Research

Notes on AI, geometry, and the craft of building.

Essays, field notes and occasional experiments. Written slowly.

  1. 01

    Machine-readable, then machine-run

    Compressing the dg2n thesis — the AI operating layer for physical retail — into thirty seconds.

  2. 02

    Form-finding with AI: from catenary to catenet

    Using diffusion-based surrogates to explore the shell design space — shortening a week-long topology study into minutes.

  3. 03

    A digital twin for Shwaas

    Monitoring five in-situ shell structures in real time. Temperature, strain, rainfall — and how the data changed the way we pour concrete.

  4. 04

    Ten years of the flexible formwork patent

    A retrospective on WO2016156915A1: what worked, what didn't, and why the next version is generative.

  5. 05

    From plan to massing in one prompt

    A study of how LLMs can operate on architectural plans as a structured medium, not just a picture.

  6. 06

    From the metaverse to the matterverse

    After 100,000 immersive experiences on GMetri, a thesis on why the next decade will bring the virtual back to the physical.

  7. 07

    Fabric forms, revisited

    Weaving formwork directly at site — what Block Research Group documented in 2015, and what we've learned since.