Hannes Rutenfranz studied architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the ETH Zurich. From 2010 to 2013 he was a project architect and a project leader at Miroslav Šik. Between 2013 and 2018 he worked as independent architect, whilst also as a teaching assistant for Professor Miroslav Šik at the ETH Zurich. He has been part of the BHSF team since 2018.