Lieven Standaert is the designer behind this project. He was trained as an engineer in architecture  at the University of Ghent, Belgium, then went on to study industrial design at IPO in Antwerp.  The project grew as a manifesto for designer-driven innovation.  It evolved into a story of a hands-on, experimental and pragmatic approach for building a radical, non-compromising concept.

Today a designer can create the most amazing CG renderings of the most fantastic concept he can think of. But how do you get a 90-meter , experimental, zero-emission, biomimicry airship actually built… if you’re only a single, young designer with a single, young-designer’s bank account?
Part of his answer is going one step at a time…

His models are currently on display at the Verbeke Foundation, Belgium. He is coordinating research projects with the Erasmus engineering school, Brussels, and is developing custom-built CNC-tools with timelab, a Ghent-based fablab.
He wears a T-shirt with Buckminster’s face on it.

ir.arch. Griet Lambrechts, stedebouwkundige, www.latitudeplatform.eu

dr. lic. Jeroen Laureins, art critic for ,amongst others, De Standaard,  lecturer at Sint-Lucas, Ghent

Jan Geerinckx, stagemanager , entrepreneur, www.mundo-melocoton.com

Tyron Van Hee, entrepreneur, www.isodal.be, RC-pilot

lieven@aeromodeller2.be

TEL +32.486.945.529

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Verbeke Foundation is offering models and drawing of the project for sale.

Showtex NV sponsored the Mylar foil for the large remote-controlled model.

Fire safety tests were organised with the support of PIBA, the Antwerp training facility for fire men, and Eddy Goossens from the Gell fire department.

Erasmus hogeschool is researching the aerdynamics and the dual-function rotors in 2010-2011.

Timelab is a fablab and a workshop, which is collaborating on the development of a number of custom-built CNC-machines with Lieven.