CV - Maria Eugenia Villafane
EDUCATION
2019-Ongoing Imperial College London – PhD Candidate. Thesis: Multimodal image registration of Old Masters Paintings, in collaboration
with National Gallery London. Supervisors: Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College) and Dr. Catherine Higgitt (National Gallery)
2010-2008 Architectural Association School of Architecture – AADRL (Design Research Laboratory) – Distinction.
2008-2005 Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Buenos Aires – Civil Engineering (completed 2.5 years of a 6-year degree).
2006-2001 Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires – FADU/UBA – Bachelor of Architecture.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Generation of geometric interpolations of building types with deep Variational Autoencoders - Design Science Journal,
Cambridge University Press - https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2020.31
2019 Deep Form Finding. Geometry interpolation with variational autoencoders, ECAADE Porto 2019,
http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/ecaadesigradi2019_514
2017 Chadstone Gridshell Roof – IABSE Bath 2017
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317582675_PLATO_-_Gridshell_Design_Method_for_Chadstone_Shopping_Mall_Roof
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Computational Designer at Sofia Project. Code development for structural engineering geometry and geometry interpolation with
deep learning models.
2018-2011 Architect / Computational Designer at Atelier One.
Rationalization of free-form 3d-geometries for structural analysis and fabrication.
Code development -Python, VB, C#, Processing- for deliverables to output in 3d CAD platforms - Rhinoceros + Grasshopper.
Algorithms developed included: Tessellation of doubly-curved surfaces, Extraction of discretised wireframes for analysis,
Planarity optimisation methods, Form-finding catenary surfaces for gridshells, façade envelopes and general structural strategies.
2010 ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit – parametric 3D modelling and 2D
documentation for Orbit Arcelor Mittal Tower.
AWARDS
2018 ICSC Asia Pacific Shopping Centre Award - Chadstone Gridshell Roof (winner) - https://buchangroup.com/news/4259/
2017 ISTRUCTE Structural Awards 2017 - Chadstone Gridshell Roof (shortlist)
https://www.istructe.org/structuralawards/previously-shortlisted/construction-innovation/2017/chadstone-shopping-centre-melbourne
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 Advances in Architectural Geometry - AAG workshop 6: Deep Form Finding. Geometry interpolation with variational autoencoders
http://www.architecturalgeometry.org/aag18/workshop-6-deep-form-finding/
2015-2019 The Bartlett, UCL - Open classes - Structural analysis for data driven geometry (Karamba/Grasshopper/Rhinoceros)
2014-2018 The Bartlett, UCL - Design Realization for Diploma Unit 20, engineering consultancy focusing on computational geometry.
2015-2013 Universidad de Sevilla - Forma13 workshop Data visualization. http://forma.culturadigital.cc/es/portada
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
Python General language and dataframes (OpenCV, Numpy, Scikit, Pandas)
Keras / Tensorflow Deep Learning models, focus on Variational Autoencoders.
C++ / C# / VB Code development applied to tessellations, general algorithmic geometry
Processing (programming language for data visualisation) Code development for Chadstone Gridshell Roof – from pointcloud to final form of built roof
About us
CV
Structural Engineering Geometry
Image Processing
Geometry Interpolation / AAG 2018
Publications
Contact
Sofia Project