Building researcher at Warsaw University of Technology
I study how daylight gets into buildings, and how the rules that are meant to guarantee it actually behave when you test them. Most of that work is computational: parametric studies, climate-based simulation, and fast models that predict daylight without running the simulation.
I trained as an architect, practised for ten years in Denmark and Poland, wrote a PhD on digital methods for building carbon footprint, and spent two years building design software for architects. Daylight is where those threads now meet.
AIE is a one-person studio run by Mateusz Płoszaj-Mazurek, architect, PhD
I build computational design tools for architects and AEC teams: Grasshopper definitions and plugins, configurators, optimization and simulation workflows, and the training that lets your team keep using them.
Warsaw-based, working in English and Polish, remote or on site.
Architect, PhD · Building researcher and computational designer
Building researcher · Daylight, building regulation and computation
Computational designer · Grasshopper, simulation and BIM tooling · Architect, PhD
Product engineer for AEC software · Architect, PhD
Research engineer · Design optimization and surrogate models · Architect, PhD
Architect, PhD · Building regulation and performance · Evaluation for AEC AI
Warsaw, Poland · remote across time zones · mateuszploszajmazurek@gmail.com github.com/Curiosit
Architect with ten years of practice in Denmark and Poland, a PhD in digital design methods and two years building design software for architects. I research daylight and building regulation at Warsaw University of Technology and build computational tools that make building performance part of design, not a check at the end.
Researcher at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. My PhD and the 2020 and 2024 articles in Energies developed machine-learning, parametric and BIM-based methods for low-carbon architectural design. My current work moves the same approach to daylight: fast surrogate models that predict climate-based daylight metrics from geometry, and parametric studies of how daylight requirements perform.
Architect who has taught Grasshopper for seven years and builds the tools around it: plugins, simulation workflows, IFC pipelines and web viewers, for employers and clients in Denmark, Liechtenstein, Finland and Poland. I take a repetitive design task, automate it end to end and hand the team something they can run without me.
Architect with ten years in practice and a PhD in digital design methods, who turns building performance problems into working software. At One Click LCA I built features for Carbon Designer 3D and served as interim product owner, taking the Free Drawing feature from specification to release. I translate building regulations into checkable rules and know which answers a designer can actually use.
I build and evaluate methods that replace expensive building simulation with fast, checkable predictions. My work covers multi-criteria building optimization, surrogate models validated against Radiance, and the benchmark design that decides whether a result is any good. PhD on parametric optimization and machine-learning methods for design; ten years of architectural practice behind the maths.
Ten years of architectural practice in Denmark and Poland, from 100 m² houses to 15,000 m² schools and offices, including Passive House certification. As a researcher I test prescriptive building rules against simulation and build the datasets to do it: task specification and ground-truth design for compliance checking, done by hand before agents existed.
Version: general research computational design
I'm in Warsaw.
Dashed lines: the solstices. Times are local clock time. Your location never leaves this page.
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A small parametric definition: openings grow near the attractor point. Most automation projects start with something like this, then become a tool your team can run.
OmegaFlux predicts useful daylight illuminance point by point from room geometry, using gradient-boosted trees on geometric view descriptors instead of a neural network. It runs in the browser, about two hundred times faster than the Radiance simulation it was trained on.
My PhD (2022) developed digital methods for estimating and reducing the carbon footprint of buildings while they are still being designed. The 2020 and 2024 articles in Energies carry that line: first parametric optimization with machine learning and a convolutional neural network, then language models and BIM data for building assessment tools.
I co-authored Poland's whole-life carbon roadmap for the built environment (2021), and published a workflow that uses a language model to enrich IFC data so large-panel building elements can be reused (2026).
Daylight prediction in milliseconds
Gradient-boosted trees on geometric view descriptors reach R² 0.986 on held-out rooms, about 200× faster than Radiance. On room shapes the model never saw, accuracy drops to R² 0.72: the honest limit of the method, and the subject of the next paper.
Open data, inside Grasshopper
An open-source plugin that pulls environmental product declarations from Germany's public Ökobaudat database straight into a Grasshopper definition.
Carbon footprint, predicted at the sketch
Machine learning, a convolutional neural network and parametric design, combined to estimate and optimise a building's carbon footprint while it is still being drawn.
Language models meet BIM
How machine learning, large language models and BIM data can be merged into assessment tools that architects use during low-carbon design.
Digital methods for the design process
The PhD behind both articles: how parametric tools and machine learning can bring carbon analysis into architectural design, defended at Warsaw University of Technology.
I'm open to collaboration: joint papers, comparative studies across countries, shared datasets and tools. I'm also glad to visit other universities, for a seminar, a guest lecture, a hands-on Grasshopper or daylight workshop, or a longer stay working on a shared question.
Definitions, plugins, configurators and IFC pipelines that take a repetitive design task off your team's desks: massing studies, façade panelling, layout checks, model clean-up and export.
Seven years teaching Grasshopper; Best Mashup Project at AEC Hackathon Copenhagen 2024; IFC web viewer for a Liechtenstein client.
Multi-criteria optimization of geometry and façades, and surrogate models that answer in milliseconds what a simulation answers in minutes.
OmegaFlux: daylight prediction in the browser, validated against Radiance.
Ask about optimizationInsolation checks under the Polish building regulations, EN 17037 assessments and climate-based daylight studies (sDA, ASE, UDI), with the method stated so it survives review.
Ten years of compliance work in practice, including daylight simulation studies with VELUX; OmegaFlux for fast early-stage checks.
Ask about a daylight studyTurning building-code checks and design tasks into specifications, labelled datasets and evaluation criteria your models can be measured against.
Ten years of code compliance in practice; published work on language models for IFC data.
Ask about evaluation workHands-on Grasshopper, parametric and environmental-design workshops for architects and building-product teams, in Polish or English.
Guest lecturer at Saint-Gobain's training sessions for architects (2023); seven years teaching Grasshopper to 400+ students.
Ask about a workshopYou describe the task; I reply with a fixed scope, a price and the method I'll use, before any work starts. Deliverables are files you own: the definition, the plugin, the script or the dataset, documented so your team can run it. Most engagements run between one week and two months.
Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. Ten years of architectural practice at Bjerg Arkitektur in Denmark and Poland, Certified Passive House Designer. Two years building design software for architects at One Click LCA. The research side.
Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology
One Click LCA, Helsinki · remote
enxess, Liechtenstein
Web viewer for IFC models of historical building objects (Three.js, React, TypeScript).
SLAD.AI
Self-funded venture building early-design carbon estimation software; designed, built and tested with users.
Bjerg Arkitektur · Hjørring 2014–16, Warsaw 2016–24
Per-point daylight prediction from geometric view descriptors with gradient-boosted trees, exported to ONNX and run in the browser. Dataset generation, held-out validation against Radiance, transfer to unseen room shapes. curiosit.github.io/OmegaFlux
Led a feature letting architects sketch building massing directly in the browser, from user problem through specification to release.
Browser viewer built with Three.js, React and TypeScript for exploring IFC models of historical building elements.
Short commercial jobs including IFC-to-web implementation.
Grasshopper and scripting tools used in live projects, built end to end; daylight simulation studies for VELUX-related projects.
Co-author, with Alicja Kuczera, of the national roadmap for decarbonising the built environment by 2050.
Grasshopper plugin that reads environmental product declarations from the German Ökobaudat database through its API. MIT licence, published on Food4Rhino. github.com/Curiosit/goeko.gha
No-code web app built from a Grasshopper definition, loading material data from Ökobaudat through an API.
Copenhagen 2023 (SpeckleLCA), Zurich 2024 (InfraWeb), Copenhagen 2024 (OpenDetail, Best Mashup Project).
Workflow using an LLM to enrich IFC data for reuse of large-panel building elements; published with code.
Evolutionary and multi-objective optimization of energy, daylight and carbon in parametric models; taught as a course module.
— citations h-index — Google Scholar
Journal articles
Books, chapters and reports
Conference papers and abstracts
Preprint with code
Built work and professional press
Warsaw University of Technology
Digital methods of supporting the architectural design process and the analysis of the carbon footprint of buildings: parametric optimization and machine-learning methods for design.
Aalborg University, Denmark
Master BIM Software Developer (That Open Company, 2024) · Harvard CS50x (2023) · Certified Passive House Designer
7 years teaching Grasshopper students in Grasshopper courses students a year in the introduction course alone
The workshops I offer are built on the courses I teach at the university, from a first contact with Grasshopper to multi-criteria optimization of energy, daylight and carbon.
Parametric modelling and multi-criteria optimization of energy, daylight and carbon.
Warsaw University of Technology · about 40 students a year
Seminar for fourth- and fifth-year students, including daylight simulation.
Second-year studio on small public architecture; coordinator of the semester-seven lectures on public buildings; English-language Solar Seminar.
Warsaw University of Technology, for teaching achievements in 2021/22.
Faculty classes run remotely, so workshops can be taught online as well as on site.
Co-taught course integrating technical and environmental design.
Workshops, lectures and moderated discussions for architects, building-product companies, developers and the public, in Polish or English.
Training for industry and professionals
Saint-Gobain · two sessions, Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska and Żnin, October 2023
Proptech Foundation · development programme for managers implementing ESG strategy with digital tools
Lublin, 13 April 2023
Panels and moderation
IV International Conference Architecture of Challenges: Experiment in Space, Warsaw, 29–30 June 2026
III International Conference Architecture of Challenges: New European Bauhaus – Building Community, Warsaw, 30 June – 1 July 2025
PLGBC Green Building Summit
Building & Human Summit, Łódź, March 2024
Webinar, Proptech Foundation, 13 December 2023
III Kongres Regeneracja Miast, Łódź, 31 May 2023
Młodzi do Łodzi, conference of Architektura-Murator, Łódź, 26–27 May 2023
Miasta Przyszłości, 4th edition, online
Webinar with PLGBC, EBRD and WorldGBC, 9 June 2021
8th Green Building Symposium, PLGBC
Invited talks
22nd Warsaw Art Fair (Warszawskie Targi Sztuki)
Carbon Experts Summit 2025
V Dzień Stali, BUDUJ ZE STALI, Warsaw, 28 November 2023
VII Forum Holzbau Polska, Jachranka, 25–26 April 2023
Mistrzowie Krajobrazu 2023, online, 21 April 2023
Kongres Regeneracja Miast, Łódź, June 2022
Sztuka Architektury, online, 27 May 2021
Conference presentations
Architecture of Challenges IV, Warsaw
Architecture of Challenges IV, Warsaw
Young Scientist Forum, 200 years of Warsaw University of Technology
Redefining Cities in View of Climatic Changes, Warsaw, 7–8 December 2023
International Conference on Structures and Architecture
iiSBE Forum of Young Researchers in Sustainable Building, Prague, 1 July 2019
Redefining Cities in View of Climatic Changes, Warsaw, 20–21 November 2019
Circular economy in architecture: reuse of prefabricated elements and digital design techniques · Warsaw University of Technology, CPR-IDUB/238/Z01/2024
AEC Hackathon, Copenhagen
Warsaw University of Technology, academic year 2022/23
Warsaw University of Technology, academic year 2021/22
Winning entry by Studio Widoki, with Bjerg Arkitektur as consultant
Carbon footprint calculations by Bjerg Arkitektur: prefabricated timber, about 6 kg CO₂e/m² per year over 50 years
Passive House kindergarten in Podkowa Leśna, Bjerg Arkitektur; award received on behalf of the practice. Also a distinction for an educational building.
Innowator Mazowsza competition
Special issue on performance-responsive architecture and urban design
Energy and Buildings, Automation in Construction, Buildings, Energies, Architecture, Digital
National competition for the best pro-environmental diploma project; judge-rapporteur in 2025
Organising committee, Architecture of Challenges IV (2026); scientific and organising committees, Redefining Cities in View of Climatic Changes (2023)
Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, five volumes, two co-edited with A. Grabowska
Doctoral candidate at Warsaw University of Technology