Islamabad, Pakistan · Open to relocation
AhmadSohailArchitecture, built by software.
01 — THE PLOT
Every project starts inside a rule.
Boundary, setbacks, coverage, height. Before a line is drawn, the envelope already exists — and the whole discipline is working out what is possible inside it.
- Authority approvals
- Design management
- Feasibility
02 — ARCHITECTURE
Twelve years of buildings that got built.
The Townhouse Hotel, Pakistan's first Small Luxury Hotels property, two International Property Awards. Twenty-plus commissions at KIDC across hospitality, residences, retail, healthcare and adaptive reuse.
- PCATP licensed
- Concept to site
- Revit / BIM
03 — COMPUTATION
Geometry that carries to the fabricator.
Reusable Grasshopper systems for Mero space frames and large-span structures, carrying setting-out through node scheduling to machine data. Sixty-plus pre-engineered buildings ran on them.
- Rhino + Grasshopper
- Digital fabrication
- Building physics
04 — SOFTWARE & AI
The plan becomes a graph.
HouseGenAI and UrbanGenAI: rooms as nodes, adjacency as edges, regulation encoded before generation. Led end to end with a team of ten, concept through deployment.
- Graph neural networks
- Constrained diffusion
- AI-assisted build
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Who I Am
01 / Profile
I am a licensed architect (PCATP) and Partner at Khyyam Ikram Design Collaborative in Islamabad, and I lead a ten-person team building generative design products at Imarat.
Most people in this field do one of three things. The value is in the overlap: I know what a tool has to produce because I have had to produce it by hand, on site, to a deadline — what a fabricator needs, what an authority will reject, and what breaks during construction.
A — Architecture
Design & Delivery
Commercial, industrial, residential, healthcare and adaptive reuse, concept through authority approvals to construction.
- Design management
- Authority approvals
- Detailing & execution
- Revit / BIM
S — Software & AI
Generative Products
Two AI design products from concept to deployment, leading a team of ten. Graph neural networks, constrained diffusion, web applications.
- HouseGenAI
- UrbanGenAI
- GNN spatial reasoning
- AI-assisted development
C — Computation
Parametric Systems
Systems that carry geometry through to fabrication output, used daily across a studio.
- Rhino + Grasshopper
- Spaceframe geometry
- Fabrication data
- Building physics
Selected Work
02 / Register
Six of 22 records. Each one carries a reference — discipline, year, type — so the whole body of work reads as one practice rather than three separate careers.
Lab
03 / Tools
Three working tools, each running live in the browser. These are the testing beds behind the products — open any of them and change the inputs.
Papers
04 / Written work
Three pieces of written work: a generative design system, a built residence that had to be rationalised before it could be made, and an account of learning to think in a parametric language.
Open to roles in computational design, AEC software and architecture.
Currently in Islamabad and available for relocation. Happy to talk about Grasshopper at production scale, spaceframe geometry, graph-based spatial reasoning, or putting generative tools into a studio workflow that has to ship.