Offline

Airform, without a network

The update and its slide show, the memo and the simulators, in a desktop app that runs with no Wi-Fi at all, and catches up with the site whenever it’s online.

Download

The first build hasn’t been published yet.

Your sync code

Open the update on the front page first; the sync code is here once it’s unlocked.

What it carries

  • The updateWhat has happened since the memo, with the New York building and the grid simulator
  • The memoWhy the grid is blocked, the machine that gets around it, and the fleet it builds
  • Grid simulatorLone Tree and Brentwood, California, on their worst evening
  • Weather labStorms bearing down on the islands, and what the fleet does through them
  • ManhattanA battery in every window: the PTAC and window-unit sleeves, dispatched as one fleet
  • San FranciscoRow houses on gas furnaces, electrified home by home
  • OʻahuAn island that burns oil for its evenings, and a battery in every home
  • MauiMāʻalaea's engines and the central valley's solar
  • MolokaʻiOne island grid on Pālāʻau's diesel
  • LānaʻiLa Ola's solar and Miki Basin's engines
  • KauaʻiA cooperative's solar, storage and hydro
  • Hawaiʻi IslandGeothermal from the rift zone, oil for the evenings
  • Hunter's Point South Commons1,277 PTACs out, Airforms with batteries in, the boiler room gone
  • The Caledonia1,009 PTACs on vacuum steam, and the cellar's boilers retired
  • A Doelger in the Outer SunsetA fog-belt house with Airform Wraps at its windows
  • An Italianate Victorian in Noe ValleyIn the lee of Twin Peaks, floor by floor
  • An Edwardian on Bernal HeightsThe hill's north slope, room by room
  • Mānoa Chocolate · KakainaTwo parcels in Waimānalo, solar and cacao, and a year of power and water

Offline it shows the slice as it was last recorded. The maps carry the views the simulators open on; asking the site simulator to draw something new needs a connection.