Horizontal Stacking
Structurally informed design strategy for reclaimed timber The first iteration explores the performance of an arched shaped beam and its related compression strategy.
HB03: Data-Driven Towers for Human-Nature Coexistence
Explore HB03, a hyperbuilding developed through parametric design, structural engineering, and adaptive façade optimization. Discover a data-driven approach to sustainable vertical urbanism, daylight performance, and human-centric high-rise design. Introduction: Engineering the Skeleton of Vertical Urbanism In the Vertical Machine studio, architecture is treated as a dynamic urban organism rather than a static object. Within this … Read more
Between Ritual and River
Ecological Renewal of Ghats Statement “While industrial and sewage pollution receive significant attention in river conservation efforts. Ritual pollution stemming from religious and cultural practices remains largely unaddressed due to its sensitive nature. But it contributes substantially to river degradation and requires culturally respectful solutions.” Sacred Sites Across every continent and culture, rivers have never … Read more
Urban Quant Tool
Urban Quant is a data‑driven urban design tool delivering area and massing analyses for buildings and open spaces. It calculates Built‑Up Area (BUA), Gross Floor Area (GFA), service/core areas and building levels, integrating solar exposure and sun‑hour simulations. The platform converts regulatory, programmatic, contextual inputs into comparable scenarios, visualizations, and reports for architects. Area distribution … Read more
Façade/gen
Design in Seconds: Rethinking Parametric Architecture with Façade/gen Introduction In the fast-paced world of modern architecture, the earliest stages of a project are the most critical. This is where a building’s identity is forged and its environmental footprint is largely determined. However, for years, high-level parametric design has been gated behind significant barriers: expensive software … Read more
sen.city – Sense urban heat and plant cooler futures for everyone
Cities are warming rapidly, and dense urban centers feel it the most — especially areas with little shade or vegetation. Heat doesn’t affect everyone equally: groups like the elderly, youth, and people with health conditions are far more vulnerable. Problem Statement Most existing tools focus on UTCI, the Universal Thermal Climate Index. It measures how … Read more
FLOW FORM
CONCEPT Double-Skin Façade STRATEGY TO CURVE CURVE ITERATIONS FINAL DESIGN THERMAL SIMULATIONS LOAD APPLICATIONS ROBOTIC FABRICATION Layer Height – 2.0 Clay thickness – 10mm Pressure – 3.95 Nozzle Diameter – 6mm FINAL BLOCK FABRICATION FRAME ASSEMBLY Final Assembly
From One Model to One Million Homes: Automating Social Housing with BIM
Rule-Based BIM Systems for Multi-Storey Residential Blocks in Vietnam Using rule-based BIM master models to automate repetitive social housing design in Vietnam, while addressing real-world challenges of coordination, adoption, and collaboration across large-scale public projects. //CONTEXT Vietnam currently has an ambitious national target to build one million social housing units by 2030. However, progress … Read more
Optimizing For The Mind: Integrating Generative AI and Game Engines into BIM
How architectural neuroimmunology is redefining the relationship between design and human health. The AEC industry optimizes for physical efficiency but neglects the neuro-physiological impact of built environments. This research investigates how Generative AI and Game Engine simulations, integrated into BIM workflows, can enable predictive cognitive performance analysis, transitioning the discipline from Building Information Modeling to … Read more
Community Connections
Trinitat Nova and Trinitat Vella Scavenger Hunt Moving between the neighborhoods of Trinitat Nova and Trinitat Vella in Barcelona, and reaching natural landscapes nearby, like the Collserola hillside or the Besòs River, can already feel a bit like a scavenger hunt. Large highway infrastructures carve through the area, creating barriers that make simple trips … Read more
Behavioral Investment in Urban Decision Making
PROBLEM: Current urban investment decisions, particularly in social housing, are largely based on financial feasibility studies, static socio-economic indicators, and ESG-style metrics that fail to capture how people actually experience and use space and often overlook real-time behavioral dynamics: how people move, engage with space, perceive safety, or interact socially. In dense metropolitan environments like … Read more
M.O.T.H @ Brooklyn Bridge park – New York, USA
The Brooklyn Bridge Park is located along the Brooklyn waterfront of the East River, between DUMBO and Atlantic Avenue, and it spans about 85 acres (0.34 km²), stretching roughly 2 kilometers along the shoreline. That alone makes it one of New York City’s most significant post-industrial waterfront transformations. The park was developed in phases between 2008 … Read more
Business Entrepreneurship
Atticus Cummings MAEBB02 2025/2026 Professor Davide Rovera A startup is a temporary tool for gaining an understanding of a market and business model. In the IAAC business Entrepreneurship Seminar we learned about how to explore a potential startup idea, validate the problem, engage and validate customers, quantify a market opportunity, evaluate competition, fund a startup, … Read more
THE SWALE – Water, Soil & Life
Dhikwani, Rajasthan Dhikwani is a Village in Shahbad Tehsil in Baran District of Rajasthan State, India. It belongs to Kota Division . It is located 67 KM towards East from District head quarters Baran. 16 KM from Shahbad. 279 KM from State capital Jaipur. Dhikwani lies in the semi arid region – high solar radiation, … Read more
