Generate Build·Oct 28The Water Was the First Thing the Site Plan Had to AnswerTwo days after a storm, the Comet Drive-In still had water in it. Not a pond, not a flood, just long silver strips sitting in the wheel…
Future Built AI·Oct 26What Five Site Tools Changed in a Maine Mill TownA planner in Winslow Falls once showed me a site plan with a clean green lawn where the mill’s wood yard had been. The survey told a…
Generate Build·Oct 23Five 3D Tools, One Quarry: What Each One Actually DecidedThe board packet for Harlow Quarry arrived as a stack of PDFs and one question that would not go away: should the east bench hold 160…
Future Built AI·Oct 22Archshaper, GenAnywhere, and the Case for Slowing Down Before You ExportThe site was a leftover strip between a library parking lot and a row of 1920s storefronts. We had three days to answer one question: could…
Future Built AI·Oct 21Modeling One District Five Ways: Notes on Halfmaps, CityEngine, OpenRoads, GenAnywhere, and…Same 300 acres. Five different definitions of the word “model,” and a lot of opinions by Thursday.
GenAnywhere·Oct 20The Render Was Gorgeous and Nobody Could Tell Me How Tall the Building WasThe client liked the picture. That is the part I remember best: a good reaction around the table, a nod, and then one planner asking a…
