AECtech + 2025 | London Hackathon

Thank you to everyone who attended AECtech + London Hackathon!

On April 12-13, Foster+Partners hosted the first London Hackathon. This event was in partnership with the 2025 Shape To Fabrication conference.

Judges

Hackathon projects were reviewed by an incredible panel of judges

Martha Tsigkari
Senior Partner, Head of Applied Research and Development
Foster + Partners
Alexandra Pollock
Senior Director of CORE studio
Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio
Laura Hannigan
Director
Kairos Studio
Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim
Senior Associate, Head of Geometry and Computational Design
Heatherwick Studio
Shajay Bhooshan
Associate Director & Head of Computation & Design (ZHACODE)
Zaha Hadid Architects

BEST OVERALL HACK: Grasshopper Copilot

An AI-powered assistant that makes parametric design more intuitive and efficient. Think of Grasshopper Copilot as GitHub Copilot, but for parametric design. Just as GitHub Copilot revolutionized coding by suggesting real-time completions, Grasshopper Copilot will do the same for parametric design workflows — making creation faster, smarter, and more seamless.

Team: Alex Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Edwin Hernandez Gomez / ShapeDiver, Anmol Singla / Royal Haskoning DHV, Rony Azar / DAR. Wiley Ng / Heatherwick Studio, Georgios Athanasopoulos / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Vaibhav Warule / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

MOST COLLABORATIVE HACK: MCP: Major Computational Panic

Vibe modelling cities using AI agents. AI Agents are all the hype right now. But they need tools to actually do stuff. MCP exposes functions in local software that our AI overlords can use.

Team: Simon Lut / Arup, Keerti Manney / Zaha Hadid Architects, Amjad Hossain / Autodesk Forma, Matthijs Beekman / VIKTOR.AI, Raoul de Jonge / VIKTOR.AI, Pooyan Kazemi / Royal Haskoning DHV, Sergio Neves / Robert Bird Group

MOST IMPACTFUL HACK: Anything Hackers

AnythingButton is an application that takes user prompts and turns them into functional C# plugins for Grasshopper using an LLM agent.

Team: Milovan Yanatchkov / Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy, Nuraddin Kazimov / Foster + Partners, Juan Rio Pizella / Foster + Partners, Gareth Volka / Hawkins Brown, Pintian Liu / Heatherwick Studio, Ahmed Hasan

HONORABLE MENTION: Rhino in Pajamas

Experience Design in Rhino via Smart Home Integration

Team: Jacob Nash / Blackman & White, Kyle Slugg-Urbino / Epistemix, Carmine A. Rago / AECOM, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

GH Quest

To democratize computational design by making Grasshopper accessible, intuitive, and enjoyable for everyone; from curious beginners to experienced architects.

Team: Jonathan Wong / Populous, Puja Bhagat / Populous, Barbara Vasilatou / Populous, Ammar Naqvi / Autodesk , Charles Driesler / Speckle, Vanessa Chew / VIA

Grasshopper for Everyone

Instead of having the crammed view of grasshopper definitions, our solution will show an easy-to-understand user interface. The grasshopper definition runs in the background, with no view of the grasshopper canvas.

Team: Callum Sykes / Robert McNeel & Associates, Menno Deij / Robert McNeel & Associates

Krzysztof Nazar / Designbotic, Matt Harwood / Robert Bird Group, Alfredo Chavez / Heatherwick Studio, Kohei Hayashi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Attila Nagy / Autodesk

GrassNote

Collaborative user comments for Grasshopper

Team: CheWei Lin / DAR, Gabriele Mattei / Schlaich Bergermann, Rishabh Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Oleg Mosh / Cadence.day

Revalio

All Your Building’s program and lifecycle data and financial metrics. One Place. Built for architects, consultants and real estate developers to analyse, optimise, and present with confidence.

Team: Saeed Kendakji / Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Jacob Nash / Warren and Mahoney, Seraj Kindakji / DAR, Ahmed Gewaily / DAR, Peter Mansour / DAR, Mostafa Hassan / DAR, Sayed Ahmed / DAR, Xue Zheng