LJLAB, founded by Lynn Hyun Kieffer and Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch, is a research oriented studio at the intersection of architecture, design and technology. Our mission is the development of novel material strategies and fabrication methods for the diversification of used resources for the built environment and through this a more sustainable future for the construction industry. We focus on biodiversity, architectural entanglements with the environment and interspecies co-existence and co-production of space. Our shared knowledge and interests are incorporated in projects with microbial communities, reuse or use of novel untuned materials and the necessary machining, tooling and processing methods for these. 

Lynn is an architect and PhD fellow at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. She has a background in computational design and development of digital fabrication strategies for non-standard materials in architecture. Her mission is to explore viable material strategies, systems and tooling techniques for a more sustainable building industry. In her PhD she explores the relationships between multiple species and how architecture can function as part of that ecology. The project takes place at the border between the bio-lab and the construction site, it envisions the encounter with a living material and maps the entanglements of a living architecture within its environment.

Jakob is a fabricator, architectural designer and tool enthusiast. He has previously taught and researched at the University of Innsbruck, SCI-Arc, the Royal Danish Academy, and is currently engaged at the Arkitektskolen Aarhus. Here he teaches workshops for computational design and making, attends to the school's robots and 3D printers, maintaining existing and developing new fabrication effectors and workflows.
His passion towards tools for the production and automation of architecture as well as everyday objects embraces crowd sourced and DIY methods, aiming to find mechanical, virtual and actual solutions to contribute to a more inclusive, sustainably built future.

Friends, Current and Past Collaborators:

Äerd Lab
www.aerdlab.com

Animali Domestici
www.animalidomestici.eu

Antonio Scaffidi w/ Royal Academy Copenhagen, School of Design

Distant Realities
www.distant-realities.eu