Islamabad, Pakistan
AhmadSohail
Architecture, computation and software, collected into one practice.
I collect systems.
Knowledge, skills, tools — and, if you ask, trading cards, manga, watches and games. Collecting is the same habit either way: you learn to see parts as a set, and to notice what is missing before anyone tells you.
- Breadth on purpose
- Pattern finding
- Depth where it counts
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
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
Two teams, run in parallel.
A design studio and a ten-person AI team, side by side. Not the loudest manager in the room — the one who keeps the parts talking to each other, and who teaches the thing once it works.
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Studio and product
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Who I Am
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.
Architecture
Design & Delivery
Commercial, industrial, residential, healthcare and adaptive reuse, concept through authority approvals to construction.
- Design management
- Authority approvals
- Detailing & execution
- Revit / BIM
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
Computation
Parametric Systems
Systems that carry geometry through to fabrication output, used daily across a studio.
- Rhino + Grasshopper
- Spaceframe geometry
- Fabrication data
- Building physics
Collector
Breadth is the method
Knowledge, skills and tools, gathered the way other people gather card sets. It is why the architecture, the computation and the software are one practice rather than three hobbies.
Coordinator
Fair, not loud
I run a design studio and an AI team in parallel. My strength is not command — it is keeping a dozen moving parts in the same conversation and being straight with people about where things stand.
Teacher
Explained, then handed over
I have taught at COMSATS University Islamabad and run workshops for working professionals. If a method cannot be taught in an afternoon, it is not finished.
Selected Work
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
Three working tools, each running live in the browser. Ask for a demo and I will send you a link.
Papers
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.
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.