Stock-conditioned generation of funiciular designs using solver-in-the-loop graph ML. The research was led by Yifan Xie and received a Hangai Prize for IASS 2026.
Work by Arosha Abeyrathna to learn the feasible actuatable geometry space of a bending active system, comparing a proposed physics constrained generation approach (right) with a naïve baseline (left).
Arosha Abeyrathna browsing through a bamboo scaffold dataset.
Edge model predictions by MichellGPT (In collaboration with Daisy Kim & Juney Lee)
Best-fit inverse form-finding with equivariant graph neural network (ed by Dr. Bleker in collaboration with Prof. D’Acunto)
Convergence to two self-stressed designs using the proposed least-squares RFM, while dynamic relaxation exhibits persistent oscillations and local geometric irregularities. (Led by Dr. Zongshuai Wan.)
Sketch2Struct (led by Dr. Bleker, in collaboration with Prof. D’Acunto and Prof. Ochoa).
Text2Struct: Animation showing an initially noisy bridge structure gradually becoming clearer through the diffusion process, converging to the final predicted geometry and forces. Led by Dr. Bleker, in collaboration with Prof. Ochoa and Prof. D’A
Structural optimisation of beam lattice structure according to stiffness-to-weight ratio (with MIT Digital Structures).
Patterns for form-finding 2.5-D shell predicted to be best-fitting for input target geometries (with ETHZ Block Research Group).
World's largest 3D-printed cyanobacteria-based living structure (in collaboration with Andrea Ling, Hamid Peiro, Sukhdevsinh Parmar).
Load testing of beam with optimised lattice geometry (in collaboration with MIT Digital Structures).
Various design decision sequences for optimising an initial 2-D frame layout to minimise material usage, predicted through deep geometric reinforcement learning (with ETHZ Block Research Group).
Designs generated via structurally-informed application of shape grammar rules for 3 different boundary & loading conditions (research led by Ian Jiao).
3D-printed surfboard section with optimised distribution of periodic shell-based meso-structures (with S. Patel).
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