Mauricio is an architect from Bogotá, Colombia with a master's degree from the TU Delft. He has broad experience in several architecture firms both in Latin America and Europe, involved in the design process of private housing and public buildings from early design to completion. This experience includes being part of a participatory design for a community in Colombia and a library for the visually impaired in Mexico City. He also designed several adaptive reuse interventions and was project architect for several highly sustainable housing projects in the Netherlands.

Sebastiaan Veldhuisen studied architecture at the TU Delft and started his own practice in 1999, where he worked on the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage sites and monumental buildings. Within the scope of these projects, he developed and produced Finn-ovens and water retention solutions. Besides his design work, Sebastiaan lectures at several schools of architecture and summer schools. He consulted with his knowledge of sustainable design in urban developments and buildings. He worked on the R&D of circular zero-energy building systems and he co-developed a BIM solution for building product performance. In the past years, he worked as architect on sustainable modular wooden houses, buildings, and neighbourhoods.