DESIGN TEAM
Jesus Guillermo Macias Franco
CCA Bachelor of Architecture, 2024
Kianoush Hamedi
CCA Bachelor of Architecture, 2024
Negar Hosseini
CCA Master of Architecture, 2024
Claire Kokontis
UCSF Graduate Student, Bondy-Denomy lab (Tetrad)
Alex Hong
UCSF Graduate Student, Bondy-Denomy lab (Tetrad)
Miti Chetan Mehta
CCA Master of Architecture, 2024
Camille Moore
UCSF graduate student, Narlikar Lab (Tetrad)
Instructor Team
Margaret Ikeda
Associate Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts. Principal Assembly Architecture
Evan Jones
Adjunct Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts. Principal Assembly Architecture
Negar Kalantar
Co-Director, Digital Craft Lab
Associate Professor, Interior Design and Architecture, California College of the Arts
Dyche Mullins
Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF. Principal Investigator, Mullins Lab
Ali Farajmandi
Advisor
Architectural designer and CCA graduate, specializing in computational design and kinetic structures. With a passion for innovative solutions, Ali thrives in interdisciplinary collaboration. Currently a researcher at Autodesk Technology Center, he brings creative problem-solving to architectural projects, pushing the boundaries of design with expertise in digital crafts and transformable structures.
Anastasia H. Muliana
Advisor
Linda and Ralph Schmidt ’68 Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on understanding physical mechanisms that lead to nonlinear and time-dependent responses in hierarchical structures under multiple stimuli (mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, and light). This includes investigating viscoelastic responses of polymer composites, long-term degradation and life prediction of polymers and composites exposed to harsh environments, deformations of adaptive and flexible composite structures, and biomechanical properties of plant stems. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, and the William Keeler Memorial Award, among others.
Gábor Domokos
Advisor
Professor in the Department of Morphology and Geometric Modeling at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics where he graduated in 1986 as an architect. In 1989 he obtained a PhD in applied mechanics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2007, with Péter Várkonyi he discovered a new geometric shape called Gömböc. After that, his research turned towards the mathematical description of natural shapes. In 2020 he wrote a paper with Doug Jerolmack, Ferenc Kun and János Török discussing Plato’s claim that Earth is made of cubes and showing by geometry by measurements that on average, fragmented rock is actually equivalent to the cube. Recently, Domokos published a preprint with Alain Goriely, Ákos G. Horváth and Krisztina Regős where they identify a new class of shapes called soft cells which tile space without gaps but have no sharp corners. Domokos was visiting professor at Cornell University and a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Prof. Alain Goriely
Advisor
Professor of Mathematical Modelling at the University of Oxford where he is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and a member of Saint Catherine’s College. He is a mathematician with broad interests in mathematical methods, mechanics, sciences, and engineering having authored more than 300 scientific papers and three books. He is well known for his contributions to dynamical systems, mathematical biology, as well as fundamental and applied mechanics. In addition, Alain enjoys scientific outreach based on problems connected to his research, including brain modelling, the mechanics of plants, the shape of seashells, twining plants, umbilical cord and whip cracking. His work has been recognized by a Sloan Fellowship, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Award, the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences and the Engineering Medal from the Society of Engineering Sciences. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022 and Professor of Geometry at the Gresham College in 2024.