Welcome to the website of Thomas Krijnen. Somebody unfortunately without hobbies, although he spends a lot of time near his computer and guitars.

Over the years Thomas has specialized himself in engaging the built environment (and apple pie) from an IT-oriented perspective. In fact, he hopes to have someday trained his computer to the extent that she (indeed, his laptop is feminine) will do all work for him while Thomas himself can sit back and enjoy his well-deserved retirement. However, for the time being, he researches topics such as Building Information Modelling.

Thomas is an unmistakable agnostic, however, one of his stronger beliefs is that architecture and music were in fact once the same discipline, but were deliberately separated in order to increase financial revenue for its practitioners. In an attempt to prove this, Thomas wrote his graduation thesis on ‘The Musicality of Architecture’.

Thomas has worked as a Senior Software Engineer for the software development and consultancy firm ‘Gehry Technologies’. At the time of writing Thomas is about to finish his PhD research. Thomas is the founder of a company called AECgeeks that specializes in software development and generative design for the Architecture Engineering and Construction industry.

IfcOpenShell

IfcOpenShell is one of the leading open source implementations of the IFC file format and is geared towards providing an easy interface to extract and manipulate geometry in IFC files. Thomas initiated the project and is the lead developer.

Archikey.com

Archikey.com is an free and open architecture encyclopaedia with a semi-semantical data model that allows for highly specialized queries. Thomas initiated the project and is currently the only developer as well as a major contributor of the building data and pictures.

Evaluation of Acoustics using Ray-tracing

EAR is a ray-tracer that models the propagation of sound for architectural acoustics. In addition it provides tools for easily sketching auditory walk-throughs. EAR has been developed as part of Thomas' graduation thesis.

Johann Sebastian Bach on the Dance Floor

Johann Sebastian Bach on the Dance Floor is an interactive art project that aims to investigate the spatiality of music and the notion of taking a photograph of this musical space.

Building Accessibility Guidelines for TNO

For TNO, a renowned research institution in the Netherlands, Thomas built an on-line aggregation of several sources of building accessibility guidelines, composed into an interactive design that can be navigated on-line.

Blender Behavioural Simulation

For a university project Thomas built a behavioural simulation system that allowed designers to engage a behavioural simulation with autonomous actors while simultaneously modelling their design and have the actors respond to the design decisions.

Article

Scientific peer reviewed
2017
2016
Scientific not peer reviewed
2014

Conference contribution

Scientific peer reviewed
2017
2016
  • Beetz, J., Blümel, I., Dietze, S., Fetahui, B., Gadiraju, U., Hecher, M., Krijnen, T.F., Lindlar, M., Tamke, M., Wessel, R. & Yu, R. (2016). Enrichment and preservation of architectural knowledge. In S. Münster, M. Ioannides, P. Kuroczyński, M. Pfarr-Harfst, S. Münster, M. Ioannides, P. Kuroczyński & M Pfarr-Harfst (Eds.), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage II (pp. 1-25). (Lecture notes in computer science, No. 10025). Berlin: Springer International.

  • El-Diraby, T., Krijnen, T.F. & Papagelis, M. (2016). Green2.0 : socio-technical analytics of green buildings. Transforming the Future of Infrastructure through Smarter Information: Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 27-29 June 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom (pp. 551-556).

  • El-Diraby, T., Krijnen, T.F. & Papagelis, M. (2016). Green 2.0 : socio-technical analytics of green buildings. 33rd International Conference of CIB W78, October 31-November 2 2016, Brisbane, Australia

  • Krijnen, T.F. & Beetz, J. (2016). Efficient binary serialization of IFC models using HDF5. ICCCBE2016: 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Osaka, July 6-8, 2016

2015
2014
2012
  • Krijnen, T.F., Beetz, J., Voorthuis, J.C.T. & Vries, de, B. (2012). Explauralisation : the experience of exploring architecture made audible. In H. Achten, D. Matejovská, J. Pavlicek & J. Hulín (Eds.), Digital Physicality – Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Prague, Czech Republic, September 12-14, 2012, Volume 1 (pp. 593-599). (1). Prague, Czech Republic: eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) and ČVUT, Faculty of Architecture.

2009
  • Krijnen, T.F., Beetz, J. & Vries, de, B. (2009). Airport Schiphol - Behavioural Simulation of a Design Concept. In B Coloakoglu & G Cagdas (Eds.), Computation : the new realm of architectural design : proceedings of the 27th conference on education and research in computer aided architectural design in Europe, Istanbul, Sept. 2009 (pp. 559-565). Istanbul: Cencler Printing.

Scientific not peer reviewed
2016
2015
  • Krijnen, T.F. & Feringa, J. (2015). BIM for robotic manufacturing. Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, 17-20 August 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (pp. 1-11).

2014

Thomas Krijnen

mail@thomaskrijnen.com

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