OBSERVE / 001
One planet.
Many signals.
I read cities as data. Street networks, sound, air, movement and pace, measured where I can measure them and named as unmeasured where I cannot.
From the planet
to the street.
Seven cities carry work on this site. One is the subject, one is where the research was done, four are the comparison set, and one turns up in an essay about pace.
The atlas
Six questions. One is measured, one is awarded, one is being built, one is an essay, one is a nomination and one is still only a question.
The lab
How a question becomes a finding, and where each of the six above currently stops.
STAGE 01
Data
Sources named, licensed, dated and bounded. If a layer has no source it is labelled a concept, not a result.
STAGE 02
Process
Cleaning, topology, projection and joins. The boring part where most of the error lives.
STAGE 03
Model
Deterministic graph analysis first. Anything predictive is separated out and validated on held out geography.
STAGE 04
Interpret
A finding needs a unit, a period, a place and a limit. The morphology study ends with three pages of what the data cannot say.
About
I trained as an architect and stopped drawing buildings when I realised the questions I cared about were about the space between them. Now I work as a spatial data scientist, mostly on cities, mostly with street networks, sensors and whatever the city will let me measure.
Bengaluru is where I live and the place most of this work tests itself against. London is where the thesis was done. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai appear because a comparison is only fair if every city is cut the same way.
My pattern, for better and worse, is saying yes to something before I fully understand it and then refusing to put it down until I do. That is how a person who had never touched a breadboard ended up building a sensor.
- ROLE
- Senior Urban Data Scientist, Urban Intelligence Lab, Bengaluru
- EDUCATION
- MArch Urban Design, UCL Bartlett B-Pro, RC14 Machine Thinking Urbanism, 2023. Architecture, BMS College of Engineering
- 2026
- Nominated for the Sidara Endeavour Program for Scenario Simulator
- AWARDS
- SEED Chairman Award for Sounds of the City. Gold medal, World Architecture Student Awards 2022. Student Award, Media Architecture Biennale 2023
- PUBLISHED IN
- ArchDaily, Arch Hive, ArchiDiaries, Inspireli, UCL Bartlett
- BASED
- Bengaluru, India