As I mentioned last week, on Friday I headed across to this year’s AEC Hackathon Zurich Edition in the city of Winterthur, about 2 hours from my home.
The event was held in one of the buildings on the ZHAW campus.
The space was fantastic: an old factory that was once used to maintain trains (it’s just next to the train tracks going through Winterthur).
I was only able to come for the first evening of the weekend's event, as I had a prior personal commitment during the rest of the weekend.
Friday had a number of talks focused on the use of open source in the AEC industry. One of these talks was given by Tom Van Mele, who I’ve known for many years through his work at the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich.
Tom talked about some of the projects developed using the BRG’s open source technology, which included the NEST building in Dübendorf.
Later on in the evening was the official opening of the AEC Hackathon. My old friend Damon Hernandes – who I've now known for a decade,…