Each project represents a significant area of research and lists associated published papers.
Research Themes
Architectural Design
Autodesk @ MaRS
Autodesk @ MaRS
For the design of a new office and research space in the MaRS Innovation District...
Princeton Laboratory for Embodied Computation
Princeton Laboratory for Embodied Computation
The Laboratory for Embodied Computation is a simple but futuristic building hosting research on the...
Amphibious Envelope
Amphibious Envelope
Amphibious Envelope is an experimental building facade system that re-imagines the insulated glazing unit as...
Hy-Fi
Hy-Fi
Hy-Fi is a 13-meter-tall tower constructed from a new low-energy biological building material that offers...
Black Lake
Black Lake
Black Lake is a ten-minute song from Bjork’s new album 'Vulnicura' and the culmination of...
Building Science
Building Simulation
Building Simulation
Buildings are responsible for 48% of all Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. We aim to...
Project Dasher
Project Dasher
Project Dasher is an Autodesk research project using a BIM-based platform to provide building owners...
Digital 210 King
Digital 210 King
We are creating a high-quality Building Information Model of our offices in Toronto. Our goal...
CAD for Life Sciences
Nanodesign
Nanodesign
Design at the nanoscale. In collaboration with world-class researchers and industry experts, Project NanoDesign aims...
Genetic Constructor
Genetic Constructor
Genetic Constructor is an extensible, open source, cloud CAD tool to drive biological design and...
Molecule Viewer
Molecule Viewer
Explore the unseen world. Autodesk Research Molecule Viewer is a web-based 3D tool optimized for...
BiomeView
BiomeView
Using a mash-up of architecture, genomics, and microbial ecology Jessica Green an engineer, bio diversity...
4D Printing
4D Printing
Skylar Tibbits, an MIT Researcher, architect, designer, computer scientist and TED Senior Fellow, is working...
Project Cyborg
Project Cyborg
Project Cyborg is a cloud-based meta-platform of design tools for programming matter across domains and...
Bio Computational Evolution: The Next Generation of Software for Synthetic Biology
Bio Computational Evolution: The Next Generation of Software for Synthetic Biology
In this project, David Benjamin explored a pioneering intersection between synthetic biology, architecture, and computation...
nTinker: Design and Visualization Tool for Biological Engineering of Multi-cell Systems
nTinker: Design and Visualization Tool for Biological Engineering of Multi-cell Systems
If mathematical models of biological cells can be represented in a way that captures the...
CADnano 2.0. CAD for DNA Origami
CADnano 2.0. CAD for DNA Origami
The George Church Lab from the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Autodesk Research are co-developing...
BioweatherMap at TED Global
BioweatherMap at TED Global
With the emergence of BioweatherMaps, we will one day be able to find out more...
Clotho. Application Platform for Synthetic Biology
Clotho. Application Platform for Synthetic Biology
Clotho assists scientists and engineers in the performance of synthetic biology projects. Most importantly, Clotho...
Computational Medicine
Computational Anatomy and Biomechanics
Computational Anatomy and Biomechanics
Computational anatomy incorporates the use of geometric- and statistics-based mathematical techniques to analyze and understand...