Territories of Operation
Interactive & Collaborative Tools establish digital environments that transform architectural design from solitary practice to collective creation across global networks. This expertise encompasses real-time multiplayer design platforms, natural user interfaces, conflict resolution systems, and community engagement tools that democratize spatial authorship.
Approach & Logics
1. Synchronous Spatial Manipulation: Advanced networking architectures enable real-time collaborative design across planetary distances, with multiple agents simultaneously shaping three-dimensional space through sophisticated state synchronization protocols.
2. Intuitive Spatial Interfaces: Natural user interaction paradigms eliminate technical barriers to design participation through gesture recognition, voice commands, and haptic feedback systems.
3. Conflict Resolution Intelligence: Artificial mediation systems navigate contradictory design intentions through sophisticated optimization algorithms, enabling machine intelligence to discover synthetic solutions.
4. Temporal Design Versioning: Sophisticated version control systems track spatial evolution through time with branching, merging, and rollback capabilities that enable non-destructive experimentation.
5. Multimodal Communication Integration: Platforms synthesize spatial manipulation with rich communication channels including voice, text, gesture, and annotation layers.
Illustrative Projects
HyperBlock Collaborative Platform (Bartlett B-Pro): Real-time multiplayer design environment enabling global teams to co-create complex architectural configurations.
Interactive Settlement Design (Roy Projects): Participatory platform enabling community engagement in speculative settlement design, integrating emotional parameters and energy source manipulation.
Spatial AI Urban Nightlife Simulation (Columbia GSAPP): Semantic modeling system with 300+ agents achieving 99.97% consistency, demonstrating advanced urban choreography prediction and public space optimization through machine learning integration.
Domains:
Web Technologies | Human-Computer Interaction | Network Engineering | User Experience Design | Game Development
Focus:
Real-time multiplayer spatial design environments | Natural user interfaces for 3D interaction | Global collaborative design networks
Methods/Skills:
Unity | Unreal Engine | JavaScript | C# | Three.js | WebGL | P5.js | TouchDesigner | Figma | Git | WebSockets | Socket.io | React | Node.js | Electron | Blender | Maya | Adobe XD
Interdisciplinary Interface
Human-computer interaction | Game design and development | Network engineering | Cognitive science | Social collaboration theory