Ahzin (she/her) is an architectural designer based in Cambridge, MA. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cooper Union, and she is in the midst of collecting and connecting through SMArchS AD program at MIT.

Her work explores putting porous boundaries between things at various scales and materiality. She is currently exploring sticky and stinky themes of comfort, air conditionoing, and sweat while working on a collaborative world building project, temporarily titled “surreal suburb” through a design collective, Unihoro Supply.    





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Heat Faxer
  • Fax Heat
  • Site: (40.36,-71.09)
  • Project timeline: 2024-
  • Author: Ahzin Nam 


Contemporary media often center sight and sound, shaping presence through screens and speech. But what if intimacy could be mediated through thermal sensation? A 'heat faxer' reimagines communication as affective transmission, where temperature becomes signal and presence is no longer visual or verbal but embodied. In this framework, heat functions as a medium that is ephemeral, tactile, and atmospheric, capable of conveying emotional proximity across physical distance.













The prototype







Converting electricty to body heat