PAZ Kaffi is the AEC newsroom of PAZ Academy Zürich — daily dispatches on architecture, computational design, BIM and AI.
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.
10 SEP
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.
10 SEP
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.
09 SEP
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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.
09 SEP
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.
09 SEP
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.
08 SEP
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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.
08 SEP
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.
08 SEP
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.
"The machine doesn't have taste. We have taste. The machine has a tempo."
07 SEP
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.
07 SEP
Join PAZ Academy's RaumCreator Archicad Powersession on 9 September 2026: automate room placement, naming and stamps. Learn the zone logic, not just the button.
07 SEP
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 forecasts Swiss valley weather hourly at 5 km. For AEC teams the real story is the error bar, not the resolution.
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.
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.
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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