I'm at home

     During the pandemic, I finally had time to just... make things. No agenda, no deliverable waiting at the end. Just me, Rhino, Grasshopper, and a lot of quiet hours.

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     Some of these concepts were barely even designs in the traditional sense. More like photographs of a thought. Something would appear in my mind and I would go straight to the computer and build it, no second-guessing, no refining the idea into something more rational.

 

First feeling -> final render.

Whatever came out -> was the thing.

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     Others I had sketched mentally for a while but never built out. A pod curled up on a hillside like it grew there. Ruins emerging from the sand at night, glowing from within. A light installation responding to a pianist alone in an empty factory. A parametric canopy holding a crowd beneath it like a giant hand. I wasn't trying to solve anything. I was just following the geometry wherever it wanted to go. It's easy to forget, in the middle of project work, that this is why most of us got into architecture in the first place. Not the deliverables. The strange pleasure of making a space that didn't exist before.

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     These were also my first renders in Twinmotion. I had been putting it off, assuming it would take time to learn properly. It didn't. The real-time feedback, the lighting, the way environments just come together: it became my go-to render tool from that point on and still is.