Hanaa Dahy is a registered architect, engineer, and product developer. She established the BioMat@Copenhagen Research Centre at Aalborg University in 2022 at the TECH: Technical Faculty of IT & Design at the Institute of Sustainability and Planning and is the CEO of BioMat GmbH / BioMat TGU at TTI GmbH since 2022 after the great success of her established BioMat department in ITKE, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning in Stuttgart, Germany since 2016 and after grounding her architectural office in Cairo since 2003.

Dahy holds diverse patents in the field of sustainable building solutions, especially biomaterials and recycling applications in the building industry. Her patents are internationally registered, in EU region, in Germany, in USA, and in Malaysia. Dahy developed the new architectural design philosophy „Materials as a Design-Tool“, based on applying alternative resources as a starting point in the design process.

This philosophy intends to reach sustainable future architecture by targeting available local and bio-annually renewable resources, integrating digital tools like digital fabrication technologies and parametric computational design tools. She designed and fabricated a number of innovative, sustainable, and smart building products, earned numerous Design Awards, won diverse industrial project funds, and designed and constructed numerous architectural and landscape projects as well as diverse experimental architectural pavilions.

Her project regions included Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Dahy’s office & research fields include: architecture inspired by nature, biocomposites, biomimetics, sustainability, smart materials, ecologic building Systems, product design, robotic and digital fabrication technologies, bio-intelligence, vertical farming, additive manufacturing technologies for the building industry, 3D printing, Tailored Fibre Placement, Bio economy, Circular economy.