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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.

Rings of Mars: Ring 4000

PRACTICETOP 50 @ VOLUME ZERO (opens in new tab)

How do you design a habitat for Mars?

An early bet that generative tools belonged on an architect's desk, back when that still raised eyebrows.

MARSCEPTION COMPETITION · WITH CHARLES ABI CHAHINE

RHINO · SUBD · AI WORKFLOWS · V-RAY

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WHAT

A habitat ring for Mars, a two-person competition entry with Charles Abi Chahine. Ring 4000 sits in the rim of a crater inside Valles Marineris: a 3D printed regolith shell holding farming, research, living pods and a transportation ring in one closed loop, with the long game that every crater gets its own ring until the rings are a community. It placed in Marsception’s Top 50.

WHY

The craters are the site Mars already gives you, so the ring takes their shape instead of fighting it. And a ring suits everything a habitat needs: the ecosystem closes on itself, the transport runs in a loop, and the future expansion is just the next crater over.

HOW

  1. Research 3D printing on Mars: regolith melted into paste, printed by drone robotics, and shaped so every surface stands at an angle that needs no support, because we all hate support with 3D printers.
  2. Model the ring in Rhino with SubD, from the massing to the sleeping pods.
  3. Feed the model to generative AI tools, at the early stage of image generation becoming a thing, to render concepts straight from the geometry, finished in V-Ray.

WHAT CAME OF IT

Top 50 at Marsception, listed with both our names on the public results page. And my first proof that generative tools and architecture could share a desk: an early bet, and it aged well.