SYSTEMS
Linkages after Origami: Harvard and Tokyo Grow Collapsible Surfaces One Joint at a Time
A Harvard and University of Tokyo team grows deployable scissor lattices joint by joint. What it means for kinetic facades and pavilions in Switzerland.
Omarchy on a Spare Laptop: Build an Open IFC Checkpoint on Arch and Hyprland
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.
Digital Identity Architecture: Follow the Load Path from Credential to Site Gate
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.
One Casting, No Joints: The Geometry Under the Giga Press
How single-piece megacasting eliminates joints: the topology, the clamping-force maths, and what part consolidation teaches an AEC studio.
Infrastructure Systems Design: why the honest engineer solves the whole web at once
A PAZ foundation essay on Infrastructure Systems Design: coupled constraints, NSGA-II Pareto fronts, and why the honest engineer optimises cost, carbon and resilience together.
Reality capture became a layer in someone else's platform — who owns your site record?
Procore's $845m DroneDeploy buy turns reality capture into a platform layer. The real asset is the scene graph — who owns your site record now?
Bellard's Page: What One Maintainer's Dependency Graph Teaches Every Office
Fabrice Bellard's one-page stack — FFmpeg, QEMU, TCC, NNCP — shows every office why the dependency graph, not the architecture diagram, tells the truth.
ASML books 'documentation recovery' as engineering — and so should your 14-person studio
ASML funds a decade-long program to keep 1990s scanners alive through documentation recovery — the same knowledge debt a 14-person practice carries undocumented.
Quantum computers don't have a breakthrough problem — they have a dependency problem
Quantum computing isn't waiting on one breakthrough but on an unclosed dependency graph — and the same systems discipline maps straight onto your studio's stack.
Zero-Trust Architecture: There Is No Inside, Only the Next Request
A PAZ foundation essay on Zero-Trust Architecture — NIST SP 800-207, BeyondCorp, and why the jobsite of 2026 must verify every request, not trust location.
