Digital Architect
Urbandrone
Generative art and interactive works by Jawhari Zaki, architect and founder of Urbandrone
Selected works
All artworks · 84
- 2026ArtLux LauncherSoftware · installer · updater · Windows · Tauri · Rust · show controlA small Windows companion that installs, updates and starts ArtLux on a venue machine — the piece a technician runs so the console itself never has to be set up by hand.
- 2026ArtLuxSoftware · pixel mapping · Art-Net · sACN · projection mapping · spatial audio · Electron · Rust · WebGPUArtLux is a professional addressable-LED pixel-mapping console for Windows, macOS and Linux — a MadMapper-class tool for driving RGB/RGBW LED rigs. Sample colour from video, images, a live camera, incoming DMX or a Spout/NDI stream; lay fixtures out in 2D and 3D; and stream the result to the hardware over Art-Net or sACN/E1.31 with a native, threaded output engine.
- 2026Plotter3DSoftware · pen plotter · SVG · 3D · drawing machines · ElectronPlotter3D turns a 3D model into pen-plotter drawings. Load a scene, set up the camera and the line treatment, and export clean SVG paths ready for an AxiDraw, a HP plotter or any machine that speaks SVG.
- 20263DVIZ — SketchUp & Rhino to TwinmotionCourse manual · architectural visualisation · Twinmotion · SketchUp · Rhino 3D · bilingual EN/FR · design studioA complete bilingual (EN/FR) production manual for architectural visualisation, written for design-studio students in years 2 and 3. Fourteen chapters follow the real order of production — set up, model, export, import, light, render — from SketchUp and Rhino 3D into Twinmotion 2026, plus a reference section with a 95-entry student FAQ, a 41-symptom troubleshooting index and a 56-term bilingual glossary. Roughly 66,000 words across the two languages.
About
Urbandrone is the studio and lab of Jawhari Zaki, an architect who has spent almost two decades asking how urban space is perceived through the senses — first in buildings, then in light, sound and code.
The work here follows that question into architecture fiction: generative pieces minted on Tezos, interactive systems built for public space, and the instruments made along the way — ArtLux, Plotter3D and the course manuals in the Lab — shared for others to use.