PAZ Kaffi is the AEC newsroom of PAZ Academy Zürich — daily dispatches on architecture, computational design, BIM and AI.
Learn TypeSafe Jev's three primitives in Python: sort site defects by trade and severity, read the probabilities, and flag the notes a human must check.
26 SEP
ETH Zurich's Sossi and Bower re-read ten isotope systems in open data: Earth formed from inner Solar System material, under 2 percent from beyond Jupiter.
26 SEP
How Miguel Fisac rotated a 16 m square into hyperbolic paraboloids, why his Madrid Pagoda still teaches, and a Grasshopper snippet to rebuild one face.
25 SEP
On 30 September 2026 PAZ Academy's Archicad Powersession turns SIA 358 railing rules, 1.00 m height and 12 cm gaps, into GDL objects that self-check.
25 SEP
CH
From the rolled double-T to EN 10365, the section table made steel reusable. K.118 in Winterthur proves it; a sketch recomputes 129 real profiles.
25 SEP
CH
Switzerland keeps over 10,000 ageing bridges rather than replacing them. After Carolabrücke, the variable that matters is detection probability, not interval.
24 SEP
Turn a spare laptop into an open IFC checkpoint with Omarchy, IfcOpenShell and Bonsai: setup, first steps and a five-line Python wall audit for AEC teams.
24 SEP
How NIST's identity roles, verifiable credentials and per-request checks work, and what they mean for BIM servers, site gates and Switzerland's e-ID.
24 SEP
Rem Koolhaas wrote Manhattan's theory after it was built. What Delirious New York teaches a Zürich Wettbewerb team about stacked uses and shared cores.
"The machine doesn't have taste. We have taste. The machine has a tempo."
23 SEP
In 1961 student Emilio Pérez Piñero won the UIA prize in London with a travelling theatre whose dome folds into a bundle of bars. See how the node works.
23 SEP
CH
BdCH/bSCH's Handlungsempfehlung «Data Dictionaries» asks for one governed vocabulary. Four moves for the property list in your Archicad template.
23 SEP
REK's remote-controlled humanoid kicked an influencer across a cage. A site robot asks who held the controller, and why your IFC doors set robot routes.
A studio in District B-12 has been operating in three time zones for nineteen months, with a permanent night shift that handles the regulator's queue while the rest of the world sleeps. The model: caffeine, clear handoffs, and a refusal to pretend that buildings are designed during business hours. We embedded for two nights.
Learn TypeSafe Jev's three primitives in Python: sort site defects by trade and severity, read the probabilities, and flag the notes a human must check.
Every morning at 04:00 the press in the basement of the kaffi spits out 2,400 broadsheets in a font we cut ourselves. The kids pick them up on the way to site, fold them into their toolbelts, and read them at lunch with grease on their fingers. The feed has not killed this. The feed has made it more useful — a single, slow, opinionated edit of a day too noisy to read live.
The print desk takes one position per story. The web desk runs a hundred. Both can be true. The point is that someone, somewhere, is still willing to pick.
There is a reason the best façade we ran this month was sketched on a napkin in the kaffi at 06:12 and not generated in a prompt. The hand still knows things the model has to be told twice.
Every studio we visit now hires straight into a 22:00–06:00 rotation. The juniors love it. The seniors who fought to get out of it find it harder to argue with the throughput numbers.
Hybrid CLT + steel core. Topping out by Q3.
Robotic masonry hits a real spec, not a demo.
And why the big vendors are quietly nervous.
Maps, owners, opening hours, kaffi quality.
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