AECademy

A Virtual Time Capsule Accessible by Sketch

Team: Emily Guan (uiux designer), Chenzhang Wang (Backend Engineer), Junling Zhang (Frontend Engineer), Sen Zhang (Backend Engineer), Alan Cation (Presentation)

Result: AEC Tech Hackathon 2023 Honorable Mention

Time: 26 hours

Many of us come from educational backgrounds with minimal overlap between year of classes. Since entering the professional world, we've realized there's a some missing link between professional knowledge and the earlier education. Perhaps you feel this now when you hire a junior engineer and find they lack the skills you expected. If only there was a way to travel back in time and have this knowledge when we were younger.

The mission is to crowdsource knowledge across generations of AEC (Architecture, Engineer, Construction) young graduates — it tailors toward the student community by allowing students and graduates to contribute to their virtual school by submitting models, scripts, notes, renderings, etc.

Any student can find solutions and/or inspiration for their designs by sketching on their mobile device through a QR code provided in their working interface (Rhino or Revit). The Hub will then present the top 5 related contents based on the sketch. After selection, the resource will be integrated back into the working interface (model imported, Grasshopper script opened, etc.).