Not Real
Architecture

Building this playground

Why this site is a hybrid playground, and the architecture behind the experiments gallery.

Developing minipaths

Dev notes from building minipaths — a small procedural roguelike that runs on Deno Deploy.

Model data as a data model

Most data problems are modeling problems in disguise. Shape the data well and the code mostly writes itself.

Notes on Vite 8 and Rolldown

A couple of gotchas moving a react-three-fiber app onto Vite 8's Rolldown bundler.

Not Real Architecture

This site — a hybrid portfolio and creative-coding sandbox built on React, Vite, and a prerendered SPA.

What "not real" architecture is

A lot of what gets called architecture is decoration. Real architecture is the set of decisions that are expensive to reverse.

Minipaths

A small library for composing and animating SVG paths as first-class, interpolatable values.

Orbit Lines

Rotating radial lines with bloom — a react-three-fiber + postprocessing sketch.

Skill Graph

An interactive node-graph of the stack, built with @xyflow/react.

Icon Forge

A parametric generator for page icons — ring, spiral, and dial layouts on a 2D canvas, with a shareable URL.

Ultra-Light Factory

A parametric reconstruction of a modular timber framework — morph between a tall column and a cube, after Christian Borger’s SF-01.

View To

A full-stack C# application that generates and consumes viewshed data on the GPU, used as an internal design tool at Sasaki.

Ultralight Mapping

A projection-mapping installation built with MadMapper to make a featured furniture piece feel as if it were floating in a void of light.

SpeckleDirStat

An interactive visualization of the "weight" of every object in a Speckle stream — like WinDirStat for 3D models. First place at the Speckle Hackathon 2022.

Entity City

A Unity AR app using Vuforia and LiDAR data to visualize the elevation and urban form of Boston.

Project Parallel

A suite of VR architectural modeling tools for the HTC Vive, built with VRTK to make design in VR interactive rather than just visual.

Balloon Goon

A design-and-build installation made from paneling, plastic, tape, and air, built for the Boston Architectural College and shown at Open Newbury.