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Joanna
Sabak

Architect & computational designer

Based in
London, UK
Currently
Senior Computational Designer, Heatherwick Studio
Studying
@ The Tech Academy

01 About

Computational designer with 9 years of industry experience in geometry processing,
simulation-driven design, and custom tool development.
Specialised in building parametric workflows and lightweight solutions in Grasshopper and Python to support design, analysis, and fabrication across complex projects of any scale. Deep expertise working with emerging technologies for prototyping icluding
AI-driven spatial applications.

Currently training in full stack .NET development to supercharge tooling for AEC.

WorkHeatherwick Studio
EducationM.Arch, Lund University
ToolsetRhino, Grasshopper, Python, Environmental Simulation
Now studyingFull Stack Development with .NET @ The Tech Academy

02 Skills

— Tech Stack

AEC

  • Rhino icon Rhino
  • Grasshopper icon Grasshopper

Backend

  • Python
  • C#
  • .NET

Frontend

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Simulation

  • MIT Cert Sustainable Building Design
  • Simscale
  • LadyBug Tools
  • Ansys

— Hackathons | Talks | Publications

Hacks

AECTECH LONDON, 2026

Data Muncher

Modern live data visualisation inside Rhino

Team with Matea Pinjusic, Naman Patel, María Paula Aranzales, Zeynep Çolak, Hesham Shawqy, Jonathan Wong, Michal Scigaj, Supreeth Vijayakumar

GitHub

AECTECH NY, 2025

S.I.M.O.N.

Spatially Intelligent Model for Object Networks - chat to your LiDAR scan. Image segmentation with semantic extraction, 3D object tagging, 3D chat agent.

Team with Ibtissam Bakchich, Joanna Sabak, Pintian Liu, Akshaya Prabhu, Juan Mosquera, Yashwanth Munukoti, Omar Alomar, Sivaraman Krishnan, Clay Seifert, Vincent Mai

GitHub

AECTECH NY, 2024

Earth to Rhino

Bridge between Cesium, a 3d Geospatial platform, and McNeel's Rhinoceros 3D through Grasshopper.

Team with Paris Nikitidis, Sergey Pigach, Alfredo Chavez, Quoc Dang, Weiting Kong, Jeroen Janssen, Brian Murray, Nico Azel, Jason Yang

GitHub

Publications & Talks

3rd Ybl Conference on the Built Environment

Speaker: Advanced Workflows in Environmental Analysis for Complex Architectural Projects

List of abstracts

SCOSA: AI and the Future of Architectural Education in the UK

Co-author: Human-Centered AI in Design

Read the article

aec+tech

Talk: Technology Implementation Stories

Learn more

Material Computation Research

Co-author: Using potential of emergent 3d printing in dynamic architecture

Learn more

03 Projects

Tree of Life Xian CCBD

Tree of Life Xian CCBD

Hanwha Galleria

Nodeul Island

UCB Windelsham

Hainan Performing Arts Centre

Seoul Biennale

04 Contact

Get in touch for hiring, collaboration or project queries:

jna.sabak@gmail.com