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ArthAxis / Research
The Drafting Table.
The theoretical, mathematical and spatial research behind every ArthAxis deployment, published openly: 8 research papers and 8 client guides.
Library
Papers & blueprint guides
R-series: applied physics, algorithmic planning and resilience frameworks from our internal think tank. E-series: plain-language guides to real estate and architectural procedures.
- R-01ArthAxis Planning Theory: Reading a Site at Every Scale Before Drawing a Line
The internal framework behind every ArthAxis master plan — one spatial pattern, read at every scale from a nation down to a single courtyard. · 6 min read - R-02Fort-Gate Urbanism: Polycentric Honeycomb Layouts for Resilient Cities
A defensive fort-and-gate settlement pattern, translated into a hexagonal "honeycomb" topology — so a city or campus has more than one way to keep functioning when a single route fails. · 7 min read - R-05The Honeycomb Resiliency Model: Quantitative Spatial Network Scoring
Fort-Gate Urbanism made the qualitative case for a six-gate hexagonal layout. This piece scores it — a numeric Honeycomb Resiliency Index that turns “more gates, more paths” into an auditable number, with each gate tied to a named accountable owner. · 7 min read - R-06Metabolic Architecture: Living Nodes as Bio-Digital Organs for Urban Agglomerations
Reading a building’s skin and a plaza’s smart furniture as functional organs — inhaling air and data, filtering both, exhaling something cleaner — instead of as a facade with sensors bolted on after the fact. · 6 min read - R-07Vastu-Algorithmic Alignment: Integrating Traditional Vedic Spatial Principles with Real-Time IoT Spatial Optimization in Smart Homes
Vastu Shastra’s directional zoning was, among other things, a centuries-old heuristic for solar orientation and airflow. This piece maps each traditional zone to the specific IoT sensor feed that now measures the same thing in real time. · 7 min read - R-08The Thermal Anchor Protocol: Using 4°C Water Density Fluid Dynamics for Passive Warehouse Cooling
Water is at its densest at 4°C, not at freezing — a quirk of physics that lets a buried, insulated reservoir act as a stable cold anchor for warehouse cooling, circulated entirely by density difference rather than a pump. · 6 min read - R-09Carbon Footprint Tokens (CFT): IoT Sensor-Backed Environmental Accounting
A proposed internal ledger that converts a Smart Bench’s solar generation, a building’s avoided emissions, or a resident’s verified recycling into a countable, sensor-backed credit — an ESG accounting layer, not a cryptocurrency. · 6 min read - R-10The AI Smart Solar Bench: Edge Computing and Micro-Hub Network Protocols
Why the AI layer on every Smart Bench processes on the device itself rather than waiting on a central server — and what that decision buys a network of benches when the connection back to the ICCC actually drops. · 6 min read - E-01What Is a Digital Twin — And Why Does Your Property Need One?
Before you commission a 3D replica of a building, it helps to know what a digital twin actually is and where it earns its cost. · 6 min read - E-02Reading a Set of Working Drawings: A Client's Guide to CAD Blueprints
Working drawings look intimidating until you know what each sheet is actually telling you. · 7 min read - E-03MEP Planning 101: Why Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing Can't Be an Afterthought
MEP is the invisible infrastructure that decides whether a commercial building actually works on day one. · 6 min read - E-05Cold Storage & Climate-Controlled Design for Future Infrastructure
Cold storage design sits at the intersection of architecture, refrigeration engineering, and food science. · 6 min read - E-06From Site Visit to Sanctioned Plan: The Municipal Approval Process
Municipal approval is where a design becomes a legally buildable project — here's what typically happens between the two. · 5 min read - E-07Virtual Tours vs. Digital Twins: Choosing the Right PropTech Tier for Your Listing
More panoramic viewpoints and more precision cost more — the right tier depends on what the property actually needs to sell or lease. · 5 min read - E-08Real Estate Brokerage Commissions in India, Explained
Commission structures are one of the least explained parts of buying, selling, or leasing property — here is how they typically work. · 5 min read - E-10Off-Grid Smart Furniture: What Solar Nodes Mean for Campus and City Planning
A new category of self-powered public furniture is turning benches, bus stops and plazas into small pieces of connected infrastructure. · 5 min read
Published research
Cite the ArthAxis Planning Theory
PUBLISHED RESEARCH · DOI
ArthAxis Planning Theory: Reading a Site at Every Scale Before Drawing a Line
Yatish Parashar · The Great Indian Campus / iViRTH · Preprint · 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Parashar, Y. (2024). ArthAxis Planning Theory & Technique — A Regenerative Spiral Model for Urban and Regional Design (Version v1) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21222939
Categories
What the Drafting Table covers
PropTech & Digital Twins
Plain-language guides to twins, virtual tours and the tiers between them.
Industry Deep-Dives
Cold storage, MEP planning and off-grid smart furniture for campus and city planning.
Real Estate Advisory
What goes into a commission, so you can read a quote with confidence.
ArthAxis Research Lab
Planning theory, quantitative models and applied-physics frameworks behind every deployment.
Figures
The frameworks, drawn
Open any figure to read its paper.
