Adonis Lau

Adonis joined CSALT in Fall 2022 during the fourth year of his BAS and serves as one of two team leaders in the lab as he begins his Master of Architecture. Throughout the summer of 2023 he has become the DfMA and coding leader in the lab under the guidance of Philippe Fleischmann from ETH Zürich who joined CSALT to jump-start our robotics project during a 3-month sabbatical. Adonis excels working in the hybrid space of digital design and fabrication while also learning from other industry and academic collaborators.  He also has experience in institutional and community focused architecture and brings this experience to his work. His software experience using Grasshopper, Python and COMPAS_RRC to automate workflows and his experience in a wide range of design software are strong contributions to the research team. At CSALT he is interested in how emerging digital technologies play a role in design and fabrication and is using the two ABB GoFa CRB 15000 collaborative robots to model processes at scale. His CSALT research is supported through a Mitacs with ABB Robotics, and he heads the North American Center of Excellence for COMPAS_RRC.