ArticleWhat an AI model is and what an agent is
Model, agent, memory, tools, skills: what each word names. And the confusion most worth undoing: your assistant's "memory" is a dossier read to it before answering, not something it learned.
ArticleAttention Is All You Need: the translation paper that invented modern AI
In 2017, eight researchers published fifteen pages about translating English into German. The T in GPT came out of it. I read the whole paper and explain it with no math.
ArticleSix Grasshopper exercises that could be buildings
Lattices, ribs and a logo turned into relief. Coursework that is, underneath, the same problem as a real façade: a written rule.
ArticleData Driven Design: what is the best design?
An algorithm doesn't choose for you: it forces you to write down what “better” means. Buildings that orient themselves by who's looking, and why design doesn't have to fight profitability.
ArticleParametric architecture: the rules you were already using
It's not about curved façades. Five algorithms I stopped running by hand, and why the term is eight years older than “artificial intelligence”.
ArticleOGUC 3D: zoning as a map, not a PDF
Finding out what can be built on a Chilean plot means visiting five separate agencies. I'm building the platform that brings it all onto a three-dimensional map.
ArticleWhat is a digital employee?
Not a chatbot, not another automation. What Zapians' had to deliver for a real company to treat it as a coworker.
ArticleAI for interior design: more than a render
AI already speeds up the creative stage. The bottleneck that led me to found Kouzee comes after: turning that image into a proposal with real products.
ArticleHow AI image generation works
What I explained to 130 architects and designers about GANs, diffusion, ControlNet and the three parameters behind almost every weird result.
UpdateKouzee: connecting design with real products
What I learned building an app that turns inspiration images into purchasable products, and why the hard problem was not the AI.
ArticleHow much does it cost to build a house?
A square meter of gold and one of timber measure the same. Why cost per square meter misleads, and how to compute it while designing.
ArticleBuying rural land: what to check before you sign
Current title, subdivision decree, agricultural service approval and the difference between a parcel and a condominium. The paperwork that decides whether the purchase is safe.
ArticleWhich sites are best to build on?
Soil, water, vegetation, zoning and access: what to look at on a site before you sign, and what the place is telling you if you know how to read it.
ProjectA centre for the native potato in Chonchi
The hearth, the shed and the almud turned into three buildings, on the void left by the waterfront fire. My thesis project in Chiloé.
ArticleChiloé's native potato and the architecture born from it
An island where one of the four crops feeding the world was domesticated, and the building types that crop invented: the shed, the seed rack, the troja, the almud.