About

Ralf Gabriel Saade

Design technologist. London.

Six threads. Hover to read them, pluck to hear them.

I’m a design technologist working where architecture, engineering and emerging technology meet. Trained as an engineer-architect at UCL’s Bartlett, in practice at Atelier One, I build the computational systems that let teams design and deliver the previously impossible. From JPMorgan’s sculpted stone facade in Manhattan to a touring 6,000-capacity concert hall.

The same instinct runs outside the office. I build instruments and installations that treat sound as a material of architecture. A pavilion you can play. A drum machine made of rain. A 30-minute portrait of a city’s noise.

The full story, projects, tools and distinctions, lives in the CV below.

Ralf Saade at the Crypt Gallery, London
At the Crypt Gallery, London, during Sonic Portraits.

01Conceive

Originate the creative and spatial idea, grounded in structural principles, environmental performance, civic benefit and individual experience.

02Compute

Build the custom tools, parametric workflows, optimisation and AI-assisted methods that evolve the idea into a viable design.

03Realise

Keep it real. Computational work grounded in fabrication logic, tolerances and data, so designs reach built reality even when others execute.

Curriculum Vitae

Download CV (PDF)

Let’s build something together.

ralf.g.saade@gmail.com