2024.
NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: Snail Rendering

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

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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

Team: 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 developed during the 2024 AECTech Hackathon. We created a solution 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.

Team: Nehansh Saxena / SLAM, Frank (Xu) Li / Saiful Bouquet, Omid Sajedi / 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

Team: 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.

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 + 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.

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 / 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.

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, 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 / 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 go.

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

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

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

Revilations

Team: Leland Curtis / SmithGroup, Mike Kero / CORE studio, Hiram Rodriguez / CORE studio, Hanshen Sun / Pratt, Fathy Gad / Dar Group

Robotic IoT

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

DGBash

Team: Leland Jobson / CORE studio

Hydrashare 2.0

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

Shuffle

Team: Ye Wang / Join, Kyle Martin / Tocci, Osmany Cabrera, Andres Carter, Michael Breau

Airflow Network Visualizer

Team: Tamaho Shigemura / Algorithm Design Lab, Hiroyoshi Satake

Ladybug Vizzz!

Team: Chris Mackey / Ladybug

2016.NYC

Revit Dynamo JSON

Team: Eric Boehlke

Tango Go

Team: Charlies Portelli, Jared Friedman, Michael Kero

Design Generator - Try it out!

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

3D Print and Revit

Team: Santiago Garay, Chris Winkler, Youngjin Lee, Yueying Cui

BEnMap

Team: Andrew Salveson, Margaret Wang, Chris Mackey, Saeran Vasanthakumar

2015.NYC

BEST OVERALL HACK: docQR - Try it out!

Team: Matt Mason, Nick Mattise, Josh Wentz, Jonatan Schumacher, Charlies Portelli, Maximilian Thumfart, Irmak Turan

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

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

BEST COLLABORATION/OPEN SOURCE: Slackit

Team: Ben Muller

Skinventor

Team: Daniel Inocente, Matthew Noe