Archive · July 2026
Agentic BIM: what an office buys when it stops buying the next plugin
AEC Magazine says AI agents could reshape BIM in five years. The real lever for a small practice isn't the agent—it's the clean, open data layer it reads.
Window schedules that survive the next revision — our July 15 Archicad session
Our 15 July 2026 PAZ-Next Power Session teaches Archicad windows that hold their fit, labels and counts through every revision — plus a five-line IFC check.
The Distance Field: A Crowd-Egress Toy You Can Break in Your Browser
Build a BFS distance field in 15 lines — the game mechanic behind crowd egress, turned into a live, breakable fire-evacuation check for any floor plan.
Let the Data Count Its Own Clusters: One Bayesian Trick, Two Worlds
Two 2026 arXiv papers use the Dirichlet process to let data pick cluster count — in movie ratings and cancer subtypes. What it means for BIM and design data.
Zurich's City Twin: Reading Heat and Density in the GIS Before a Building Moves
Zurich's open GIS layers plus live simulation form a city digital twin that reads heat, traffic and density before a building moves — with a PostGIS join to try.
One Agent, Six Surfaces: Cloning Nous Research's Hermes Agent for the Studio
A hands-on PAZ tutorial on Hermes Agent v0.18.0 and hermes-webui: clone the MIT runtime, sandbox it on Docker, and map its dependency graph before you trust it.
Gaussian Splatting: The Cash Flow Under A$AP Rocky's Splats
A$AP Rocky's Helicopter is dynamic Gaussian splatting, not AI. PAZ reads the cash flow: how splat capture reprices a Swiss studio's survey invoice.
Claude Fable 5's Free Window Is a Countdown — Draw Your Dependency Graph Before It Closes
Claude Fable 5's included access ends 12 July 2026. Why a rented model is a single point of failure — and how to find your cut vertices before it closes.
Graphisoft's 'Common Source of Truth' Meets the Office That Still Owns the IFC
Graphisoft's new collaboration layer and Archicad–Forma connection support IFC, BCF, PDF, DWG, RVT. A Swiss studio on why ownership discipline beats the platform.
The building's body now ships with its own error bars
PolyGraphPy (arXiv:2606.06415) pairs DFTB simulation with a Bayesian GNN to design polymers by target property — and ships uncertainty with every number.
