Elena Vazquez, Ph.D.
Alum: Ph.D. in Architecture (Collaborator)
Elena Vazquez is a computational designer, researcher, and educator. Her work focuses on smart materials for adaptive buildings, and it has been supported by the American Institute of Architects Upjohn Research Initiative Grant and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium. Her interdisciplinary research bridges material science and computational design and has won awards such as the 2023 ARCC Dissertation Award, and the 2022 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award. Elena holds a Ph.D. in Architecture, a Master of Science in Architecture, and a graduate certificate in Additive Manufacturing from Penn State.
Contact: elena.vazquez@umu.se
Personal Website: umu.se/en/staff/elena-vazquez
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Vazquez, E., Gürsoy, B. , & Duarte, J. P. (2019). Formalizing Shape-Change: Three-dimensional Printed Shapes and Hygroscopic Material Transformations. International Journal of Architectural Computing.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1478077119895216Vazquez, E., & Gürsoy, B. (2020). 3D Printed Responsive Wood Interfaces: Shape-Changing Origami-Inspired Prototypes. Transformative Design - Proceedings of the 24th SIGraDI 2020 International Conference. (84th), (pp. 600-607).
Vazquez, E., Gürsoy, B., & Duarte, J. P.(2019). Designing For Shape-Change: A Case study on 3D Printing Composite Materials for Responsive Architectures. In M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (Eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference (2), (pp. 391-400).
Vazquez, E., Diarte, J., & Gürsoy, B. (2018). Bridging Parametric Design and Craftsmanship. Learning, Prototyping and Adapting - Short Paper Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference.
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Vazquez, E., & Gürsoy, B. (2020). 3D Printed Responsive Wood Interfaces: Shape-Changing Origami-Inspired Prototypes. Presented at SIGraDI 2020 International Conference. (online)
Vazquez, E., Gürsoy, B., & Duarte, J. P.(2019). Designing For Shape-Change: A Case study on 3D Printing Composite Materials for Responsive Architectures. Presented at CAADRIA 2019 Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Vazquez, E., Diarte, J., & Gürsoy, B. (2018). Bridging Parametric Design and Craftsmanship. Presented at the CAADRIA 2018 Conference, Beijing, China.