radical_prototypes
speculative systems lab for adaptive materials, environments, and computation.
Built Environment
& Energy Systems
Buildings that behave as instruments — sensing, generating, and conserving energy. We design facades that compute, envelopes that think, and infrastructures that close their own loops.
Energy leakage + insulation systems
High-resolution thermal mapping of building envelopes, coupled with adaptive insulation profiles that respond to seasonal and diurnal loads.
Energy-generating facades
Photo-active, piezo-responsive cladding modules. Facades treated as distributed power plants — geometry tuned per solar exposure and wind incidence.
Self-sufficient buildings + closed-loop systems
Water, energy, and atmospheric flows resolved within the building boundary. Optimization tools that compute facade performance against a 30-year climate horizon.
- › facade.compute()
- › thermal.balance()
- › grid.detach()
Advanced Materials
& Metamaterials
Geometry as mechanical property. We design lattices and microstructures whose behavior is tuned at the unit-cell level — for seating, footwear, aerospace, and beyond.
3D printed lattice structures
Octet, gyroid, and re-entrant unit cells composed across gradient densities. Geometry that replaces material.
Mechanical behavior tuning
Stiffness, damping, and energy absorption tuned spatially — anisotropic by design.
Automotive seating + footwear systems
Pressure-mapped lattice midsoles and seat cores — replacing foam stacks with single-material printed assemblies.
Auxetic surfaces + programmable matter
Surfaces with negative Poisson's ratio that thicken under tension. Matter with state — addressable, switchable, computationally reprogrammable.
Media Technology
& Memory Systems
Devices that record presence — not just images. We are building instruments for the capture, reconstruction, and replay of lived spatial experience.
Memory capture device
A wearable instrument for high-fidelity spatial recording — position, light field, and ambient acoustic context.
Memory reconstruction
Stitching captures into navigable scenes. Time as a coordinate axis you can scrub.
Photogrammetry + spatial reconstruction
Dense point clouds resolved on-device. Mesh, texture, and semantic labelling at the edge.
Experiential recording systems
Not video. Not VR. A new substrate for keeping moments — played back as space, not as frames.
STATUS
Current operating posture across the lab.