space inhabitable is like this onslaught of machinery that pumps air and light into the building. so what we're interested in is what you could call engineering without engines. that essentially we use contemporary technology, our capacity to simulate and calculate the performance of a building to put the attribute into the actual design of the building, the way it's structured, the way the windows are proportioned, the way it's oriented to capture the sun or create shape. to find new ways of informing the architecture, the design of the buildings. so essentially what we are interested in is buildings that look different because they perform differently. >> byorks has a capacity to read differently into the zoning, the economics of a project, the constructability of a project in a way that most architects tend