User:Ondrej
Biography
Ondrej Tichy is currently Head of Visual Communication at Heatherwick Studio, developing a strategic vision for how studio project represents and communicates the uniqueness of each design intent to its highest level, while taking into account the purpose and audience of communication, the appropriate tools, as well as the cultural and political contexts that influence project success.
Ondrej is also leading a superstructure package on Pier 55 project, which is a 2.7-acre public park and performance space on Manhattan’s lower west. The superstructure is made of 132 concrete precast pots and the whole park is placed on the 375 piles on the River Hudson.
Since joining Heatherwick Studio in 2012, Ondrej was working on Al Fayah Park in Abu Dhabi, where he was leading 40 000m2 sprayed concrete superstructure and Zeitz MOCAA which is a contemporary museum of modern art in Cape Town.
Prior to working Heatherwick Studio, he gained experience working with BIG in Copenhagen, where he was involved on several major project most notably public park Superkilen, which was rewarded with a 2013 AIA Honor, shortlisted for Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London as well as for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
Ondrej continues to lecture at universities and conferences on the application of virtual reality tools in the architectural practice.
