AAG 2025

PROGRAM

Workshops + Tours

Sunday, November 16
9:00am Workshops and Tours Welcome, MIT Room 45-230
9:30am Workshops and Tours Begin (locations sent to particpants directly)
12:30pm Workshops and Tours Lunch, MIT Building 45 Lobby
1:30pm Workshops and Tours (cont'd)
6:00pm Day 1 End

Monday, November 17
9:00am Workshops and Tours (cont'd)
12:00pm Workshops and Tours Lunch, MIT Building 45 Lobby
1:00pm Workshops and Tours (cont'd)
5:00pm Workshops and Tours Wrapup Discussion, MIT Room 45-230
6:30pm Welcome Reception and introductory remarks with Janet Echelman at the MIT Museum, Registration open

Symposium

Tuesday, November 18
MIT Building 45 8th floor

8:00am Coffee and registration open
8:30am Welcome remarks
Presented by MIT hosts and AAG 2025 Organizing Committee
9:00am Keynote: Mike 'Yi Min' Xie
Introduced by Caitlin Mueller
9:45am Paper Session 1 – Structure and Equilibrium
Chaired by John Ochsendorf
Equilibrium of Maya Arches with Thrust Line Analysis Rafael Pastrana, Ricardo Maia Avelino, Laura Gilabert Sansalvador and Sigrid Adriaenssens Merged Force Diagrams for Expanded Tension-Compression Design Space in Polyhedral Graphic Statics Hua Chai, Yao Lu, Yefan Zhi and Masoud Akbarzadeh Kinetic Bases: A Tool for Moving Massive Architectural Elements Caroline Amstutz, Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini Structure and Fabrication-Informed Inlay Placement for CNC-Knitted Membranes Using Topology-Based Segmentation Niclas Brandt, Valentin Lorenzen da Silva, Nikoletta Christidi, Tim Pat McGinley and Mariana Popescu 10:45am Coffee break
11:15am Paper Session 2 – Deployables, Origami, and Lightweight Shells
Chaired by Iman Fayyad
Double-Layered Elastic Gridshells with Locally Deployable Rotational-Surface Components Yuanpeng Liu, Seiichi Suzuki, Florin Isvoranu and Mark Pauly Topological Generation of Woven Nodes for Double-Layered Elastic Gridshells Built from Deployable Cylindrical Components Hong-Bin Yang, Seiichi Suzuki and Mark Pauly Interactive Curved Crease Origami Design Through Constructive Developable Subdivision Klara Mundilova, Erik Demaine and Tomohiro Tachi Geometric Design and Deployment Analysis for Triangulated Auxetic Surfaces with Offsets Kazuki Hayashi, Ren Nagatomo and Romain Mesnil CNets: An Interactive Design Framework for Cone-Nets Klara Mundilova, Michele Vidulis, Quentin Becker, Florin Isvoranu and Mark Pauly 12:30pm Keynote: Kathrin Dörfler
Introduced by Caitlin Mueller
1:15pm Lunch
2:15pm Paper Session 3 - Space, Movement, and AI
Chaired by Konstantinos Gavriil
From Constraints to Configurations – An Integer Linear Programming Approach for Architectural Space-Planning Francisco Aristi Reina, Marios Tsiliakos, Marcin Kosicki, Chau Nguyen and Martha Tsigkari Geometry-Aware Prediction of Human Movement via Machine Learning Conor Black Agentic Large Language Model Framework for Parametric NURBS Geometry Generation in Computational Design Anirudha Agara A Spatial-Temporal Graph Model for Architecture with Applications in Adaptive Reuse and Generative Design Robbe Pacquée and Mario Rinke Synthetic Vision: Recovering Latent Geometry in Architectural Heritage Fragments Clay Seifert and Patrick Danahy StructDiff: Discrete Graph Diffusion for Constraint Guided Structure Generation Karl Ahlund and Christopher Robeller 3:45pm Panel: 50 years of NURBS
Moderated by Jonathan Rabagliati
4:45pm Coffee break (ends at 5:30pm)
6:00pm Public Keynote: Lucas Epp
Presented as Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design in MIT Room 10-250, Introduced by Caitlin Mueller and Jonathan Rabagliati

Wednesday, November 19
MIT Building 45 8th floor

8:00am Coffee and registration open
8:30am Paper Session 4 – Pattern, Tesselation, Performance, and Manufacturability
Chaired by Jonathan Rabagliati
The Geometry of Water: Shaping Terracotta for Evaporative Cooling in Urban Heat Islands Michelle Lee, Pamela Cabrera and Ryan Maruyama Two Methodologies for Vertical Shading Applications Using Architectural Terracotta Gustav Fagerstrom, Justin Brammer and Kevin Kunnappilly Aperiodic Space-Filling Geometry as a Spatial Logic Claire Djang and Stefano Arrighi Adaptive Tile-Based Generation of a Perforated Façade: A Case Study on the UBS Bank in Monaco Mario Di Sibio and Tristan Israel From Massing to Façade: A Realised Case Study of the Design of a Complex, Irregular Plan and Façade to Achieve Efficiencies in Manufacturing and Assembly Chau Nguyen, Marcin Kosicki, Wojciech Karnowka and Adam Davis 9:45am Coffee Break
10:15am Keynote: Meejin Yoon
Introduced by Iman Fayyad
11:00am Paper Session 5 - Timber Assemblies: Design, Construction, Reuse
Chaired by Caitlin Mueller
The Universal Timber Slab: Towards Optimal Slab Segmentation and Fiber arrangement strategies in compact and material efficient mass timber structures Hans Jakob Wagner, Gregor Neubauer, Martin Alvarez, Renan Prandini, Tim Stark, Jan Knippers and Achim Menges Reclaimed Design: An Availability-Oriented Structural Design Method for Reclaimed Lumber Gonzalo Muñoz Guerrero, Clara P. Blum, Laura Marsillo, Tzu-Ying Chen, Zuardin Akbar, Jan Knippers and Thomas Wortmann A Computational Framework for Designing Structurally-Sound and Fabrication-Aware Layouts of Modular Timber Assemblies Zhenxiang Huang, Nils Opgenorth, Jiayi Kayee Li, Jonas Mertens, Hans-Jakob Wagner and Achim Menges Harvard West Commons Skylight – Evolution of Nodal Approaches to Single Layer Shell Design in Timber Structures Florian Meier, Christian Rieser and James McDonagh A Computational Framework for Assembly-Driven Recursive Generation and Geometric Optimization of Reciprocal Frame Structures Shaohan Wang and Yasushi Ikeda 12:15pm Workshop highlights
Chaired by Jonathan Rabagliati
12:45pm Lunch
1:15pm Paper Session 6 – Computational Making: Printing and Material Experiments
Chaired by Konstantinos Gavriil
Continuous Path Planning: Thin-Walled 3D Printing of Non-Manifold Geometries for Architectural Applications Jutang Gao and Wes McGee Zip-Form Geometry of Fabrication-Aware Curved Beams Edmund Harriss and Emily Baker Ghost Tectonics: Printing Tailored Fibre Composites Roland Snooks, Alan ‘Ho Kyeong’ Kim, Phillip Crothers, Axel Spickenheuer and Stuart Bateman Expanding Shaping Variability in Frustrated Clay Ofri Dar, Hagar Ofek, Eran Sharon and Arielle Blonder 2:15pm Panel: Geometry Past and Future
Moderated by Iman Fayyad
3:15pm Closing remarks
AAG 2025 Organizing Committee and others
3:45pm Coffee break
4:30pm Shared Keynote with SCF: Helmut Pottmann
In MIT Room 45-230, Introduced by Konstantinos Gavriil
5:30pm Closing Reception and shared AAG/SCF poster session
In MIT Building 45 Lobby