of free computer applications that support environmental, sustainable, and parametric design. Founded by Mostapha Roudsari over 5 years ago and improved through the developments of Chris Mackey, the tools have been downloaded more than 180.000 times.  

Today, they are used in many architectural practices and schools, including several major Danish firms and Universities. After an introduction of the tools by the developers, a diverse range of Climate Change practical and research applications at Henning Larsen Architects, BIG, and KADK will provide an overview of possible applications of the tools “in the wild”.

Program

• Introduction - Emanuele Naboni
• 'The story of ​Ladybug Tools' - Mostapha Roudsari and Chris Mackey
• 'Ladybug Tools at Henning Larsen' - Mathias Sønderskov Nielsen
• 'Ladybug Tools at BIG' - Kristoffer Negendahl
• 'Ladybug Tools in Sustainable Facade and Urban Design Research at Institute of Architecture and Technology' - Emanuele Naboni
• 'The future of Ladybug Tools' -  Mostapha Roudsari and Chris Mackey

Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari
Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari is a co-founder of Ladybug Tools LLC. He started the development of several open source projects including Ladybug Tools, EPWmap and Design Explorer. He is now working full time at Ladybug Tools and lectures and teaches seminars frequently throughout Architecture and Engineering schools, the AEC community.

Chris Mackey
Chris Mackey is a co-founder of Ladybug Tools LLC. He has worked as a Building Scientist at Payette Associates since 2015, after graduating from MIT’s Building Technology program. He is a lead developer of Ladybug Tools, which he regularly applies at Payette and teaches to thousands of professionals and students across the globe.

Kristoffer Negendahl
Kristoffer leads R&D engineer at Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG IDEAS and is an Assistant Professor at DTU.BYG and. Kristoffer’s main topics are sustainable buildings and human comfort, which broadly covers Energy in buildings, Cost-benefit analysis, LCA, Structural minimization, Electrical- and Daylight. The use of scripting and dynamic couplings to various simulation environments are essential of how BIG-IDEAS work as a group. This means tools like Ladybug Tools are used in almost all of BIGs projects in multiple stages of the design.

​Mathias Sønderskov Nielsen
Since2015 Mathias has worked his entire career at Henning Larsen with sustainability and building simulations in all scales and varying phases. Mathias has set up internal processes and hosted in-house workshops with Ladybug tools, with the primary focus on the intersection between daylight, people and architecture. Mathias continually thrives to explore and implement better analysis tools.

Emanuele Naboni
Emanuele is Associate Professor at the KADK Institute of Architecture and Technology. He worked for years at SOM, Architectural Association, UC Berkeley, EPFL and is a newly appointed visiting professor at ETH Singapore. He teaches and researchers in the field of Sustainable Environmental Design. To this extent, he uses Ladybug Tools tin studying urban and architectural solutions toward the study of creative design solutions that adapts to the effects of climate change.