Archive · July 2026
The Building Would Like a Word: PAZGPT Comes to Archicad
An AI chat layer on Archicad's Python API lowers the cost of the first question — but only an inspectable schema underneath makes the answer trustworthy.
Review of the Week — W29: A Body Learns to Bank Carbon While Its Nervous System Is Rented
Week 29 recap: ETH's carbon-banking living wall, converging AI-tenancy signals, Swiss tunnel and depot infrastructure — and one honest panel-mass calculation.
Inkling and the Fine-Tune Question Every AEC Office Will Face in 2026
Thinking Machines' open-weights Inkling (975B/41B active) shifts the AEC question from which model to which data. What an architecture office should do Monday.
Haute-Sorne's Quiet Number: M0.3, and Why a Swiss EGS Well Didn't Shake Anyone
Switzerland's Haute-Sorne enhanced-geothermal well cleared stimulation at a felt-maximum of M0.3 — 60x under Basel 2006. What the numbers mean for your desk.
Matador Lost Its Head — and the Only Thing Left to Watch Was the Software
A T800 humanoid lost its head at Shenzhen's URKL tournament — 32 teams, one chassis, $1.44M belt. The real story is the safety envelope the policy ignored.
Design intent in BIM: where the parametric model stops being a toy
A PAZ foundation essay on parametric design — how design intent survives the handover from competition sketch to a governable, auditable BIM production model.
Magnasanti: The City Whose Balance Sheet Never Closed
Ocasla's six-million SimCity optimized one metric by booking hospitals and fire stations at zero — the same off-ledger trick priced into your proptech stack.
The wall that breathes: ETH's living panel banks 26 mg of CO₂ per gram
ETH Zurich's Tibbitt group prints a cyanobacteria hydrogel that banks ~26 mg CO₂/g over 400 days — part as durable carbonate. What it means for façades.
Own Your AI: Run Hugging Face Models Locally Before You Rent Them
A hands-on PAZ tutorial: install Hugging Face transformers, run inference and embeddings on your own hardware, and keep your studio's tender data on-site.
ABB Will Wake an Oerlikon Hall in 2031 — Who Owns Its Nervous System?
ABB's CHF 80m Zurich Oerlikon headquarters protects the listed fabric — but nothing protects the control stack. Write the open-protocol clause into the brief.
