Archive · September 2026
A blind wall, three fixes, three shapes: a dosage curve for fear of crime
Nature Cities randomised windows, graffiti removal and planting on a blind wall at four dosages — three shapes, one gender gap, and a Swiss test still unrun.
BIM Interoperability: the building is the hand-off, not the model
Why two ISO 16739-compliant IFC exports can describe two different buildings — and how to police the seam with ifcopenshell, ISO 19650 and openBIM discipline.
Arrays for architects: the one Python list that holds your building
Learn the one data structure behind every generative script: from w3schools' fruit list to looping your whole IFC model with IfcOpenShell. Day 1 of Python for AEC.
Fourteen years, one floor system: what VAULTED teaches a small Swiss office
VAULTED AG took fourteen years from a cathedral thesis to CreaTower I in Zug. What a small Swiss practice borrows: one system, shared models, IFC discipline.
The building that became the exhibit: reading the Lucas Museum from inside its curved skin
The 28,000 m² Lucas Museum opens 22 Sept 2026 — a free-form MAD shell where Star Wars art, NURBS geometry and the building-OS share one coordinate system.
The hand that reports back: why 1X put its motors in the forearm
1X's NEO hand runs a 5:1–15:1 tendon drive so every grasp reports force back — and why that makes your as-built IFC the coordinate frame robots will ask for.
The half-built tunnel comes due: what the Lötschberg's empty bore says about deferring fit-out
Switzerland's half-built Lötschberg Base Tunnel goes to full expansion — CHF 1.7bn, objection window closes 15 Sep 2026. What deferred fit-out really costs.
Start C# From One Variable — and Learn to Read an IFC Line While You're There
A hands-on PAZ tutorial: scaffold your first C# console app with the .NET SDK, then read an IFC wall line as the same named variable. Notepad-proof, vendor-proof.
Digital Twin: the model that never stops listening
From NASA's 2010 definition to bridge and BIM twins — what a digital twin really is, why it holds, and the one scalar your office must name before calling it one.
Review of the Week — W36: The week the dependency graph got shorter and the coordinate got honest
Nvidia buys Hugging Face, telemetry papers on who prompts AI, IFC as tokens, and ITER's cold tolerance — the week's signal for Swiss AEC offices, ranked.
