• Uni Bern Outdoor Boulder

    Uni Bern Outdoor Boulder

    The city of Bern recently built a new swimming hall in Neufeld and the universities old outdoor boulder basically lost its place. It was lifted to a temporary location by helicopter. The plywood really suffered from the rain and eventually the decision was made to replace the boulder. I was commissioned with the design of…

  • O’Bloc Extension

    O’Bloc Extension

    O’Bloc climbing gym in Ostermundigen, Switzerland, just a few minutes outside the Swiss capital Bern, has been planning a huge extension, adding roughly 2500 m² of climbing surface to their existing gym. I’m really happy I was chosen for the design of the walls. It’s been a very interesting project with many different wall sectors…

  • Wind Tunnel Testing…

    Wind Tunnel Testing…

    End of May I had the exciting opportunity to support Diego Poncelet on a wind tunnel test day in Geneva. Several different helmets, suits, appendices and positions were tested. A total of 66 sessions at 20 seconds each were recorded. We were handed a USB stick containing numerous folders with spreadsheets and two videos per…

  • Bern 2023 Logo Boulder

    Bern 2023 Logo Boulder

    For this years Climbing World Championship 2023 in Bern I was asked to design a playstructure / mini boulder which looks exactly like their logo. The boulder is designed and built in compliance with EN 1176, the European norm for Playground equipment so it can be set up in public space. Built as three independent…

  • Tuck analysis

    Tuck analysis

    Gaëtan Henry is a french downhill skater and physio therapist. He recently did some very interesting tuck analysis based on my scans of Diego Poncelet and Pete Connolly. Below are some of the animations which were used for the video published on our Instagram profiles. Follow this link, like and comment please. Get in touch…

  • BASPO Boulder

    BASPO Boulder

    Three years ago I got the chance to design a unique boulder wall for the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport (BASPO) in Magglingen, Switzerland. The wall features a top out section and a large vertical part for teaching belaying and rope technique. The boulder wall is located is located in the lower ground level of…

  • New website

    New website

    I’m finally back online with a WordPress based website. Some of my downhill skateboarding related pages are still available in my archive. I deleted some pages and set up a redirect to this page. More content will be added in the next couple of weeks. I’m still looking for the right option to show text…

  • Diego Poncelet

    Diego Poncelet

    Diego Poncelet is the 2022 Downhill Skateboard World Champion. Always looking for improvements on his equipment, we adapted fairings previously designed for Pete Connolly and Azzy Skippings to fit Diego’s Ronin trucks. A few days before Diego was leaving for the final races of the season in South America, we did a full body scan…

  • Elys Extension

    Elys Extension

    The new wall profiles include a concave and convex curved wall, a few different slabs and a big roof. The animations above rely on the WebVR WordPress plugin which might not work at its full potential in all browsers.

  • Carlo Borer

    Carlo Borer

    For his exhibition “Sleeping with the Gods” at KBH.G in Basel in summer 2022, Carlo Borer relied on my computational design skills. The three largest art pieces were at least partially developed with my Grasshopper definitions. More information can be found on Carlo Borer’s website: POP5 Reconstruction Digger A summary of my contribution is printed…