CoDe Conference 2024

Conference theme: Collaborations!

Date & Time: Friday 9th August, 10.30am – 5.30pm+
Location: DesignInc, Level 12/126 Phillip St, Sydney NSW 2000
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The CoDe Conference 2024 presents and celebrates Graduation Research Projects by the final year UNSW Bachelor of Design in Computational Design students who are at the forefront of exploring and developing design technology innovation for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. The 2024 graduation research projects span a range of cutting-edge topics including machine learning for design automation, virtual reality for design decision-support, aspect-based sentiment analysis for urban design, parametric design methods, data validation for BIM, robotic fabrication workflows, and human-robot interaction. UNSW CoDe extend our sincere thanks to the industry collaborators, Aurecon, BVN, COX Architecture, Designlnc, HDR, Metakosmos, Mott MacDonald, and nettletontribe architects, for their expert contributions this year. Industry collaboration is central to supporting our student’s understanding of real-world industry problems and opportunities as well as accelerating design technology research innovation to create positive real-world impact.


Keynote Speaker

Glenda Caldwell

Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a Professor in Architecture and the Academic Lead Research in the School of Architecture & Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology. Glenda is the Associate Director Research Training for the ARC Australian Cobotics Centre and a Chief investigator in the centre’s Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems program of research. She is an architecture and design scholar with internationally recognised expertise in physical, digital, and robotic fabrication, leading Industry 4.0 innovation through human-centred research in human-robot collaboration, design robotics, media architecture, and human-building interaction. 


Schedule

TIME ITEM PRESENTER INDUSTRY PARTNER TITLE
10:30 Arrival of students and conference participants
10:40 – 10:50 Welcome from DesignInc host Paul Wallace
10:50 – 11:00 OPENING REMARKS UNSW Dr Nicole Gardner UNSW Industry-Academia Collaboration for Real-World Change
11:00 – 11:20 Nina Jiaying Lai Metakosmos Under Pressure: A Parametric Design Method for Customising 3D Printed Insoles Using Foot Plantar Pressure Mapping Data
11:20 – 11:40 Vince Bacani nettletontribe architects Visualizing Urban Heat Effects Using Virtual Reality for Design Decision-Support
11:40 – 12:00 Bowen Zhao HDR Evaluating On-Campus Trip Experience Using Image Segmentation Analysis and Microsoft Azure AI Studio
12:00 – 12:20 Jay Hong COX Architecture dataGATE: A data standardisation and validation script for BIM projects using YAML and Pydantic
12:20 – 12:40 Eddie Jiang DesignInc ARMed DI-sign: Automating Revit Material Data Integration for Environmental Impact and Cost Evaluation for Design Projects
12:40 – 13:00 William Li UNSW A Parametric Design Method to Optimise Eco-Friendly Building Insulation Material Selection for Environmental Sustainability
13:00 – 13:20 Max Kennedy Aurecon From Stars to Streets: Developing an Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Tool Using Google Review Data to Understand Community Perspectives on Urban Places
13:20 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK (40 mins)
14:00 – 14:20 Zhang Wang HDR HospitalGNN: Automating the Generation of Floor Plan Layouts for Hospitals Using Graph-Structured Neural Networks
14:20 – 14:40 Carin Morgan DesignInc Automating the Thermal Performance Evaluation of Building Materials in Early-Stage Design: A Grasshopper and Python-based Computational Design Tool
14:40 – 15:00 Hareem Nadeem UNSW Mentor: Belinda Dunstan Emotional Lines: Translating Facial Expressions into Robotic Illustrations Through a Geometric Feature-Based Method
15:00 – 15:20 Rowan Sakoulas Mott MacDonald Soundscape Tuner: Embedding a Parametric Acoustic Simulator in Rhino to Generate Optimised Acoustic Solutions for Interior Spaces
15:20 – 15:40 Louis Lamont BVN The Need for Speed: An Investigation into Parametric Velocity Control for Non-Planar Pellet Based 3D Printing
15:40 – 16:00 Minhui Shen UNSW An Accessible 3D scanning and Printing Workflow for Small-Scale Historic Building Component Restoration
16:00 – 16:20 Rachel Deeb BVN, UNSW Mentor: Kate Dunn Earth Bound: An optimised workflow for 3D Printed Gyroid Forms Using Earthen Materials
16:20 – 16:30 CLOSING & KEYNOTE INTRO Dr Cristina Ramos Jaime UNSW
16:30 – 17:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Professor Glenda Caldwell QUT Meaningful Collaboration: People, Robots, Design
17:30 – 18:30 DRINKS / NETWORKING