Leo Li (MLA ’16) Built an AI-Enabled Architecture Design Tool, Sand Martin

Date
Aug. 24, 2026

Leo Li (MLA ’16) has started building AI-enabled architecture design tools.

Leo Li smiling in a grey shirt in the Druker Design Gallery

His recent project, Sand Martin, is a Grasshopper plugin and MCP (Model Context Protocol) server designed to bridge the gap between LLM Agents and 3D programming for computational designers and software engineers.

Li hopes Sand Martin will enable designers to build Grasshopper definitions using their favorite language models, contributing to an ecosystem of AI and design.

Learn more about Sand Martin.

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Photo courtesy of Leo Li.

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