Since 2021, Skeno Design engages in architectural and design projects using state-of-the-art methods for digital fabrication in combination with computational design tools. During the last three years, we were able to complete first projects, among them the world's first staircase produced by the novel 3d concrete printing method Selective Paste Intrusion.
Skeno was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany. Since five years, we create computer generated imagery across multiple disciplines for international clients.
The name Skeno is derived from an abbreviation of the German word for scenography - Skenographie. As transmitted by Vitruvius in his 7th book of De architectura, the ancient Greek art of creating painted illusions for backdrops of theater scenes - now called scenography - was invented by Agatharchus, a greek painter who lived during the 5th century BC. It is assumed that Agatharchus already incorporated first forms of perspective in his paintings in order to deliver a perfect illusion a long time before a geometrically correct construction of perspective was established by Filippo Brunelleschi in Florence, Italy, during the 14th century.