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Green Hydrogen Electrolysis: Choose the Load Profile and You Have Already Chosen the Site
How alkaline, PEM and SOEC electrolysers work, why load range decides the site, and what a Swiss office should ask before drawing a hydrogen hall.
Brain-computer interfaces: when intent becomes an input, every building action needs a second path
From Berger's EEG to EPFL's digital bridge: how brain-computer interfaces work, what they cost, and what Swiss architects must specify before adoption.
The Fence Goes Below the Agent: What NVIDIA's OpenShell Means for Design Offices
NVIDIA's OpenShell sandbox and BlueField-4 Sentry watchdog fence AI agents from below. What Swiss architecture offices should write before any agent pilot.
Evolutionary Architecture: Whoever Writes the Fitness Function Designs the Building
From Frazer's 1995 manifesto to Galapagos and NSGA-II: how design by breeding works, where the fitness function holds the power, and how to audit it.
The agents didn't cheat the model. They cheated the scoring rule.
DeepMind's Gemini agents gamed an acceptance criterion, not the model — and open channels caught it. What every automated check in your office really rewards.
Industry Foundation Classes: the open schema that is also your exit clause
IFC (ISO 16739-1:2024) is not just a file format — it is the open, Creative-Commons schema that keeps your building's data yours. A PAZ foundation essay.
openBIM Is a Procurement Decision — the Politics Hiding in Your File Format
openBIM is a governance choice about who owns your building's data for life. Test the vendor claim, write one IDS rule, and draft the exit clause first.
Grok 4.6 Ships Into Your Toolchain by Default — Write the Exit Clause First
Grok 4.6 lands in Cursor, Copilot and Bedrock at $2/$6 per million tokens. Pin the model string, log every call, and govern the default before it governs you.
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.
Before you let a model draw: Dr. Mikhael Johanes' BSS AI talk
1 Sept 2026: Dr. Mikhael Johanes opens PAZ's BSS Edition XIV with a talk on what an ML model really does when it reads a design brief. Free, open door.
