About

I’m an engineer of civil and civic systems, designing and writing on how ideas harden into infrastructure and how infrastructure, in turn, reorganises thought.
My work studies what happens when material, institutional, and informational systems fall out of alignment, when energy, labour, and memory have to be re-coordinated.
I treat design and engineering as both technical and philosophical acts, ways of reading how the world builds itself, forgets itself, and begins again.

At Interfacing Research Laboratory (IRL) I develop systems that connect construction, computation, and governance, building frameworks that allow industries, institutions, and ecologies to act in synchrony.
Rather than designing isolated objects or tools, my focus is on the infrastructures that sustain collective life: the protocols, rhythms, and material networks through which coordination becomes possible.

Before founding IRL, I studied architecture at the Architectural Association and worked with David Chipperfield Architects and Joseph Rykwert, where I developed a fascination with how design and engineering shape intelligence.

Writing

Texts on emerging technical imaginaries and contemporary material transformations.

A body of writing and visual research that tracks how imagination reorganises as technology, computation, and communication evolve.
It includes reflections, observations, image collections, photography, and progress reports — material that records the movement of ideas as they take form.

The work examines how memory, waste, modelling, and simulation operate as infrastructural conditions that decide what systems preserve, discard, and reproduce.
Writing here functions as both documentation and analysis, tracing how design, energy, and logistics create feedback between matter and information.

Routes, not roads. Methods for navigating the space between material and symbolic systems, where imagination becomes an instrument of observation.

Expect clarity, structure, and moments when complex systems briefly reveal the order within their motion.

Projects

I work where infrastructure meets computation, designing systems that remain decisive under complexity and reliable through change.

Each project translates sensing and planning into platforms, prototypes, and production environments that turn uncertainty into structure and keep decisions active through delivery.
The work spans software, physical systems, and organisational frameworks, linking civil and civic engineering to questions of feedback, adaptation, and governance.

Projects operate as tests of coherence, instruments for measuring how design and engineering can sustain precision when conditions shift.
They connect technical development with social and material consequence, showing how infrastructure can act as both tool and theory.

To build is to think in public.
Each project is a record of that process, a way of revealing how systems behave when forced to negotiate time, pressure, and intent.

Current Focus

  • Civil and Civic Reorganisation: Investigating how infrastructures evolve under the pressure of entropy, abandonment, plans, trends, and technological shifts. The work traces how these forces redraw the boundary between design, governance, and environment, revealing how systems learn, forget, and rebuild their logic over time.

  • Infrastructural Coordination: Designing frameworks that heighten interdependence among competing systems. The aim is to turn friction into structure, using feedback between logistics, construction, and institutional processes to create clarity and resilience.

  • Planetary Observation and Real-Time Systems: Developing Digital Twin frameworks that test how communication, sensing, and data co-dependence can guide design decisions in real time. This research examines how local infrastructures register global cycles of extraction, labour, and attention, and how feedback loops between data and matter can shift planetary behaviour.

  • Cognitive and Organisational Systems: Engineering infrastructures that extend how people learn, remember, and coordinate. This includes IRL PLAYground, which connects adaptive learning systems with physical classrooms to reduce administrative friction and increase responsiveness, and the IRL Trinity, a suite linking spatial organisation (Proximity), knowledge routing (Chances), and cognitive infrastructure (Differ Notes). Together these experiments explore how memory, location, and relation can function as civic materials.

  • Epistemic Infrastructure: Developing systems that make reasoning visible in a world defined by conflict and prediction. Current work includes Read Between the Lines, a comparison engine that exposes contradictions across sources and maps bias, stance, and interpretation into shared surfaces of judgment.

  • Material and Energetic Cycles: Building tools that reveal how flows of waste, energy, and maintenance underpin cognition and coordination. These prototypes translate hidden costs into legible signals, allowing design to engage directly with material consequence.

Approach

I treat design and engineering as methods for observing how the world builds itself.
Each project begins by mapping the relations between environmental forces, industrial systems, and collective behaviour, then testing how those relations shift under pressure from entropy, policy, and technological change.

The process is iterative and evidential. Systems are modelled, instrumented, and stressed until their coordination principles become legible. The outcome is not efficiency but comprehension, an understanding of how structure, time, and feedback produce coherence.

To engineer is to reason with instability, to translate conflict, delay, and interdependence into operational form. Design becomes a language for reading how infrastructures remember, how they fail, and how they reorganise meaning.

At its core, the work asks how built systems can learn from the conditions they inhabit, not to optimise but to maintain the possibility of adjustment. Each model, interface, and framework acts as a negotiation between material logic and collective intent.

Ethos

Infrastructure is collective memory in material form. It records what societies believe will last and exposes what they neglect to maintain.
To design or engineer is to intervene in this memory, to decide what persists and what is allowed to decay.

Every system, civic, technical, or ecological, is interdependent. Stability is temporary, and coordination is always negotiated through friction. The task is not to remove tension but to build conditions where it can generate intelligence.

Repair is political. It re-establishes continuity between what has been separated by speed, distance, or design.
When treated as an active discipline, maintenance becomes a form of thought that links the material, the institutional, and the planetary.

The goal is to construct infrastructures that think with the world rather than over it, that remain open to feedback, memory, and reorganisation.
Systems endure not through control but through their capacity to adapt, interpret, and sustain relation over time.

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