Matter Flows is a personal repository of thoughts and demonstrations that revolve around the intersection of materials and technology in the built environment.
Here I’ll discuss the importance of taking a step back to evaluate larger design decisions prior to jumping into the weeds of material optimizations. While many larger design decisions are dismissed for their complexity, I argue that we often confuse familiarity with complexity.
Read MoreThis post provides a deep dive into some of the data that’s available on EC3’s database. With a growing spotlight on embodied carbon, I wanted to take a closer look at the data that design tools, standards, and policies are beginning to be built around.
Read MoreThis tutorial is an abridged version of a workshop I recently taught at the DBEI (Digital Built Environment Institute) Digital Built Week conference. This runs through how to connect data in Revit to the web using Python (via pyRevit).
Read MoreThis tutorial provides a brief intro to Streamlit, an open-source Python framework for building web apps geared towards data science. This was the basis for a tutorial I did on the Yourdesk University series.
Read MoreThe ec3-python-wrapper is a Python wrapper for working with the EC3 Building Transparency API. This post provides a brief overview of why I built it and what it does.
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