Welcome to the Ghosts of Hackathon Past!

This is a straightforward, no-frills, running list of all the projects created at AEC Tech Hackathons.
GitHub Repos are linked!

If you spot any errors, please let us know!

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.

Team: 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

Team: Edwin Hernandez, Shapediver / Giovanni Consiglio, ACPV Architects / 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.

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

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.

Team: 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.

Team: Mathieu Huard, Shapediver / Marijn Luijmes, LEVS architecten / Cristiano Piagnerelli, ACPV / Alexander Schiftner, Shapediver / Felix Wirth, Eller

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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: Chau Nguyen, Foster + Partners / Keyan Rahimzadeh, Grimshaw/ Max Dumas, Ulama / Nathan Barnes, A 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,

Team: Callum Sykes, Structurecraft / Alfredo 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.

Team: Sophie Moore, Thornton Tomasetti / Jaxon Fortune, Thornton Tomasetti / 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.

Team: 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 / 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

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

Boring

Smart Real-time Naming for Your Spaces

Team: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Pollination / Alexander Matthias Jacobson, BIG / Victor Barbosa, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Ellen Berglund, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Daniel Boba, Perkins & Will / Jason Diammond, 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.

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

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

Team: Andrew Swartzell, Pickard Chilton / James Blanchard, Flad Architects / Atharva, 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.

Team: 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 Engineer / Victor Calderon, Walter P. Moore

It Takes a Village

Why 5 platforms are better than one

Team: Marcel Slootweg, VIKTOR / Håvard Høiby, Autodeks / 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.

Team: Christopher Diggins, Ara 3D / Travis Potter, Buro Happold/ Sun Lee, Handel Architects / Emma Xu, Pratt Institute/ Bell Wang, Pratt Institute / Haki Sallaku, Manhattan College / Marcelo Villalba, MEGA

FindIT

Forestry Identification and Navigation forDigital Imaging Transfer

Team: 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.

Team: 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

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

RAMit

Revit to Ram Concept Interoperability

Team: 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.

Team: Callum Sykes, StructureCraft / Jo Kamm, Dimensional Innovations / Sergey Pigach, 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..
Team: 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.
Team: Shariful Alam / Kristen Forward, NBBJ / Atharva Ranade, NBBJ / FX Wood / Weston Norwood

HONORABLE MENTION: Beyond QWERTY

Making a Keyboard Layout that is Optimized for Python
Team: Terry Liu / Caden Rowse / Owen Susanto / Scott Dea

Seismic Coefficient Mapper

Seismic coefficient mapper
Team: Nathan Xu, Magnusson Klemencic Associates / Parth Korde, Thornton Tomasetti / Sophie Moore, CORE studio / Andres Roncal, CORE studio

Fire Hazard Simulator

A real time interactive fire hazard map simulator utilizing Google Map API, Weather Info, and Historical Fire Data
Team: Boris Plotnikov / Michael Weismann / 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.
Team: Kendall Gilbert / Evan Koga / Sergey Pigach, CORE studio / Sila Gulgec, CORE studio / Alloy Kemp, 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.
Team: 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
Team: Sophie Moore, CORE studio / Pranay Motta, HMC Architects / Aarin Salot / Franklin Le / Yongtae Park

HONORABLE MENTION: Healther

Personal Nutritional Co Pilot.

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

Scene Sculpt

Stable diffusion design visualization in Rhino.

Team: Shahrzad Razi, Mertcan Büyüksandalyaci, Maysam Ghaffari, Ziba Esmaeilian, Jordan Thayer

Sustainable Collaborators

Read structural template image and optimize carbon output.

Team: Antonio Tayborn, Mason Preece, Douglas Neri, Rory Lopez-Esce, Parham Pirzadeh, Ian Chu Te

Rhyhorn

An application for sharing 3D Rhino models with pictures.

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

2022.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: Crash!

Real Time Rhino Collaboration.
Team: Curtis Wensley, McNeel / Morteza Karimi, McNeel / Russell Feathers, 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
Team: Francisco Landeros, INFORM Studio / Pedro Cortes, McNeel / Alfredo Chavez, Heatherwick Studio / Nathaniel Steinrueck, AIA / Sergey Pigach, CORE studio / Juan Arredondo, Columbia University / Jeffrey Moser, Grimshaw / Pablo Zamorano, Heatherwick Studio / Sasha Geremia, CORE studio

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: REmap

Reconciling as-design and as-built. Procedural /parametric logic in the real world.
Team: James Coleman, Zahner / Brian Gillespie, McNeel / Burçin Nalıncı, Zahner / Nathan Barnes, Zahner / Quoc Dang

VAEttle

Performance Design Space Exploration: A Generalized Workflow

Team: Zhenxiang Huang, Vincent Mai, Daniel Gaspar, Mark Membreno, Mohsin Afsar, JP Mendez-Ruiz, Paul Laroque, Mitsu Kuroki, Peter Zhang

ShapeMaker

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

Team: Alexander Schiftner, Ardeshir Aliaskari, Håkon Disse, Jeroen Janssen, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Krzysztof Jedrzejewski, Magnus Wang, Oscar Borgstrom, Pål Moen Møst, Zach Kron

Skjematest

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

Team: Ryan Griege, Luke Minnich, Clifton Harness, Nat MacDonald, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Magnus Wang, Zach Kron

Difference Machine

Calculating differences between BIM models

Team: Augustina Aboy, Ben Ferrer, Christopher Diggins, Matt Shelp, Nick Bowker, Nick Mundell, Sophie Moore

DevHops

Visual programming interface with kanban for project management

Team: Marcin Kosicki, Jo Kamm, Justyna Szychowska, Anders Rod, Chuck Driesler

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.

Team: Ben Fortunato, Elcin Ertugrul, Alice Huang, Val Tzvetkov, Luke Gehron, Knut Tjensvoll, Rolando Villen, Atishay Lahr, Gokul Gupta

Project-Vibe

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

Team: Brandon Pachuca, Hailey Kim, Robert Wang, Nanami Santa Cruz, Sandra Cai, Atharva Ranade, Tamaho Shigemura

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.

Team: Yankun Yang, Seyedomid Sajed, Sila Gulgec, Yuan-Tung Chou, Mostapha Roudsari, Mingbo Peng, Taro Narahara, Alireza Memarian

Seism-Sim

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

Team: Xianqiao Yang, Matt Conway, Melissa Bidegain Yeung, Andres Roncal, Kenny Tam

2021.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: MLuminance
Overlay annual daylighting feedback as you sketch.

Team: Karim Daw, BIG / Alexander Jacobson, BIG / Peter Ehvert, BIG / Ken Takahashi, Student: 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.

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

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Superpositioning Structures
Robotics: Cloud Remote Control

Team: 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.

Team: 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

Team: 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?

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

Cuckoo!
Automated Outlier Analysis for Revit

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

Automating Analysis Model Extraction
Raytracing based analysis model extraction

Team: 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.

Team: Elcin Ertugrul, CORE studio / Amit Nambiar, CORE studio / Adam Chernick, SHop Architects / Rolanda Villena, Thornton Tomasetti / Ezgi Sendil, Graduate Student

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: Bonobo
A Grasshopper bridge for Blender simulations

Team: Sergey Pigach, CORE studio / Omid Sajedi, 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.

Team: Emil Poulsen, CORE studio / Hanshen Sun, CORE studio / Praneet Mathur, ARPM Design and Research / 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.

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

2020.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: EZEC
Embodied Carbon Made Eazy.

Team: Andrew Swartzell, Pickard Chilton / Luke Gehron, Payette / Patryk Wozniczka, Entuitive / Emil Poulsen, CORE studio / Brittney Holmes, HMC Architects / Chris Hazel, Ayers Saint Gross Architects / Luke Lombardi, Thornton Tomasetti

BEST OPEN SOURCE HACK: GANPlan
Generate and evaluate home layout plans based on realism, diversity, and compatibility through machine learning.

Team: Demi Chang, KPF / Mark Horgan, Freelancer / Leland Curtis, Smith Group / Brandon Pachuca, KPF / Matthew Breau, Handel Architects

BEST COLLABORATIVE HACK: Layout5
A residential layout recommendation app using machine learning to recommend designs based on an easy sketch-to-layout mechanism and real-time daylighting analysis.

Team: Theodoros Galanos, CIL,AIT / Ping-Hsiang Chen, KPF / Peng Wang, KPF / Jeroen Janssen, CORE studio

Platematic
Automatic Base Plates Design & Documentation App.

Team: Norman Noe, CORE studio / David Mans, CORE studio / Amit Nambiar, CORE studio / Abhishek Bawiskar, CORE studio / Srikrishnan Madhaven, Thornton Tomasetti / Yushi Kato, Turner & Townsend / Aleksandra Jastrzebska, AECOM

Gener8.io
Gener8.io looks to remove barriers and make room configuration accessible through a simplified web-based application.

Team: Clifton Harness, TestFit.io / Arif Hanif, Affiliated Engineers / Joao Rodrigo Andre Alves Silva / Andrew ColeM\

Smoking GAN
An experimental framework for running ML Models inside the Grasshopper / Rhino environment.

Team: Sergey Pigach, CORE studio / Sergio Guindon, Cirrus Structural Engineering / Mayur Mistry, University of Illinois / Charles Portelli, CORE studio

2019.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: SketchGAN + GANgaru / check out this video!
Spring your sketch to 3D life. A web-based interface for sketching in conjunction with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

Team (SketchGAN): Dan Siroky, HOK / Sounok Sarkar, HOK / Byron Mardas, Foster + Partners / Marios Tsiliakos, Foster + Partners
Team (GANgaru): Alberto Tono, SFCDI / Constantina Tsiara, Workshop APD / Pablo Derendinger, ENGworks / Valentin Noves, ENGworks / Jeffrey Moser, Grimshaw / Lexi Fritz, Tetratech / Rachel Hartley, Autodesk

BEST OPEN SOURCE: RT-ish Flow
Lattice Boltzmann-Computational Fluid Dynamics in GH

Team: Nickolaus Sundholm, Thornton Tomasetti / Mingbo Peng, Thornton Tomasetti / Daniel Bosia, Thornton Tomasetti / Jeroen Janssen, Thornton Tomasetti

BEST COLLABORATION: Building Ballot
Democratizing the design process by allowing all stakeholders to make informed decisions and provide feedback to designers in all phases

Team: Nat MacDonald, BuroHappold / Arif Hanif, AEI / Luke Gehron, Payette / Chuck Driesler, PxWe / Xinye Lin / Allie Bosage, Shepley Bulfinch / Samarth Gwalani, Meis Architects / Riya Patel, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, LLP

Regular Espressos
Automatic data validation for your Revit model

Team: Oliver Green, AHMM / Norman Noe, CORE studio

ArcRhino
Integrating Rhino.Inside within ArcGIS

Team: Nico Azel, evolveEA / Ryan Welch, KieranTimberlake / Sabrina Naumovski, KieranTimberlake / Eesha Khanna, KieranTimberlake / Amit Nambiar, CORE studio

Airbud
Rhino inside export to Airtable tables, add data to Rhino geometry, view data in Rhino using CEFSharp and Vue.js

Team: Nicholas Cassab, Ennead / Nicolas Schmidt / Christopher Connock, KieranTimberlake / Scott Diescher / Yongjoon Kim

Sparrow
A tool that empowers designers with data during design process

Team: Brandon Pachuca, KPFUI / Pragya Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University / Paul Garabedian, ELLANA Cost Consultants / Olga Bienias, ECA / Meli Harvey, Urban Obscura / Elcin Ertugrul, CORE studio

Wishbox
A group of people to make your wish true

Team: Rajamanickam, KSP Architekten / Aleksandra Jastrzebska, McLaren Engineering Group / Pengcheng(Alex) Zhou, Thornton Tomasetti / Desmond He, AEI
James (Jay) Andrews Jr, Thornton Tomasetti / Luke Lombardi, Thornton Tomasetti / Emily Hwang

PunchBoss
Robot documents and directs resolution of issues onsite

Team: Filippo Alimonda, VirtualAPT / Madhurya Udayakumar, Pratt / Val Tzvetkov, Skanska / Pierce Reynoldson, WeWork / Radihika Rajaram, VirtualAPT

Drawn in SWARM
Visualizing Rainfall Flows on the roof

Team: Tamaho Shigemura, ADL / Hiroya Inage, ADL / Kan Shindo, Waseda University / Hiroyoshi Satake, Shimz

Null Stack
Design Space Exploration optimizer that generates an ML model of a design space using as few simulations as possible

Team: Petr Mitev, NBBJ / David Eaton, NBBJ / Leland Curtis, SmithGroup / Steven Blevins, Cuhachi & Peterson / Matthew Breau, NJIT

2019.Seattle

BEST OVERALL HACK: MECHAHOPPER
Grasshopper Machine Control

Team: James Coleman, A.Zahner Company / Nadya Peek, UW HCDE / Calvin Zhong, WeWork / Brian Gillespie, Robert McNeel & Associates / Junichiro Horikawa / Tim Logan, HKS / Andy Tatkowski, Thornton Tomasetti

BEST OPEN SOURCE: Stroll (GitHub 1 / GitHub 2)
It’s a great time to take a Stroll… Research suggests that taking a walk, or a Stroll, can boost cognitive thought processes leading to better or alternative solutions that wouldn’t otherwise have happened when sitting in front of a computer or in a meeting room. Our app will help map out a Stroll for you or your team based on given time duration and path to include nature, daylight/shade, water, art, etc… Use Stroll to boost the creative potential of your next meeting

Team: Nate Holland, NBBJ / Petr Mitev, NBBJ / Brandon Yu, Galvanize / Adam Chernick, SHoP Architects / Jason Wheeler, CallisonRTKL

BEST COLLABORATION: Eagle
Model health prediction

Team: Alberto Tono, HOK / Eric Schoettle / Noah Kelly, HMC Architects / Ren Eto, WeWork / Steven Hansen, NBBJ / Yushi Kato, WeWork

Future City Vision
Allowing the community to envision how the city may change and grow

Team: Gavin Argo, Olson Kundig / Ana Brainard, Olson Kundig / Joel Hills, CPL Inc. / Charlie Portelli, CORE studio / Ethan Davis, Mithun / Nicole Myers, Honolulu Aerial / Alexis Nichol, Olson Kundig

Layout Hawk
A panel of tools to simplify & enhance the management of layouts in Rhino 3D

Team: Mary Fugier, Robert McNeel & Associates / Dale Fugier, Robert McNeel & Associates / Daniel Depoe, Katerra / James Munns, Structurecraft

DamageDogs
Projecting interpretable and recognizable damage levels, the result of forces, blast, or push over data, onto the modeled object for client/team visualization/communication

Team: Michael Roberts, HDR / Corbin Robeck, Thornton Tomasetti / Paul Tominna, Thornton Tomasetti / Imran Peerbhai, Thinkpredict / Steven Blevins, Cuhaci & Peterson / Jackson Pitofsky, Thornton Tomasetti / Will Pearson, Robert McNeel & Associates

2018.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: RESThopper

Team: Marc Syp, NBBJ / Emil Poulsen, CORE studio / Sergey Pigach, CORE studio / Chuck Driesler, HOK / Carl Wedell, Radius Track Corp. / Nico Azel, Carnegie Mellon

BEST OPEN SOURCE: Verify in Field (VIF)

Team: Mohammad Khatib, e.construct / Miles Barber, Thornton Tomasetti / Pengcheng ‘Alex’ Zhou, Thornton Tomasetti / Maryanne Wachter, LERA / Paola Cuevas, Perkins Eastman / Motasem Matarneh, e.construct

BEST COLLABORATION: Holy Frit
Glitch Links: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine

Team: Ali Worthington, KieranTimberlake / Christopher Connock, KieranTimberlake / Brandon Cuffy, KieranTimberlake / Saeran Vasanthakumar, KieranTimberlake / Cheryl Hu, KieranTimberlake / Eric Rudisaile, Microdesk / Albert Slepak, Brooklyn Technical High School

theSAURUS

Team: Petr Mitev, NBBJ / Konrad Sobon, HOK / Ahmed Abbas, e.construct / Patrick Pease, Arup / Varvara Toulkeridou, Autodesk / Aaron Tang, Autodesk / Sy-Wei Ho / Jasmine Wright, The New School/DKGR

GoRhinoGo

Team: Charlie Portelli, CORE studio / Georgios Tsakiridis, Grimshaw / Byron Mardas, Foster and Partners / Andrew Swartzell, Pickard Chilton

SneakyCat

Team: Amit Nambiar, LERA / Zack Sickman, University of Cincinnati / Leland Curtis, SmithGroup / Joseph Wagner, Stantec / Vina A. Soliman, Perkins + Will / Mia Tsiamis, LERA

Stridulator

Team: Elcin Ertugrul, CORE studio / Daniel Segraves, CORE studio / Lucas Lombardi, Thornton Tomasetti / Rolando Villena, Thornton Tomasetti / Andy Tatkowski, Thornton Tomasetti / Toussaint Jimenez Rojas, AECOM / Nathan Barnes, Zahner

Take ‘n Bake

Team: Mingbo Peng, Thornton Tomasetti / Abhishek Bawiskar, CORE studio / Tim Williams, Pelli Clarke Pelli / Ramzi Jaber, e.construct / Ricky Bagg

Grassflow

Team: Alan Tai, FRONT / Hanshen Sun, CORE studio / Corbin Robeck, Thornton Tomasetti / Ahmad Ghunaim, e.construct

2017.NYC

Metashape

Team: Margaret Wang, CORE studio / Serena Li, CORE studio / Mark Tam, 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

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

DynaMidi

Team: Jediah Lankitus / Richard Schmitt, CORE studio / Kenny Tam, CORE studio

Aviary

Team: Leland Jobson, CORE studio / David Mans / Hanshen Sun, Pratt

Death of Two Silos

Team: Robert Otani, CORE studio / Dan Reynolds, CORE studio / Richard Reynolds / Abanda Abanda

Duct People

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

Spot.io

Team: Pierce Reynoldson, Skanska / Daniel Hambleton / Harrison Yamamoto / Timothy Logan / Radoslav Simeonov / Val Tzvetov

Honeybee Server

Team: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Ladybug