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The Parthenon Just Got Two New Stones — and a Lesson in As-Built Memory
Two marble blocks close a 220-year gap on the Parthenon — and show why readable geometry, open protocols and re-scan discipline outlive any vendor cloud.
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.
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.
Digital Twin: the model that refuses to stay still
A PAZ foundation essay on digital twins for AEC — the strict definition, NASA origins, NEST and Crossrail in practice, plus a four-line Python twin to try.
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.
When the Scan Has to Show Its Work: CORTEX and the Building That Diagnoses Itself
CORTEX's traceable-reasoning benchmark for 3D CT scans maps straight onto smart buildings: why your BMS must cite the sensor evidence behind every alarm.
My BMS Wants an LLM. First It Needs a Lock on the Door.
An arXiv trapped-ion study gates LLM-written ARTIQ code behind content-bound tokens — the exact boundary every smart building's BMS and building-OS will need.
Archicad meets KI: a 2026-06-24 Powersession for the desk that actually has to build it
Join PAZ Academy's online Archicad Powersession – KI on 24 June 2026: AI that drafts and tags in your model, with PAZ-BOX and PAZGPT, no hype.
Grammar-Bound AI Discovers Material Laws Buildings Can Actually Trust
A new arXiv framework uses grammar-based symbolic regression to discover dissipation potentials guaranteed to obey thermodynamics — for buildings.
Wall finishes shouldn't be a second job: our 15 June Archicad Power Session
Free 30-min PAZ Academy Power Session, 15 June 2026: organise Archicad wall finishes as model data with the PAZ-BOX so lists and legends stay in sync.
