I build the computational systems that let teams design and deliver the previously impossible.

Engineer-architect by training (UCL Bartlett), design technologist by trade, sound-obsessed by nature. At Atelier One I write the parametric pipelines and custom tools that turn geometry no one knows how to price into buildings that get built. Carbon, cost and fabrication in the model from the first sketch. And when I’m not scripting facades, I’m usually building something you can play. A pavilion that answers your touch, a drum machine made of rain.

Design Technologist · Computational Design · Custom Tooling · Emerging Technologies

Design Technology

The day job. Computational systems that carry ideas all the way to fabrication.

My professional portfolio covers computational facade pipelines for JPMorgan Chase’s global HQ, sculpted stone for the Obama Presidential Center with Maya Lin, a touring 6,000-capacity concert architecture, the embodied-carbon workflow behind an IStructE Supreme Award winner, and rationalisation tooling for freeform desert architecture.

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Thesis

Phygital Adhocracy

Design, technology and self-governance in post-blast Beirut.

Sound & Space

The thread I can’t put down. Instruments, installations and rooms that listen.

Side Quests

Detours worth taking. Competitions, curation, paint and half-finished experiments.

Education

Where the questions started. The Bartlett, UCL.

More about me

Let’s build something together.

ralf.g.saade@gmail.com