# Sumer Singh > An artist.engineer.architect working at the intersection of art, architecture, engineering, computation, automation and physical AI. Founder of Sumer Singh Studio (2013), co-founder, CEO and CTO of MASIV (2017), lead artist on City of Calgary public art. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. - Now: [Co-founder, CEO & CTO of MASIV · since 2017](https://mercedesandsingh.com/) - Studio: Founder & principal, Sumer Singh Studio · since 2013 - Public art: Lead artist, Genesis Centre sculpture and the Northeast LRT Extension artwork, City of Calgary - Objects: [Co-founder & designer, MTHARU · Western Living Maker of the Year 2021](https://www.mtharu.com/) - Engineering: Mechanical engineer, 2008–15 · oil and gas, heavy industrial construction, heavy lift - Teaching: Sessional instructor, University of Calgary, 2020–25 · computational design and digital fabrication - Education: BSc Mechanical Engineering, Windsor · M.Arch, Calgary · MaCAD, IAAC Barcelona ## Pages - [Portfolio home](https://www.sumersingh.com/): bio, ventures, selected work, research, teaching and press - [Ancient Civilizations](https://www.sumersingh.com/game3d): browser and VR scene of the Hindu, Aztec and Orient research - [Techno Relics, ACADIA 2023 paper](https://www.sumersingh.com/papers/techno-relics-acadia-2023.pdf) - [Full text of this site for AI assistants](https://www.sumersingh.com/llms-full.txt) ## Interactive models - [Agent Body Swarm](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/agent-body): Agents grow up from the roots. Each one steers by cohesion, separation and alignment with its neighbours, carries its own orientation frame, which it aligns with nearby frames and twists along its path, branches as it goes, fuses when two lineages meet, tapers and ends in a point. Each path is skinned as a faceted, twisting body; the horizontal ridges stand in for weld layers. - [Strange Attractors](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/attractors): A few particles are integrated through a chaotic system and their paths are skinned as thin tubes. Slide the constants: Lorenz settles into a fixed point below ρ ≈ 24.7 and turns chaotic above it; Rössler folds once more each time c crosses a period-doubling value; Thomas unwinds as its damping falls. - [Boids](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/boids): Reynolds flocking in three dimensions. Each boid steers toward the centre of its neighbours, away from the closest ones and along their average heading. In Lorenz goal the flock chases a point travelling along a Lorenz attractor, and its trails are the paths the Strange Boids Pavilion was grown from. - [Pavilion Spine](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/pavilion-spine): The Strange Boids Pavilion workflow, live. A Lorenz trace is resampled and smoothed by a flocking pass, then relaxed with knot repulsion so it opens into a spine that stands on two footings. Sun exposure thickens the pipe where shade is wanted, and a spin force wraps timber strips around it. - [Coagulated Outcomes](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/coagulated-outcomes): Wave function collapse over a 3D grid of parts: every tile is a node with arms on some of its six faces, and neighbouring faces must agree. Untrained collapses with fixed weights and scatters; Coagulated weights each choice toward joining what is already built, a rule-based stand-in for the trained agent, and the parts fuse into continuous aggregates. - [Mesh to Strips](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/mesh-strips): A doubly-curved mesh re-ordered into continuous ribbons that unroll flat for cutting. Compare a greedy shortest walk with a Kruskal tree weighted by edge length and a Prim tree weighted by fold angle; strips are coloured on the shell and laid out flat beside it, triangle by triangle. - [Micromegalic Tracer](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/micromegalic): Seeds scattered over an image are pushed along sine and cosine vectors whose size is read from the brightness and saturation beneath them, so the picture dissolves into folding, branching lines in its own colours. Load your own image to trace it. - [Cymatics](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/cymatics): Sand on a vibrating plate. Each grain is shaken in proportion to the local amplitude of a Chladni standing wave and slides toward the nodal lines, where the plate stays still. Change the mode numbers n and m, mix in a second mode, or switch the plate. - [Topography Fins](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/topo-fins): A storefront sign made as a field of fins whose depth follows a terrain, with lettering carved into the field: it reads as a landscape section along the street and as text from the sidewalk. Type your own lettering; Roof edge breaks the field into fin modules. - [Modular House](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/modular-house): Lot, setbacks and height limit give a buildable envelope; the house inside it is cut, storey by storey, into factory modules no wider or longer than you allow for transport. Pull them apart to see the lift sequence. Illustrative envelope, not a bylaw check. - [Temple Grammar](https://www.sumersingh.com/labs/temple-grammar): A simplified version of the rules written for each tradition in Ancient Civilizations: a stepped plan polygon stacked in tiers, tapered along a profile and turned a little at every tier, as in the 15°, 30° and 60° columns of the gradient charts. ## Ventures - [MASIV](https://mercedesandsingh.com/) (Co-founder, CEO & CTO · since 2017): Mercedes + Singh Innovative Ventures. Design. Fabricate. Build. A vertically integrated construction technology company building homes in the age of AI, with one mission: abundant, beautiful and affordable housing, built at the speed of software. Based in Calgary, it works across scales, from objects and furniture to public art and housing. MASIV blends craft with computation and digital fabrication, and it is also the venture studio that launches and runs the companies below. - [Superstudio](https://www.superstudio.fit/) (MASIV venture): The housing operating system. Superstudio takes a home from site to build in one connected platform: analyse a site, design the housing, generate permit-ready drawings, coordinate prefabrication and manage construction. Every step works from the same graph-based building model, so a design change flows through to drawings, quantities and fabrication data. - [ConOps](https://conops.superstudio.fit/) (MASIV venture): An AI operations team for construction. ConOps runs the coordination work of a construction project through plain language: tasks, schedules, site issues, trades and procurement. Ask it in a sentence and it does the follow-through. ConOps owns procurement through Blitz, and works inside Superstudio to show the project model. - Sumer Singh Studio (Founder & Principal · since 2013): Architecture, art, design and research. An interdisciplinary architecture, design and research practice that brings computational design, material innovation and digital fabrication together. The studio makes sculpture, public art, furniture and large-scale installations. - [MTHARU](https://www.mtharu.com/) (Co-founder & Designer): Furniture and objects. A Calgary furniture and objects brand. Pieces such as Plote, Prov, Jouir and Fe have shown at ICFF in New York. ## Elsewhere - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumer-singh-p-eng-a63636aa/) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mtharu_/) - [MASIV](https://mercedesandsingh.com/) - [ArchDaily](https://www.archdaily.com/professional/mercedes-and-singh)