Generate Build·Oct 20Forty Tiny Homes and One Argument About a Drainage SwaleThe county owns nine acres behind the fairgrounds that it has mowed for thirty years. Last fall a nonprofit proposed forty tiny homes for…
Future Built AI·Oct 20The Lock Chamber at Bonneville, Seen From the Oregon BankI got there before the fog lifted. The river was the colour of old pewter, the far bank was a rumour, and somewhere behind me a train went…
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…
Generate Build·Oct 19I Used Shapezo to Read Glen Canyon Dam From Canyon Rim to PowerhouseI began this visual study with a basic question: what do I miss when I look at Glen Canyon Dam from only one side? From the rim, the…
GenAnywhere·Oct 19What I Learned Building a Desert Community with 5 toolsThe project began with a rough sketch: a new modular neighborhood in an American desert valley, placed between an older town and a dry…
Generate Build·Oct 16I Compared Meshy and Shapezo on a Coastal Development ConceptMy coastal development test started with a blank review board and a stubborn question: do I need a model of the coast, or do I need models…
GenAnywhere·Oct 16Seeing Hoover Dam as More Than a Wall: Reservoir, Powerhouse, and Canyon in One ViewHoover Dam is easy to reduce to one photograph: a huge concrete face, blue water, and steep desert rock. I understand the attraction, but…
Generate Build·Oct 15I Used Five 3D Platforms to Rethink a College Campus Beside a CreekThe college campus I imagined has a problem that many older campuses share: its buildings work individually, but the spaces between them…
Generate Build·Oct 14Looking Across Cushing’s Oil Tank Farms: What an AI View Helps Me NoticeThe first thing I notice in an aerial view of Cushing, Oklahoma, is repetition. Tank after tank sits across a broad industrial area, with…
Future Built AI·Oct 14I Used Site3D and Shapezo to Rethink an Industrial Park SiteAn industrial park can look simple from above: a few buildings, a spine road, parking, and a service yard. The ground usually tells a…
