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The Thoughts

  1. explaining thingsJUL 2026How do you explain a complex, honestly boring technical subject so someone leans in instead of glazing over?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. experiences are dataMAY 2026You learned what a room does to you by being in rooms. Nobody sat you down with a dataset.
  5. 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.
  6. when the tool scores peopleAPR 2026I build things that give a room a score. The obvious next question, and the one I would ask me, is what happens the day somebody uses that score to decide who gets the room.
  7. latent spaceAPR 2026Machine learning borrowed the word space from us, and I would like to check what it did with it.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. heritage meets new techDEC 2025The 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.
  11. neuroaestheticsDEC 2025Neuroaesthetics is the unglamorous name for a question everyone already feels: why does one room settle you and another keep you on edge?
  12. 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.
  13. physics solversNOV 2025A physics solver is the most honest collaborator I have: it doesn't care what I intended, only what I actually built.
  14. computationOCT 2025Computation is not the same as using a computer, and separating the two took me longer than I would like to admit.
  15. what an llm actually isSEP 2025A large language model is a machine that guesses the next word. That is not me being kind to you, that is the whole thing.
  16. generative aiDEC 2023Generative AI made the inspired gesture free. Anyone can produce a thousand renders before lunch, and a render is a promise, not a product.
  17. 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.
  18. connecting the dotsJUN 2020When the art class was asked who here dislikes drawing, mine was the only hand that went up. Awkward.

A Playscape

What happens when you drop a climbing net on balloons? 

TYPEExplorationsTEAMMACAD BOOTCAMP · JUST FOR FUNSTACKGRASSHOPPER · KANGAROO · PYTHON
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WHAT

Python scripted base surfaces are meshed and inflated with Kangaroo pressure goals into five soft mounds; then two square rope nets drop in sequence, catch on the inflatables and tension into a double layer climbing canopy. Anchor heights and net rotation are the iteration dials; a section grounds it with padded floors and porthole openings for kids.

WHY

Just for fun, which is the honest reason. But play is a real structural brief: everything in the frame is form found, nothing is drawn by hand, and the section still reads like a place a kid would run to.

HOW

  1. Python scripts the base surfaces; Kangaroo pressure goals inflate them into five soft mounds.
  2. Two square rope nets drop in sequence: gravity pulls, collision catches them on the inflatables, and they tension into a double layer climbing canopy.
  3. Wind and force loads shake the settled state to see what holds; anchor heights and net rotation are the iteration dials.
  4. A section grounds it: padded floors and porthole openings for kids.

WHAT CAME OF IT

Form finding was the point, and it is the word that mattered: the geometry was never drawn, it was negotiated with a physics solver holding pressure, gravity, collision and wind in one loop until they agreed. Kangaroo stopped being a plugin and became a counterparty. The playground is the byproduct; what stayed is knowing how to ask a solver for a shape, and to take its refusals seriously.