Artist, computational designer, and design researcher
a multidisciplinary outlet for my creative pursuits خوش آمدید
I'm a designer-researcher working where architecture, computation and AI meet. I build tools that think alongside designers, and I write about what that does to the practice of design.
I trained as an architect and worked as a BIM modeller, briefly ran a design magazine, and eventually found myself in AI research and web design. This site is where that work lives: the research, the buildings, the writing, and the things I still make with my hands.
- web design
- graphics
- ai design
- publications
- computational design
- architecture
- fabrication
- design research
what i work on کام
What I work on
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Design engineering
AI and computational tools for design: multimodal teaching systems, climate-aware co-pilots, generative image workflows, and design-to-fabrication pipelines that take a mathematical definition all the way to a machined surface.
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Architecture
Generative and adaptive building systems: modular mixed-use housing that changes with its occupants, and projects that use architecture to ask harder questions about confinement, surveillance and choice.
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Publishing
Founded and edited Astana, a multimedia design magazine, alongside freelance journalism and academic writing on architecture, urbanism and design culture.
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Graphics and fabrication
Furniture, printed matter and physical making, kept deliberately close to the digital work, because the two keep teaching each other things.
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selected projects منتخب کام
Selected projects
- studio mahfa
- bahar: a design supper club
- design research
- austin, texas
- open for work
currently اس وقت
Currently
Running Studio Mahfa, my design practice in Austin: web design, branding and publication design for magazines, small studios and independent practitioners.
Launching Bahar بہار, a design supper club in Austin: bringing designers, writers and makers around a table to talk about the work properly.
Writing about healing, an account of working through Hashimoto's and liver problems after moving to the States, and of rebuilding a life around them holistically.
Still writing about architecture, computation and what AI is doing to design practice, after founding and editing Astana.
background پس منظر
Background
Masters in Advanced Computation and Design, IAAC Barcelona (2024-2025). Bachelors in Architecture, UET Lahore (2015-2020). Based in Austin, Texas.