Thoughts | Emilie El Chidiac

connecting the dots (thought, 2020-06) Open it
- Led to: drawing as interface, physics solvers, explaining things, neuroaesthetics.
Research Assistant · LAU XR Lab · Byblos (milestone, 2021-09)
Self-employed practice opens (milestone, 2022-01)
Falcon Square (project, 2022-04) Open it
- Led to: drawing as interface.
Shortlisted finalist · The Cemetery Challenge (award, 2022-06) Open it
- Led to: The Encounter.
The Encounter (project, 2022-06) Open it
- Grew out of: Shortlisted finalist · The Cemetery Challenge.
XR for Education (project, 2022-06) Open it
- Led to: extended reality.
extended reality (thought, 2022-09) Open it
- Grew out of: XR for Education.
- Led to: comfort as data, experiences are data, explaining things, latent space, Verve City Walk.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: when the tool scores people.
B.ARCH · LAU · Dean's Distinction (milestone, 2023-06)
The Homage (project, 2023-06) Open it
- Grew out of: Tamayouz Excellence · Top 100 graduation projects.
- Led to: heritage meets new tech.
Design Architect · SOMA · Dubai | Beirut (milestone, 2023-08)
Tamayouz Excellence · Top 100 graduation projects (award, 2023-09) Open it
- Led to: The Homage.
Rings of Mars: Ring 4000 (project, 2023-10) Open it
- Grew out of: Top 50 · Marsception (Ring 4000).
- Led to: generative ai.
generative ai (thought, 2023-12) Open it
- Grew out of: Rings of Mars: Ring 4000.
- Led to: drawing as interface, evolutionary search, lEgoarCh, what an llm actually is, latent space.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: computation.
Verve City Walk (project, 2024-02) Open it
- Grew out of: extended reality.
Licensed architect · Order of Engineers and Architects · Beirut (milestone, 2024-03)
Top 50 · Marsception (Ring 4000) (award, 2024-03) Open it
- Led to: Rings of Mars: Ring 4000.
Design Technologist · Dynamic Solution · Kuwait (milestone, 2024-08)
IAAC Global Summer School · Circular Construction · Barcelona (milestone, 2025-07)
what an llm actually is (thought, 2025-09) Open it
- Grew out of: generative ai.
- Led to: Sensi, latent space, computation, experiences are data.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: drawing as interface, lEgoarCh.
MaCAD begins · IAAC · Beirut > Barcelona (milestone, 2025-10)
Astroidal Ellipsoid (project, 2025-10) Open it
- Grew out of: computation.
A Playscape (project, 2025-10) Open it
- Grew out of: computation.
- Led to: physics solvers.
computation (thought, 2025-10) Open it
- Grew out of: what an llm actually is.
- Led to: lEgoarCh, evolutionary search, physics solvers, The Huddle, Cappelletti Pavilion, A Ballooning Market, A Playscape, drawing as interface, Astroidal Ellipsoid, adjacency is not access.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: generative ai, heritage meets new tech, latent space.
physics solvers (thought, 2025-11) Open it
- Grew out of: evolutionary search, Cappelletti Pavilion, A Playscape, Chair Simulation, connecting the dots, computation.
- Led to: A Ballooning Market, heritage meets new tech.
Chair Simulation (project, 2025-11) Open it
- Led to: physics solvers.
Cappelletti Pavilion (project, 2025-11) Open it
- Grew out of: computation, evolutionary search.
- Led to: physics solvers.
evolutionary search (thought, 2025-11) Open it
- Grew out of: generative ai, computation.
- Led to: physics solvers, Tsukiji Fish Market, Cappelletti Pavilion, when the tool scores people, comfort as data.
A Ballooning Market (project, 2025-12) Open it
- Grew out of: computation, physics solvers, heritage meets new tech.
The Huddle (project, 2025-12) Open it
- Grew out of: computation, Studio award · ACESD (The Huddle).
- Led to: heritage meets new tech.
Tsukiji Fish Market (project, 2025-12) Open it
- Grew out of: evolutionary search.
heritage meets new tech (thought, 2025-12) Open it
- Grew out of: The Huddle, The Homage, physics solvers.
- Led to: Narkomfin as a Graph, A Ballooning Market.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: computation.
neuroaesthetics (thought, 2025-12) Open it
- Grew out of: connecting the dots.
- Led to: Sensi, Optimizing for the Mind, behavior information modeling, buildings that respond, experiences are data.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: comfort as data, when the tool scores people, explaining things.
behavior information modeling (thought, 2026-01) Open it
- Grew out of: neuroaesthetics.
- Led to: NeuroSpace, comfort as data, Data into Geometry, Sensi, when the tool scores people, buildings that respond, adjacency is not access, explaining things.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: experiences are data, drawing as interface.
Optimizing for the Mind (project, 2026-01) Open it
- Grew out of: neuroaesthetics.
- Led to: explaining things.
NeuroSpace (project, 2026-02) Open it
- Grew out of: behavior information modeling.
- Led to: when the tool scores people, drawing as interface.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: explaining things, Sensi.
drawing as interface (thought, 2026-03) Open it
- Grew out of: generative ai, connecting the dots, computation, NeuroSpace, Falcon Square.
- Led to: Sensi, explaining things.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: behavior information modeling, lEgoarCh, what an llm actually is, when the tool scores people.
Data into Geometry (project, 2026-03) Open it
- Grew out of: behavior information modeling.
The Lungs (project, 2026-03) Open it
- Grew out of: Studio award · BIMSC (The Lungs).
- Led to: buildings that respond.
latent space (thought, 2026-04) Open it
- Grew out of: generative ai, what an llm actually is, extended reality.
- Led to: lEgoarCh, adjacency is not access.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: computation.
when the tool scores people (thought, 2026-04) Open it
- Grew out of: NeuroSpace, evolutionary search, behavior information modeling.
- Led to: comfort as data, Encoding Urban Risk, buildings that respond, Sensi, experiences are data, adjacency is not access, explaining things.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: neuroaesthetics, drawing as interface, extended reality.
Encoding Urban Risk (project, 2026-04) Open it
- Grew out of: when the tool scores people.
- Led to: adjacency is not access.
lEgoarCh (project, 2026-05) Open it
- Grew out of: generative ai, latent space, computation, Jury award · MaCAD Generative AI (lEgoarCh).
- Led to: explaining things.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: drawing as interface, what an llm actually is.
experiences are data (thought, 2026-05) Open it
- Grew out of: comfort as data, extended reality, what an llm actually is, neuroaesthetics, when the tool scores people.
- Led to: Sensi, buildings that respond.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: behavior information modeling.
comfort as data (thought, 2026-05) Open it
- Grew out of: behavior information modeling, when the tool scores people, extended reality, evolutionary search.
- Led to: Sensi, buildings that respond, experiences are data.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: neuroaesthetics, explaining things.
Narkomfin as a Graph (project, 2026-05) Open it
- Grew out of: heritage meets new tech.
- Led to: adjacency is not access.
Sensi (project, 2026-06) Open it
- Grew out of: neuroaesthetics, comfort as data, experiences are data, what an llm actually is, behavior information modeling, drawing as interface, when the tool scores people, MaCAD Awards 2026 · Design Copilots · winner (Sensi).
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: buildings that respond, explaining things, NeuroSpace.
adjacency is not access (thought, 2026-06) Open it
- Grew out of: latent space, Narkomfin as a Graph, Encoding Urban Risk, behavior information modeling, computation, when the tool scores people.
buildings that respond (thought, 2026-06) Open it
- Grew out of: neuroaesthetics, comfort as data, behavior information modeling, when the tool scores people, experiences are data, The Lungs.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: Sensi.
Studio award · ACESD (The Huddle) (award, 2026-06) Open it
- Led to: The Huddle.
Jury award · MaCAD Generative AI (lEgoarCh) (award, 2026-06) Open it
- Led to: lEgoarCh.
Studio award · BIMSC (The Lungs) (award, 2026-06) Open it
- Led to: The Lungs.
MaCAD Year 1 complete · the technical year (milestone, 2026-06)
MaCAD Awards 2026 · Design Copilots · winner (Sensi) (award, 2026-06) Open it
- Led to: Sensi.
explaining things (thought, 2026-07) Open it
- Grew out of: Optimizing for the Mind, lEgoarCh, connecting the dots, extended reality, drawing as interface, when the tool scores people, behavior information modeling.
- Not joined to, but shares connections with: comfort as data, neuroaesthetics, NeuroSpace, Sensi.
emiliechidiac.com goes live (milestone, 2026-07)

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