2025. NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: Photon- CYBORG

A mixed reality drawing tool that bridges human intuition with computational precision—augmenting, not automating, the act of drawing.

James Coleman / Sum Point, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Elcin Ertugrul / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Nathan Barnes / Zahner, Polina Ustinova / Entech, Zarak Kasi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Brian Murray / Hathaway Dinwiddie, Bell Wang / KPF, David Vargas / DLR Group

MOST COLLABORATIVE: BIMshady

2D sketch to BIM

Renee Dobre / NBBJ, Craig Forneris / Populous, Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Rachel Min / KPF, Salma Kattass / Workshop APD, Ryan Johnson / Clark Nexsen, Jason Yang / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Harish Palani / Perkins & Will, Isandro Gutierrez Malik / Stantec

MOST IMPACTFUL: Contract Cadence

A design assistant that detects misalignments between your contracts, specs, and design models—catching scope creep before it catches you.

Douglas Kim / Amova Asset Management Americas, Inc., Faye Wang / HLB Lighting Design, Scott Lebow / Baskervill, Chu Ding / RunToSolve, LLC, Janez Mikec, VIKTOR

Revitfy

Discover, organize, and place Revit families like streaming your favorite tracks.

Ellen Berglund / Perkins & Will, Zuzanna Czapla / Perkins & Will, Victor Barbosa / Perkins & Will, Elif Unsal / Perkins & Will, Iffai Mai / Perkins & Will, Nirvik Saha / Perkins & Will, Brian Parish / Perkins & Will, Matt Seager / Perkins & Will

Neighbor

An intelligent digital lens for your neighborhood

Anish Reddy / Perkins & Will, Matthew Breau / BBB, Olivia Iarmak / Meta, Akito Shima / Matsuda Hirata Sekkei Inc., Georgy Karpenko / Perkins & Will, Daniel Boba / Perkins & Will, Carlos Amaral / Entech Engineering

ETABS AutoLog

Automatic LLM-powered structural model logs

Olek Niewiarowski / SOM, Atishay Lahri / Thornton Tomasetti, Sidharth Jain / UMass Amherst, Skylin Spencer / Thornton Tomasetti, Rolando Villena / Thornton Tomasetti, Hiroaki Natsume / hrntsm, Stephen Prendergast / SOM, Chase Perry / Hardesty Hanover

SIMON

Chat with a LiDAR scan - SIMON is an AI that transforms 3D scans into spatial intelligence. It detects, understands, and labels every object in a space.

Ibtissam Bakchich / Columbia University, Joanna Sabak / Heatherwick, Pintian Liu / Heatherwick, Akshaya Prabhu / Entech, Juan Mosquera / Ryan Companies, Yashwanth Munukoti / ACELAB, Omar Alomar / Mildenberg Boender & Assoc, Sivaraman Krishnan / Corgan, Clay Seifert / University of Texas, Vincent Mai / NBBJ

NEURO SQUAD

A more efficient way to make BIM models

Alireza Memarian / MEMO studio, Neda Talebzadeh / Entech, Anmol Singla / Haskoning DHV, Ben Gallini / Baskervill, Ioannis Kopsacheilis / Enemco, Dhruv Patel / Turner Construction

GraphHop 2

Unlock the intelligence trapped in grasshopper

Alex Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Philipp Hölzenbein / Raven, Maximilian Rietschel / Raven, Peter Zhang / Corgan, Karen Kuo / Autodesk, Pawel Sapiecha / Olson Kundig, Yankun Yang / Minus Design Labs

Project:Sieve

Build a live data pipeline that streams Revit model data in real time - before saves or syncs -so you can analyze and act without slowing down the design process.

Jim Smell / Innovation Design Consortium, Christopher Diggins / Ara3d, Nikita Bokhan / Skema, John Pierson / Autodesk, Anthony Samaha / Perkins & Will, Yao Zhao / HOK, Sen Zhang / Ennead Architects, Greg Schleusner / HOK

CloudHopper

Grasshopper in the cloud!

Abhishek Bawiskar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Philip Brouwer / Permitproof, Szabolcs Veress, Benjamin Howes / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Jun Kamatani / Shimizu Corporation, Yuki Nakano / Ishimoto Architecture & Engineering, Nico Azel / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Jacob Russo / SOM

Emergence

Computational Design Educational Video Game

Shandon Herft / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Maya Mashiach / LPA Inc, Stephen Phillips / Epic Games, Cullen Sarles / Ryan Companies, Ife Owolabi, Gigi Singh / Perkins & Will, Daniel Lasso / ODP Architects

ShinkaPacking

LLM Orchestration for NP design problems in AEC

Chen ChihYuan / Woven by Toyota, Akihito Oka, Masaya Hirai / Matsuda Hirata Sekkei Inc., Naoto Tashiro / Shimizu Corporation

Loveable Constraints

Deliver buildable and on-budget designs by integrating the rules and constraints of systems to the core design of the building form.

Kyle Bernhardt / Collectiv.build, Luke Gehron / Perkins & Will, Wade Vollink / Ryan Companies, Christopher McKenzie / SSOE Group, Justin Jao / StructureCraft, Anik Alam / Mithun

The Bee Team

Intelligent GH Authorship - Suggestive Auto-Complete, Contextual Node Connection & LLM Readability.

Anirudha Agara / PT Blink, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Noah Rosenberg / Handel Architects, Edwin Hernandez Gomez / ShapeDiver, Ramy Maher / Revitesse, Rick van Dijk / VIKTOR.AI, Daniel Khalighinejad / Dwellci AI

2025. Chicago

BEST OVERALL HACK: Anthill

Agentic AI Structural Modeling Interface For Embodied Carbon Analysis

Jason Pieper / Perkins & Will, Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Avrinder Singh / FScore.ai, Teodor Duhnev / SNHA, Shreyas Chate / Red River

MOST COLLABORATIVE: Zone In

Zoning rules made simple! Confused by Chicago's zoning codes? Enter an address to get a clear summary of what you can build on your lot.

Seung Jun Lee / Lakril Technologies, Gerald James Low / Culture Studio, Nicolas Chua / Classkick, Gerardo Lopez / WGA, Darren Tung / Rhaeos, Jiaming Shen / Classkick

MOST IMPACTFUL: HouseKeep

Empowering urban residents, such as the elderly and differently abled, to live independently with confidence and safety.

Kaitlyn Phan / Invenergy, Enkela Tafa / TUM, Abigail Hartzell / Invenergy, Astrid Vargas / Marmon Holdings, Jeronimo A. / Blessing Health Systems

HONORABLE MENTION: Shockers

Multi Agent Cross Verification System

Vimalan Sathyanarayanan, Naga Chandana Adusumalli

2025. BOSTON

BEST OVERALL HACK: FirstPass

A ‘code compliance agent’ extracts image context from a raster image of a floor plan drawing and flags potential compliance issues with citations in the raw code PDFs.

Pia Pedroso / Slantis, Elif Unsal / Perkins & Will, Adam Treat / Nomic, Andriy Mulyar / Nomic, Chase Gallik / Nomic

MOST COLLABORATIVE: Monkeys on Keyboards

Monkeys on Keyboards is a collaborative 3D interactive canvas with AI-powered image generation, designed for vibe coders who want to co-create applications — especially for teams in AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) working together to design buildings in a more open, playful, and iterative way.

Built with React Three Fiber and FAL AI, it's not just a dev tool — it's a creative playground for coders, designers, and engineers to build AEC-focused apps together, live. Think of it like a jam session, but instead of music, you're building tools for buildings.

Carlos Torres / Sasaki, Harish Palani / Perkins & Will, Mirnalini Verma, Luke Gehron / Perkins & Will, Shandon Herft / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Joseph Mulligan / CBT Architects, Juliana Cizek, Sarah Khadraoui / New Balance

MOST IMPACTFUL: Rubber Duck(t)

A 3D modeling plugin that provides early-stage specialist guidelines tailored for small to medium architecture firms, bridging the gap before consultants are engaged.

Anthony Samaha / Perkins & Will, Emre Baykurt / Boston University, Ethnie Xu / Hart Howerton, Ioannis Kopsacheilis / Enemco, Nicolas Martinez / Slantis, Qiayi Huang / Boston University, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Victor W. Barbosa / Schmidt Hammer Lassen

ONGOING

ONGOING lets stakeholders and contractors click on linework to instantly view layers and dimensions, making feedback faster and ensuring site updates reach design teams promptly.

Weiyong Zhang / Harvard, Gongqi Wei / Harvard

LilyPad

LilyPad is a Grasshopper plugin for Rhino 3D that enables 2D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis inside Grasshopper. It integrates with the WaterLily solver (Julia-based) and provides an interactive Eto.Forms UI for controlling simulation parameters.

Craig Forneris / Populous, Damola Michael / Cannon Design, Gavin Ruedisueli / Certain Measures, Isaiah Narvaez / WSP, Benjamin Howes / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

PreVu

Embodied Carbon visualization tool for early design studies

Jason Pieper / Perkins & Will, Nirvik Saha / Perkins & Will, Abhishek Shinde / TYLin, Robert Vida

CityPulse

Predictive Modeling for Real-Time MBTA Scheduling

Holden Tang / HDR, Szaby Veress, Emily Guan / Harvard, Chloe Ni / Harvard, Stephen Phillips / Epic Games, Nick Loughrey / HDR

2025. Barcelona

BEST OVERALL HACK: No-Code-Nodes

A collection of explorations focusing on building and surface data processing using n8n workflows and custom nodes. It represents the exploration of using no-code/low-code tools for AEC data processing and analysis.

Agnieszka Nowacka / Shapediver, Ahmed Wael Ismail / EPFL, Karim Daw / Gensler, Nouhaila ElMalouli, Omar El-Tahrany, Rami Anka

MOST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Stag

STAG is a Rhino plugin built for AEC professionals to bring structured stage management and geometry governance directly into the modeling environment.

Track the lifecycle of elements — from Design ➜ Production ➜ Fabrication — using Rhino's built-in User Attributes without disrupting your workflow. STAG makes your geometry smart, trackable, and protected through customizable stages and event listeners.

Ahmed Salah El-Sonpaty / DAR, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Ammar Salama / DAR, Razi S / Link Arkitektur, Sylvain Usai / Design-to-Production, Sevan Mohammadpour / IaaC, Ziad Sameh / DAR

MOST IMPACTFUL HACK: Rhino Inside Rhino

Bridging the gap between the specialist and the user, removing the knowledge barrier that requires harvesting the parametric opportunities that Grasshopper provides in a simple Rhino environment.

Andreas Bak / BIG Architects, Erfan Rezaei / Parametric House, German Otto Bodenbender / BIG Architects, Hugo Riche / IaaC, Mirek Classen / Big Rep, Tarang Gupta, Xavier Garnavault

Zono_Nauts

Training an AI to dream up the next chapter of a city's growth. Using urban data + GNN, we predict how the city might evolve, then compress that future into a single voxel. Asking “what if cities could be played like a (Minecraft) game?”

Nihal Mannath, Mısra Serenay Özgök, Samarth Pachchigar, Sahil Yousaf, Fady Nasr, Kerollus Makkar

Paramatrix

From Pixels to parameters: explorations in constructing parametric 3d building models from a reference image input.

Abdellah Choufani, Eleni Papakosta, Ertuğrul Akdemir, Michele Cobelli, Carmine A Rago

Code2Code

This project aims to address the age-old problem of allowing designers to quickly check if their BIM models are code compliant with their local or foreign regulations. The project is a web page that allows the user to upload the model, along with a document of the regulation to specify, and through prompting with an LLM, understand if the model is correctly implementing these regulations using a generated graph database of the IFC model and the regulatory documentation.

Edwin Hernandez, Salvador Cantuarias, Bradley Manucha, Eleftheria Papadosifou, Dawid Drożdż, Sanjay Kumar, Aleksandra Kraeva

2025. London

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Simple Mess(h)

Extract clean Slab, Wall, and other building assembly typologies from an AI-generated mesh

Andres Amenabar / Foster + Partners, Christoph Geiger / Zaha Hadid Architects, Alex Nap / Zaha Hadid Architects, Renee Dobre / NBBJ, Thomas Lindemann / AIP Partners

DevConOps

Applying DevOps Practices in AEC Context, Towards a Better Collaboration

Ahid Bhati / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Rhishikesh Naynak / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Guy Protani / Robert Bird Group, Sathish Somasundaram / Foster + Partners, Venkat Ravichandran / Foster + Partners

ReDesignMate

Transforming Abandoned Structures into Opportunities

Jeroen Janssen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Rey Duong / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Iliana Papadopoulou / Reope, Carmen Rubio / Foster + Partners

2024.
NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: Snail Rendering

"Realtime" AI imagination for your Rhino model, all within a Rhino viewport, activated via a Display Mode.

Bob Frederick / RIOS, Jimmy Torres / RIOS, Oscar Borgström / Foster + Partners, Chu Ding, PE, PhD / RunToSolve, Kohei Hayashi / Shimizu, Sheng Zheng, PE / Martin/Martin, Kojiro Suzuki / Shimizu, Yutaka Iribe / Shimizu, Tamaho Shigemura / Algorithm Design Lab

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Graph-Hop

This project is designed to consume Grasshopper files, parse their component data, and store the information in a TinkerPop graph database. This allows for version control and analysis of Grasshopper files.

Alex Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Alexis Kotzambasis / LPA, Colin Matthews / Ennead Architects, Cullen Sarles / Ryan Companies, Justin Jao / StructureCraft, Ka Kit Chiu / Mithun, Karen Kuo / Corgan, Konrad Zaremba / Kolega, Nicholas Martino / StructureCraft, Peter Zhang / Corgan

BEST BREAKOUT TEAM & HACKER’S CHOICE: UpZone

UpZone is your one-click solution to modeling your NYC lot's buildable zoning volume. The app searches multi-thousand-page zoning resolution documents and city websites, identifies relevant zoning requirements, and generates a user-friendly 3D model for architects to hit the ground running with design. Developed by a diverse team of architects, software developers, machine learning engineers, computational designers, and structural engineers. It combines large language models with spatial algorithms to turn complex, interconnected data into a clean, legible 3D model.

Anish Reddy / Perkins & Will, Eddy Lopez / LPA, Elcin Ertugrul / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Georgios Athanasopoulos / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Omid Sajedi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Susanna van de Graaf / Thornton Tomasetti, Mahsa Dehghani / Corgan, Joyce Hanlon / Snøhetta, Jihoon Park / Walter P Moore, Jari Prachasartta / KPF

Splash

This project aims to streamline model analysis and enhance feedback processes for AEC projects. By integrating Speckle, we provide stakeholders easy web-based access to 3D model analysis results that update in real-time!. This setup empowers non-technical stakeholders to review analysis outputs and provide feedback directly, without needing specialized software like Revit or Rhino.

Stephen Prendergast​ / SOM, Nathan Terranova​ / Corgan, Wade Vollink / Ryan Companies​, Kent Pretorius​ / Fast+Epp, Erika Santos / AECOM​, Julio Sarachaga​ / Lagarsoft LLC, Agustina Aboy ​, Laszlo Andrasi / Perkins & Will​, Anik Alam / ​Mithun

Earth to Rhino

EarthToRhino is a bridge between Cesium, a 3d Geospatial platform, and McNeel's Rhinoceros 3D through Grasshopper.

Paris Nikitidis / Foster + Partners, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Alfredo Chavez / Heatherwick studio, Quoc Dang / KPF, Joanna Sabak / Heatherwick studio, Weiting Kong / Thornton Tomasetti, Jeroen Janssen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Brian Murray / Hathaway Dinwiddie, Nico Azel / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Jason Yang / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

D-AI-LOG

This project demonstrates how to create a FastAPI-based API that interacts with an OpenAI assistant. The API allows you to retrieve the assistant, send messages, and receive responses, all using OpenAI’s Assistant and Thread APIs. It receives instructions to generate a building and returns the building description in a JSON format.

Alireza Memarian / Memo.ai, Christopher Diggins / Ara3d, Francisco Maranchello / Everse , Jacob Sam / NYIT, Luke Gehron, Paweł Sapiecha / Olson Kundig, Taro Narahara / NJIT, Valentin Noves / Everse

Nolli Cannolli

N-C is a project that fine-tunes a diffusion model on Nolli maps to easily generate baseline geometry with diverse urban form. The model creates images that hybridize the urban fabric from any city and can be adapted to a specific site boundary. These images feed into a Grasshopper script to generate 3d massing with customizable density.

Vincent Mai / NBBJ, Hadidi Hosni / Foster + Partners, Mahshid Moghadasi / Stantec, Jacob Russo / SOM, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

From AEC to your HOME!

Tools for preprocessing point clouds for analysis in Grasshopper using Ladybug and for web visualization with React and Three.js. The preprocessing pipeline cleans, transforms, and prepares spatial data, making it compatible with computational design workflows and interactive 3D visualization.

Mark Skepasts / StructureCraft, Kyungho Lee / KPF, Amber Su / Cornell University, Curtis Xu / Cornell University, Hossein Zargar / Walter P Moore, Vahid Koliyaee / Zahner, Sandeep Jalui / Walter P Moore, Rimjhim Singh / Walter P Moore

IMPRINT

The "Imprint" project presents a solution to replace QR codes with embedded, design-integrated visual links. Criticizing QR codes as disruptive and unreadable, it utilizes computer vision and image segmentation across platforms like web frontends, device frontends, and a Revit add-in to embed information directly within images. By generating data embeddings from processed images and employing techniques like image augmentation and feature extraction, Imprint enables drawings and photos to function as interactive, linkable elements—eliminating the need for traditional QR codes.

Anthony Samaha / Perkins & Will, Matthijs Beekman / Viktor, Nehansh Saxena / SLAM, Alan Cation / AC Design Lab, Jackson Lee / Department of Labor, Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Sidharth Jain / UMass Amherst, Travis Potter / DLB Associates, Praneet Mathur / Karamba3D, Nirvik Saha / Perkins & Will

EQUALIZER

Daniel Boba / Perkins & Will, Victor Barbosa / SHL, Kart Gopinath / Perkins & Will, Mario Romero / Perkins & Will, Gigi Singh / Perkins & Will, Nick Cameron / Perkins & Will, Zuzanna Czapla / SHL

2024.
Los Angeles

BEST OVERALL HACK: FAM JAM

FAM JAM is a Revit Plugin aimed at simplifying specification sheet management for Revit, targeting architectural workflows. Fam Jam allows users to seamlessly integrate Revit families with specification sheets, addressing a common bottleneck by turning families into specs, making the process more intuitive and efficient.

Nehansh Saxena / SLAM, Frank (Xu) Li / Saiful Bouquet, Omid Sajedi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Magic Tape

The Magic Tape is an electronic measurement solution based on a simple smartphone app and an affordable electronic measurement device. It's designed to enhance the precision of AR-based systems on construction sites by providing real-time, accurate measurements.

James Coleman / Sumpoint.io, Soomeen Hahm / USC, Poorva Joshi / Morphosis, Brian Murray / Hathaway - Dinwiddie, Sergey Pigach / CORE studio, Callum Sykes / McNeel

Vibe Scout

VibeScout is an application that lets users find areas in LA that are similar to their input. All you have to do is input an address, and the application will return the top five most similar areas based on properties such as green spaces, restaurants, cultural attractions, and much more.

Sophie Moore / CORE studio, Ryland Chase / USC, Brandon Yu, Will Buckser-Schulz / USC, Jacob Blitzer / KHS&S Contractors

Auto Park

Auto Park is a study that aims to streamline the parking lot design process by automating 3D model generation using client-provided 2D data.

Eesha Jain / CORE studio, Lucien du Chaxel / Royal 4 Systems, Danny Tran / Royal 4 Systems, Brendan Wong / Royal 4 Systems, Ariana Chen / Walter P Moore, Srikrishnan Madhavan / Thornton Tomasetti

Endless Bytes 

Endless Bytes, or Your Data Needs a Friend, lets users quickly query metrics and summaries of models from Autodesk Forma using GPT 4.0.

Shirley Zhang / ARUP, Anik Alam / Mithun, Rahman Ismail / Mithun

2024.
BARCELONA

BEST OVERALL HACK: C

A sharable analysis application where designers push models and analysis from RHINO Software to Speckle. Speckle's new Automate picks up the model for further analysis and then the designer can browse, inspect and share direct links with stakeholders the results on a simple web page, no login required.

Havard Hoiby / Autodesk, Ashkan Rezaee / Henning Larsen, Mrinalini Verma / OJB Landscape Architecture, Damian Granosik / Henning Larsen, Konrad Zaremba / Kolega.Space, Adrian Granosik

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Bridges for Coffee

From just 2 points on a map to a 3d-printable bridge concept with design and production models, AI-enabled rendering and documentation in PDF. All so that you can get to your morning coffee faster

Edwin Hernandez / ShapeDiver, Giovanni Consiglio / ACPV, Kan Shindo / Waseda University, Kees Leemeijer / Vertico, Matthijs Beekman / VIKTOR, Pablo Nistal / INGECID, Sanjay Joshi / AFRY, Volodymyr Opanasiuk / REDD

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Tag It

Real time markups from PDF to BIM. Improving markups and collaboration.

Ali Yerdel / Interior Architect, Elton Gjata / Perkins & Will, Jeroen Janssen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Michele Pescatore / AIA Life Designers, Peng-An Chen / Strabag, Victor Wanderley Barbosa / Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Open BID

A marketplace that clients and designers can upload their projects, and receive back transparent cost bidding from multiple suppliers, specific for that particular building part or contract, and review it within their design model.

Andrew Blasdale / Gropyus, Ayse Esin Durmaz / Gropyus, Florencia Feldsberg, Xavier Garnavault, Sylvain van der Meer / VIKTOR, Saverio Camillo Saviello / ACPV

Sausage Dog

Simple web tool for running multiobjective optimization on GH models of a hot dog. Ability to dynamically plug-in a complex models to the web solver with segregation of the Design Space from the GA-Solver (cloud based) and integration of an external NSGA-II library into Shapediver AppBuilder.

Mathieu Huard / ShapeDiver, Marijn Luijmes / LEVS architecten, Cristiano Piagnerelli / ACPV, Alexander Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Felix Wirth / Eller + Eller Architekten

Geocoris

Bi-directional Unity (Meta Quest 3) - Rhino + Grasshopper connection. Provide a real time tool, based on augmented reality, for 3D sketching and previewing scalable parametric models while allowing computational designers to update and modify their real-time streamed Grasshopper definitions.

Orestis Pavlidis / Vertico, Victoria Fedorova / Vertigo, Alexander López, Leon Brohmann / Morph Estudio, Jon Tolosa / Morph Estudio, Sergio Rodríguez

Smart Tutorial

A web app to make interactive, ‘intelligent’ tutorials based on your codebase and domain-specific knowledge. Write a minimal tutorial with general key points, add links to your codebase repo, and let SmartTutorial generate for you a complete and detailed tutorial based on your programming domain.

Milovann Yanatchkov / BIMriver, Li Chen / BRG, Soroush Garivani / The Circular Factory

2023.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: All The Way Down

AllTheWayDown allows for managing dependencies within design workflows, which decreases length of time between design iterations, introduces Git-based version control, and eliminates discrepancies between different stages of design. Initially, AllTheWayDown works for Grasshopper script graphs and Rhino models. Future iterations will expand to other design tools and data inputs.

Chau Nguyen / Foster + Partners, Keyan Rahimzadeh / Grimshaw, Max Dumas / Ulama, Nathan Barnes / Zahner, Patryk Wozniczka / PJW, Sarang Pramode / Ulama, Tyce Herrman / Ulama

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Rhino Anywhere

Rhino Anywhere is a framework that enables high definition streaming of a Rhino Model Viewport to the web. This allows you to reskin and interact with Rhino in any way you desire, whilst still working in the native Rhino Environment. You can create specific command sets for users.

Callum Sykes / StructureCraft, AlAlfredo Chavez / Heatherwick Studio, Jo Kamm / Dimensional Innovations, Dan Cascaval / StructureCraft, Eleftherios Kourkopoulos / Foster + Partners, Emil Poulsen / Thornton Tomasetti, Josh Grift / StructureCraft, Justyna Szychowska / KPF, Kyle Slugg-Urbino / Stride Geospatial, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: FURN-E

This Vue.js application uses the OpenAI API to generate images based on a user-provided description and presents the generated images for selection. Additionally, it displays product options based on those generated images.

Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Jaxon Fortune / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Pablo Herraiz / Shepley Bulfinch, Daniel Lu / NYU, Mona Mirzaie / Pickard Chilton, Ben Zuill-Smith / GDS Estimating, Christopher Smith / Promptly Technologies

SAiF-GPT

SAiF-GPT aims to provide a solution for using Chat GPT in a secure and compliant manner, even when dealing with sensitive information. To ensure that corporate policies and NDAs are respected, the code and process automate entity detection and anonymization by replacing them with analogous values. The end goal is to allow AEC industry to use AI technology like ChatGPT for document analysis while protecting confidential data.

Agustina Aboy / Slantis, Alexis Kotzambasis / LPA, Aman Sharma / Baker Risk, Carlos Luiz Amaral / SGH, Dan Miller / Degenkolb Engineers, Kodai Endo / Shimizu, Omid Sajedi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Rintaro Yamashita / Shimizu, Samuel Winson Tanuwidjaja / Thornton Tomasetti, Sierra Davis / LPA

Building Forge

Humanity’s only realtime construction pricing engine for planning. Integrate TestFit Schemes and Historical Construction data in Join for quick option evaluation

Clifton Harness / Testfit.io, Ryan Griege / Testfit.io, Dan Anthony / Join, Jules Becker / Join, Tim Ngo / Join, Shea Kusiak / Join

Boring

Smart Real-time Naming for Your Spaces

Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari / Pollination, Alexander Jacobson / BIG, Victor Barbosa / Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Ellen Berglund / Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Daniel Boba / Perkins & Will, Jason Diamond / Perkins & Will, Nick Cameron / Perkins & Will

AECademy

A Sketch-Based Content Retrieval System, an innovative search engine that allows users to use sketches to search for relevant content within a digital database. It is designed to interpret the attributes of the sketched input and provide results such as PDF documents, 3D models, and detailed text descriptions that closely match the sketch.

Chenzhang Wang / HLW, Junling Zhang / KPF, Sen Zhang / Ennead Architects, Emily Guan, Alan Cation / Ennead Architects

XRVZ

Open source WebXR viewer that works on any WebXR-enabled device running in an immersive model viewer, plugging into analysis models like Forma, Hypar, or Viktor for heightened understanding of data

Andrew Swartzell / Pickard Chilton, James Blanchard / Flad Architects, Atharva Ranade / NBBJ, Ben Howes / Thornton Tomasetti, Attalia Brown, Martin Johnson, Ben Ferrer / Turner Construction, Magnhild Gjestvang / Autodesk

COLLAB

This hackathon leverages a diverse range of tools to create a interactive structural optimization and review web applet built in Viktor.

Alexander Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Brian Stuchel / Walter P. Moore, Moustafa El-Sawy / AECOM, Georgios Athanasopoulos / Thornton Tomasetti, Nicolas Azel / Thornton Tomasetti, Murat Melek / Walter P. Moore, Stijn Jansen / VIKTOR, Wendy Chikowero / Thornton Tomasetti, Yang Xie / Degenkolb Engineers, Victor Calderon / Walter P. Moore

It Takes a Village

Why 5 platforms are better than one​

Marcel Slootweg / VIKTOR, Håvard Høiby / Autodesk, Håkon Matland / Autodesk, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari / Pollination

Ez.Rx

EZRX is a plug-in for Rhino that helps a user use Chat GPT to create scripted Grasshopper nodes.

Christopher Diggins / Ara3d, Travis Potter / Buro Happold, Sun Lee / Handel Architects, Emma Xu / Pratt Institute, Bell Wang / Pratt Institute, Haki Sallaku / Manhattan University, Marcelo Villalba

FindIT

Forestry Identification and Navigation forDigital Imaging Transfer

Shariful Anik / Mithun, Pawel Sapiecha / Olson Kundig, Pablo Derendinger / e-Verse, Hailey Kim / ARUP, Quoc Dang / KPF

Wasted

Unlock value in existing end of service buildings. Use Reality Capture, AI and Parametric Design to define value, repurpose, and reuse.

Michael Zarrella / HDR, Jared Friedman / Walter P Moore, Tim Li / SHoP Architects, Gorkem Okudan / Thornton Tomasetti, Val Tzvetkov / Skanska, Brandon Perry / Thornton Tomasetti, Nezar Abraham / Thornton Tomasetti, Yutan Sun / KPF, Erika Santos / AECOM, Sheldon McLeod / SHoP Architects

Clippy AI

QC your model Or else: many RFIs

Abhishek Bawiskar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Russell Feathers / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Chris Chan / Juno, Francisco Maranchello / e-Verse, Matthew Breau / BBB, Peter Zhang / Corgan, Alloy Kemp / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

RAMit

Revit to Ram Concept Interoperability

Atishay Lahri / Thornton Tomasetti, Rolando Villena / Thornton Tomasetti, Gregorius Budhijanto, Joydeep Chatterjee, Kohei Hayashi / Shimizu

2023.

SEATTLE

BEST OVERALL HACK: GhPT

This project sets out to find a way to leverage the power of ChatGPT to create Grasshopper definitions.

Callum Sykes / StructureCraft, Jo Kamm / Dimensional Innovations, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Ryan Erbert, Quoc Dang

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Carbon Hacker

Carbon Hacker is a web tool for home/building owners and designers to understand the current and future operational carbon emissions of their existing or proposed buildings due to their grid electricity and on-site fossil fuel usage, as well as the impact of PV on the net emissions..

Sishe Jeff Chin / ZGF Architects, Margarita Ganeva / Carrier Johnson + CULTURE, Heinrich Hoza, Daniel Mayall / ZGF Architects, Pawel Sapiecha / Olson Kundig, Chris Savage / LMN, Fendy Setiawan / Degenkolb Engineers, Chuou Zhang / ZGF Architects

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Likeable

Likeable is your architectural wingman, showcasing designs one-by- one for focused decisions and swipes. Through a gamified interface, you gain valuable insights from colleagues’ quick swipes, steering you towards your project’s perfect design match.

Shariful Alam, Kristen Forward / NBBJ, Atharva Ranade / NBBJ, Weston Norwood

HONORABLE MENTION: Beyond QWERTY

Making a Keyboard Layout that is Optimized for Python

Terry Liu, Caden Rowse, Owen Susanto, Scott Dea

Seismic Coefficient Mapper

Seismic coefficient mapper

Nathan Xu / Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Parth Korde / Thornton Tomasetti, Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Andres Roncal / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

Fire Hazard Simulator

A real time interactive fire hazard map simulator utilizing Google Map API, Weather Info, and Historical Fire Data

Boris Plotnikov / WeWork, Michael Weismann / SWAPP, Jean-Luc Jackson, Srikrishnan Madhavan / Thornton Tomasetti, Bianca Casem / Degenkolb Engineers

2023.

Los Angeles

BEST OVERALL HACK: Heat Island Hero

Search and display urban heat island impacts, sensitivity, and future heat impacts.

Kendall Gilbert, Evan Koga, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Sila Gulgec / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Alloy Kemp / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: C-Canvas

Connect design strategy today to climate changes, environmental or health impact by raising questions and collecting data from audience.

Ilia Yazdanpanah / HKS, Luke Lombardi / Buro Happold, Mirah Xu / Buro Happold, Quoc Dang, Yixin Lyu / HKS

MOST SUSTAINABLE HACK: Snap Cycle

Recycling with a snap of a camera

Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Pranay Motta / HMC Architects, Aarin Salot / Stripe, Franklin Le, Yongtae Park

HONORABLE MENTION: Healther

Personal Nutritional Co Pilot.

Nate Kwok, Timothy Liu, Daniel Weiss, Grant Liu, Felix Li

Scene Sculpt

Stable diffusion design visualization in Rhino.

Shahrzad Razi / Woods Bagot, Mertcan Büyüksandalyaci / Mirrorscape, Maysam Ghaffari / Woods Bagot, Ziba Esmaeilian / Woods Bagot, Jordan Thayer

Sustainable Collaborators

Read structural template image and optimize carbon output.

Antonio Tayborn, Mason Preece, Douglas Neri / Stantec, Rory Lopez-Esce, Parham Pirzadeh / Degenkolb Engineers, Ian Chu Te

Rhyhorn

An application for sharing 3D Rhino models with pictures.

Jesus Cruz-Garcia, Alex Kazenoff, Akash Chaurasia, Chiahao Chou

2022.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: Crash!

Real Time Rhino Collaboration.

Curtis Wensley / McNeel, Morteza Karimi / McNeel, Russell Feathers / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Erika Santos / AECOM, Moustafa El-Sawy / AECOM, Callum Sykes / StructureCraft, Lukas Fuhrimann / StructureCraft

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Dreamhopper

A new Paradigm in 3D Modelling

Francisco Landeros / INFORM Studio, Pedro Cortes / McNeel, Alfredo Chavez / Heatherwick Studio, Nathaniel Steinrueck, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Juan Arredondo / Columbia University, Jeffrey Moser / Grimshaw, Pablo Zamorano / Heatherwick Studio, Sasha Geremia / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: REmap

Reconciling as-design and as-built. Procedural /parametric logic in the real world.

James Coleman / Zahner, Brian Gillespie / McNeel, Burcin Nalinci / Zahner, Nathan Barnes / Zahner, Quoc Dang / KPF

VAEttle

Performance Design Space Exploration: A Generalized Workflow

Zhenxiang Huang / Arrowstreet, Vincent Mai / NBBJ, Daniel Gaspar / Degenkolb Engineers, Mark Membreno / Caterpillar, Mohsin Afsar, JP Mendez-Ruiz, Paul Laroque / Columbia University, Mitsu Kuroki, Peter Zhang / Corgan

ShapeMaker

What if designers could encapsulate their design logic online and execute as smart components in a geolocated contextual analysis environment?

Alexander Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Ardeshir Aliaskari / MTI Engineering & Testing, Håkon Disse / Autodesk, Jeroen Janssen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Kjetil Kristoffersen / Autodesk, Krzysztof Jedrzejewski / Autodesk, Magnus Wang / Autodesk, Oscar Borgstrom / Foster + Partners, Pål Moen Møst / Autodesk, Zach Kron / Autodesk

Skjematest

What if designers could get office building layouts at lighting speed and understand the environment impact all at once?

Ryan Griege / Testfit.io, Luke Minnich / Testfit.io, Clifton Harness / Testfit.io, Nat MacDonald / Testfit.io, Kjetil Kristoffersen / Autodesk, Magnus Wang / Autodesk, Zach Kron / Autodesk

Difference Machine

Calculating differences between BIM models

Augustina Aboy, Ben Ferrer / Turner Construction, Christopher Diggins / Ara3d, Matt Shelp / Turner Fleisher , Nick Bowker / Turner Fleisher, Nick Mundell / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Sophie Moore / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

DevHops

Visual programming interface with kanban for project management

Marcin Kosicki / Foster + Partners, Jo Kamm / Dimensional Innovations, Justyna Szychowska / KPF, Anders Rod / Foster + Partners, Chuck Driesler / HYPAR

ConfigAR

Connecting augmented reality with the super powers of parametric design and Grasshopper. Making it possible to visualize configurable designs in the real world using nothing else but your phone.

Ben Fortunato / Buildplan, Elcin Ertugrul / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Alice Huang / Turner Fleisher, Val Tzvetkov / Skanska, Luke Gehron, Knut Tjensvoll /
Royal HaskoningDHV, Rolando Villena / Thornton Tomasetti, Atishay Lahr / Thornton Tomasetti, Gokul Gupta

Project-Vibe

Project-Vibe allows users to query anywhere in NYC to find what businesses are walking distance from the site.

Brandon Pachuca / Solemma, Hailey Kim / Autodesk, Robert Wang / Woods Bagot, Nanami Santa Cruz / Google, Sandra Cai, Atharva Ranade / NBBJ, Tamaho Shigemura / Algorithm Design Lab

GraFix

Fix 2d floor plan mis-alignment assuming the floor plan as a graph data structure, in which rooms are nodes and adjacencies are edges.

Yankun Yang / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Omid Sajedi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Sila Gulgec / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Yuan-Tung Chou, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari / Ladybug, Mingbo Peng / Thornton Tomasetti, Taro Narahara / NJIT, Alireza Memarian / Stantec

Seism-Sim

Using Unity and C# to develop a program to visualize game-effect building's time history response under an earthquake curve.

Xianqiao Yang / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Matt Conway / DLR Group, Melissa Bidegain Yeung, Andres Roncal / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Kenny Tam / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

2021.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: MLuminance

Overlay annual daylighting feedback as you sketch.

Karim Daw / BIG, Alexander Jacobson / BIG, Peter Ehvert / BIG, Ken Takahashi / Tokyo University

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Pixeling

Enable visualization of geometry and real-time or static data (from IoT devices or other sources) on a web-server.

Edwin Bailey / Skanska, Alfredo Chavez / Heatherwick, Jeanne Li / MiraclePlus, Eesha Khanna / Cornell Tech, Brad Lei / RISD, Daniel Escobar / Tetra Tech, Amit Nambiar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Superpositioning Structures

Robotics: Cloud Remote Control

Ethan Kerber / Robots in Architecture Research, Dr. Sven Stumm / Robots in Architecture Research, Rushi Dai / Robots in Architecture Research, Ardeshir Aliaskari / MRI Engineering & Testing, Jonathan Kestelman / HDR

Best Fit

Ensuring your equipment gets where it needs to go.

Matthew Bramante / Skanska, Brooke Gemmell / Skanska, Jeffery Moser / Grimshaw, Evan Reilly / Skanska, Val Tzvetkov / Skanska

{un}precedent

Generate floorplan recommendations based on previous data, allowing for a much faster ‘learning’ of existing standards and precedent projects

Ryan Barnette / Grimshaw, Álvaro Cosidó / CBRE, Brandon Pachuca / KPF, Ramón Peña / Populous, Konrad Zaremba / Arch Deco

Facade Forecast

HOT or NOT? What’s YOUR façade’s global warming potential?

Rob Otani / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Abhishek Bawiskar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Elcin Ertugrul / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Andrew Swartzell / Pickard Chilton,

Cuckoo!

Automated Outlier Analysis for Revit

Alex Ogata, Savesh Sp, Jim Peraino / Spatio Metrics, Zhenxiang Huang / Arrowstreet, Matthew Breau / Handel Architects

Automating Analysis Model Extraction

Raytracing based analysis model extraction

Vincent Mai / NBBJ, Mona Hashemi / NBBJ, Danila Babko-Malyi / NBBJ, Atharva Ranade / NBBJ, Pragya Gupta / NBBJ

2021.UK

BEST OVERALL HACK: Spatial Scheduler

A maintenance scheduling app that helps to create Augmented Reality (AR) enabled spatial persistent notes on locations in the real world.

Elcin Ertugrul / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Amit Nambiar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Adam Chernick / SHop Architects, Rolando Villena / Thornton Tomasetti, Ezgi Sendil

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Bonobo

A Grasshopper bridge for Blender simulations

Sergey Pigach / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Omid Sajedi / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Congzheng Zou / BIMtech, Ardeshir Aliaskari / Freelancer, Sahil Tadwalkar / Insite VR

Hackuble

A generative 3D modeling environment built to write and execute C# code in the browser.

Emil Poulsen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Hanshen Sun / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Praneet Mathur / HKS, Yankun Yang / iBuilt Group, Yushi Kato / Turner & Townsend,

Recenseo

A PDF Markup tool dedicated to Rhino that allows a list of PDF drawing markups to be directly referenced into a 3D Rhino model.

Nick Mundell / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Amit Nambiar / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Mark Skepasts / Structure Craft, Johan Reissmuller / Structure Craft, Lukas Fuhrimann / Structure Craft, Sahar Barzani / Structure Craft

2017.NYC

Metashape

Geometry clustering of shapes based on trained features. The goal is to get a set of geometries and cluster them to see patterns in geometric shapes.

Margaret Wang / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Serena Li / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Mark Tam / CThornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Saeran Vasanthakumar / Kieran Timberlake, Petr Mitev / Kieran Timberlake, Andrew Salveson / NBBJ, Marc Syp / NBBJ, Dan Anthony / NBBJ, Meli Harvey / MIT, Mohammad Elsabbagh / Dar Group

K2Engineering

This plugin contains a set of customised Kangaroo2 grasshopper components with the scope of calibrating a number of goals with regard to structural properties.

Cecilie Brandt-Olsen / BIG, Daniel Piker / Kangaroo, Emil Poulsen / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Daniel Segraves / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Norman Richardson / Thornton Tomasetti, Rudolf Starossek / Thornton Tomasetti, Osvaldo Valdivia / Thornton Tomasetti, Mathieu Lerouge / Thornton Tomasetti, Omar Abukar / AECOM, James Warton / HKS

DynaMidi

Input midi to dynamo

Jediah Lankitus, Richard Schmitt / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Kenny Tam / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

Aviary

A multifaceted graphic toolkit operating on top of Grasshopper 3D

Leland Jobson / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, David Mans / interop.xyz, Hanshen Sun / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

Death of Two Silos

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Robert Otani / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Dan Reynolds / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Richard Reynolds, Abanda Abanda

Duct People

Generate duct layout options in Revit

James McNeill / Affiliated Engineers Inc., Arif Hanif / Affiliated Engineers Inc., Matt Mason / Imaginit, Nathaniel MacDonald / CRB

Spot.io

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Pierce Reynoldson / Skanska, Daniel Hambleton, Harrison Yamamoto, Timothy Logan / HKS, Radoslav Simeonov, Val Tzvetkov / Skanska

Honeybee Server

Honebee server is a work in progress to ease the depolyment of the honeybee on cloud!

Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari / Ladybug

Revilations

Creates and maintains element relationships in Revit Models

Leland Curtis / SmithGroup, Mike Kero / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Hiram Rodriguez / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Hanshen Sun / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Fathy Gad / Dar Group

Robotic IoT

Robotic Machine Learning System for Buildings

Rafael Vasquez / Energetik Envelop, Femi King / Energetik Envelop, Richard Tobar / Energetik Envelop

DGBash

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Leland Jobson / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio

Hydrashare 2.0

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Keith Alfaro / Autodesk, Michael Kirschner / Autodesk, Aaron Tang / Autodesk

Shuffle

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Ye Wang / Join, Kyle Martin / Tocci, Osmany Cabrera, Andres Carter, Matthew Breau

Airflow Network Visualizer

Find the best (or better) window openings for natural ventilation

Tamaho Shigemura / Algorithm Design Lab, Hiroyoshi Satake / Shimizu

Ladybug Vizzz!

Ladybug Vizzz! is a cross-platform weather data visualization interface. It runs entirely with Python libraries.

Chris Mackey / Ladybug

2016.NYC

Revit Dynamo JSON

JSON is the most common format of web data transfer. Exploring ways of using that format to get data between Revit and Google Sheets.

Eric Boehlke

Tango Go

Use the Google Tango sensing technology to be able to link the digital and physical environments.

Charlie Portelli, Jared Friedman, Michael Kero

Design Generator - Try it out!

Design generator is a web interface for generating and evaluating design options.

An-lei Huang, Anton Szilasi, Byron Mardas, James McNeill, Leland Curtis, Matt Dahlhausen, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari

3D Print and Revit

3d Printing from Dynamo

Santiago Garay, Chris Winkler, Youngjin Lee, Yueying Cui

BEnMap

Green shaming/celebrating buildings in the city of Boston based on their energy use

Andrew Salveson, Margaret Wang, Chris Mackey, Saeran Vasanthakumar

2015.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: docQR

View Building Construction Docs Online via QR Codes

Matt Mason, Nick Mattise, Josh Wentz, Jonatan Schumacher, Charlie Portelli, Maximilian Thumfart, Irmak Turan

BEST HACK USING EXISTING APPLICATIONS: Hydra - Try it out!

Hydra is a web platform to share your example files from Grasshopper and Dynamo.

Chris Mackey, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Matthew Dahlhausen, Keith Alfaro

BEST COLLABORATION/OPEN SOURCE: Slackit

Slackit is a plugin developed for Revit that enables the software to communicate with team members via Slack. This allows the model to alert users if something goes awry and giving a programmable interface for model management and maintenance.

Ben Muller

Skinventor

Link Autodesk Inventor and McNeel Grasshopper.

Daniel Inocente, Matthew Noe