The 2026 programme presents research on housing decisions, AI-assisted design, urban noise, occupancy, recycled materials, acoustics and emergency shelter systems. The conference concludes with a keynote by Professor Christiane M. Herr.
We thank our industry partners Arch Manu, BVN Architecture, Hames Sharley, HDR, Jasmax, Mirvac and Nettletontribe for their collaboration on this year's student research, and PTW for hosting the conference.
Gadigal Country
PTW Sydney
Level 11, 88 Phillip StreetSydney NSW 2000AustraliaSpeaker
Professor Christiane M. Herr
School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology
Speaker profilePresentation schedule.
| Time | Session | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Welcome: Associate Professor Nicole Gardner | 10 min |
| 1:10pm | Amelia Hovilai | 20 min |
| 1:30pm | Haoyue Sun | 20 min |
| 1:50pm | Caitlin Hor | 20 min |
| 2:10pm | Zikang Li | 20 min |
| 2:30pm | Break | 20 min |
| 2:50pm | Sandy Soe | 20 min |
| 3:10pm | Maja Tsuchida | 20 min |
| 3:30pm | Yuhao Jiang | 20 min |
| 3:50pm | Teresa Wang | 20 min |
| 4:10pm | James Petry | 20 min |
| 4:30pm | Break | 10 min |
| 4:40pm | Closing keynote: Professor Christiane M. Herr | 1 hour |
- 01
Industry partner / BVN Architecture
Teaching Buildings to Speak: NABU - Bridging the Gap Between Design Intent and Occupant Reality Through Predictive Occupancy Analytics
Amelia Hovilai
- 02
Industry partner / Nettletontribe
Auralspace — An Immersive Acoustic Design and Material Evaluation Tool
Haoyue Sun
- 03
Industry partner / Jasmax
Waste to Resource: Parametric Structural Design as Compensation for Material Variability in 3D Printed Recycled PET Building Components
Caitlin Hor
- 04
A Computational Design Framework for Road Intersection Data Visualisation and Traffic Congestion Simulation
Zikang Li
- 05
Industry partner / Hames Sharley
Noise To Neighbourhood: exploring urban economic activation through web enabled noise analysis
Sandy Soe
- 06
Industry partner / Arch Manu
Tool Free 3D Printed Connection System for Fast Emergency Shelter Assembly
Maja Tsuchida
- 07
From Image and Text-Based Design Intent to Editable Geometry: A Designer-Led, AI-Assisted Parametric Façade Workflow
Yuhao Jiang
- 08
Industry partner / Mirvac
Integrating Multiple Dimensions for Newcomer Housing Decisions: Design and Evaluation of a Personalised Suburb Scoring System
Teresa Wang
- 09
Industry partner / HDR
AECFlow: A Synthesis Framework for Medium-Agency Agentic Workflow Tools in AEC
James Petry