Archive · August 2026
Closed-Form Calculus on Your Desk: Integrate Symbolically with SymPy
Wolfram's Integrate page shows off closed-form calculus. SymPy does the same in open Python you own — turn a load into a bending moment in four lines.
The Segmented Shell: How You Fake a Curve and Keep the Physics
How segmented shells keep membrane efficiency while deleting the mould — from Candela to BUGA's 376 timber segments to ETH's demountable concrete floors.
Remise Rosa: a CLT body that rose on a Zurich freight yard in five months
Hello Wood's 2,500 m² Remise Rosa stood up on a Zurich freight yard in five months via CNC-prefabricated CLT — and why the real win is the model, not the speed.
SONG rehearses the crowd before the robot walks your lobby
SONG's 3D Gaussian splatting simulator trains social-navigation robots on photoreal crowds — and turns every public splat-twin into a Swiss data-residency question.
PACE, Precession, and the Sun Angle Already Written Into Your Facade
NASA's PACE and SPHEREx read Earth as a spectrum, not a picture. The projection and precession math behind them is the same math that fixes your facade's sun angle.
The Shoelace Behind a Live Freeform Area Take-Off
How Gauss's shoelace and Green's theorem let a freeform boundary hand you its area every frame — plus a four-line Grasshopper GHPython node you can wire today.
DeepSeek-V4 ships a million-token context at a tenth the KV cache
DeepSeek-V4's preview cuts KV cache to 10% and FLOPs to 27% at a million tokens — the infrastructure move that makes long-context AI affordable for AEC offices.
When the script finally runs: PAZ Consultancy and the software your AEC desk actually needs
PAZ-Next previews bespoke AEC software development — from graphic statics to a four-line Archicad wall audit. Measure your worst export, then build the tool.
Computational Nanomechanics: Why a Material's Strength Is Grown, Not Looked Up
Why a material's strength is an emergent, atom-scale behaviour — and how architects can interrogate nano-reinforced datasheets instead of trusting them.
The Pyramid Tokyo Can't Build Yet — And the Single Material It's Waiting On
Shimizu's 2,004 m Tokyo Bay mega-pyramid rests on one un-arrived material — structural carbon nanotube. A systems read on single points of failure in your own stack.
