Andrea Rossi
Founder & Design Technology Specialist at Politecnico di Milano
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAndrea Rossi is a founder and design technology specialist with nine years of experience at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, robotics, and biomaterials, based in Vienna. He leads The Computational Hive and is the initiator and lead developer of Wasp, an open-source Grasshopper toolkit for discrete and combinatorial design, bridging research and production workflows. His work spans academia and practice—from doctoral research and postdoctoral projects on combinatorial design and robotic bioconstruction to applied labs enabling large-scale robotic fabrication and mycelium-wood composites. Andrea combines hands-on development (Python/Grasshopper) with research leadership across European institutions, and is known for making complex fabrication techniques accessible through open tools and teaching. An attention to reuse and augmented-assembly workflows underpins recent projects at Politecnico di Milano and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, revealing a consistent focus on circular, materially informed design innovation.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtBachelor of Science (BSc), Architecture, 110/110, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Architecture, 110/110 at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Arts in Architecture (MA), Architecture, 1.0 (ECTS A), Master of Arts in Architecture (MA), Architecture, 1.0 (ECTS A) at Hochschule Anhalt
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (13)
robot10
lgpl10
rhinoceros10
rhino3d9
gazebosim9
simulate9
yarp9
robotics9
rhino9
grasshopper9
webots8
robot-programming7
myo3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ar0551/Wasp
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Combinatorial Design with Grasshopper plug-in (LGPL) initiated by Andrea Rossi
Contributions:41 releases, 364 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 5 months
lgpl
astefas/Funken
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
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