AECtech 2023 LA | Hackathon

Thank you to everyone who attended the AECtech LA Hackathon!

On May 19-21, Woodbury University hosted the first AECtech event in Los Angeles at their Burbank Campus. Over the course of 24 hours over 40 participants, pitched ideas and competed in 7 teams for the Best Overall Hackathon and in a first for AECtech, the Most Sustainable Hackathon. This year featured the most diverse group of hackers from architects, engineers, web developers, programmers, and data scientists to students participating from 5 different universities and even a team of middle school students who put up some real competition!
In addition to the Hackathon, Woodbury University took participants on a tour of the School of Architecture and their 3D printed Solar Decathlon house and HKS gave an inspiring presentation how technology and manufacturing are embedded in their practice.

 
 

The Scene Sculpt team, presenting their stable diffusion integration in Rhino

The Healther team, Our youngest group of hackers ever!

Taking a break to enjoy the beautiful LA spring weather

Getting to know the community at the HKS Happy Hour

Touring the Solar Decathlon house at Woodbury University

 

Hackathon Winners

 

BEST OVERALL HACK

Heat Island Hero

An interactive webpage where users can search and display urban heat island impacts, sensitivity, and future heat impacts data, along with potential buildings in those areas that would be good candidates for adding green roofs in Los Angeles County.

Project 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.

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

 
 
 

MOST Sustainable HACK

Snap Cycle

Scan with augmented reality and object recognition to quickly identify an item. Be informed on how to properly sort and dispose the item for recycling. Learn from recommend alternative materials and gamified rewards to promote sustainable choices.

Project Team | Sophie Moore / CORE studio, Pranay Motta / HMC Architects, Aarin Salot, Franklin Le, Yongtae Park

 

Projects

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

Judges

Hackathon entries were judged by an esteemed panel of industry & academic leaders

Special Thanks

Thank you to the following who made the event possible and a great experience.

Woodbury University School of Architecture | Hosting and Sponsoring the Hackathon.

HKS Architects | Primary Hackathon Sponsor

Morphosis | Event Sponsor

Stantec | Event Sponsor

And a special thank you to Dr. Arash Soleimani, Chair of Design Computation & Applied Computer Science–Media Arts at Woodbury University for coordinating the venue and making the event possible.

And thank you to Luke Lombardi, Senior Sustainability Consultant at Buro Happold for local outreach bringing the event into being.

CORE studio