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The Thoughts

  1. behavior information modelingJAN 2026For thirty years we've been getting very good at Building Information Modeling: every beam, every duct, every clash, tracked to the millimeter.
  2. neuroaestheticsDEC 2025Neuroaesthetics is the unglamorous name for a question everyone already feels: why does one room settle you and another keep you on edge?
  3. physics solversAPR 2026A physics solver is the most honest collaborator I have: it doesn't care what I intended, only what I actually built.
  4. generative aiJUN 2024Generative AI made the inspired gesture free. Anyone can produce a thousand renders before lunch, and a render is a promise, not a product.
  5. extended realitySEP 2022I started in a lab strapping headsets onto students to see whether a lesson lands harder when you can walk around inside it.
  6. comfort as dataMAY 2026You don't walk into a room and average your experience. You walk in and the thing that's wrong is the thing you notice: the glare, the echo, the cold draft on the back of your neck.
  7. drawing as interfaceMAR 2026For most of my life the drawing was the output. You designed the thing, then you drew it to prove it existed.
  8. evolutionary searchNOV 2025Evolutionary search is what I reach for when a problem is too tangled to solve head on: describe what good looks like, then let a population of designs breed, mutate, and compete until something clever falls out.
  9. heritage meets new techAPR 2026The usual choice with an old building is a trap: treat it as a museum piece no one may touch, or drop a glass-and-steel box in the middle and call it modern.
  10. buildings that respondJUN 2026Right now a building is a fixed guess. Someone chose the ceiling height and the window size years before you arrived, and you live inside their averaged assumptions whether they fit you or not.
  11. connecting the dotsJUN 2020When the art class was asked who here dislikes drawing, mine was the only hand that went up. Awkward.
  12. pelagñouJUN 2026Some projects hand you a tool; Pelagñou handed me a library card.
  13. explaining thingsJUL 2026How do you explain a complex, honestly boring technical subject so someone leans in instead of glazing over?
  14. adjacency is not accessJUN 2026A floor plan tells you which rooms touch. It will not tell you which rooms you can actually reach, and the gap between those two drawings is where the architecture is hiding.

Data into Geometry

RESEARCH

How do you turn a spreadsheet into Revit geometry you can stand inside?

The data team does not produce geometry, so we turned the numbers into it: KPIs you can stand inside the Revit model and see.

MACAD BIM · DATA TEAM OF 3

RHINO.INSIDE REVIT · GRASSHOPPER · SPECKLE

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WHAT

On Hyperbuilding 01, the Santiago megastructure studio, the data team does not generate architectural geometry, and that was the problem: if we do not produce geometry, how can our work be read spatially inside the model? We built Rhino.Inside Revit workflows that turn the studio’s performance metrics into parametric Revit families, so thermal comfort, acoustic impact, and air purification become visible components of the architecture. The same data team of three as The Lungs, shared end to end: María Sánchez Domínguez, Lakzhmy Mari Zaro, and me.

WHY

Numbers in a spreadsheet do not change a design meeting; geometry in the model does. Making the KPIs legible exactly where the architects already look closes the gap between analysis and decision.

HOW

  1. Bring the studio’s models and KPI data together through Speckle.
  2. Drive parametric Revit families from Grasshopper via Rhino.Inside, shared parameters carrying the analysis results into the model.
  3. Automate the views, sheets, and filters, so the model documents itself as RVT, IFC, and PDF.

WHAT CAME OF IT

The model ends up both design artifact and data visualization: the building’s performance indicators are components you can see, not rows you have to believe. The workflow carried across the studio’s teams through Speckle.