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The project explores traditional visual crafts through artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, merging them into an art and research centre on a small island in North-West Berlin. The centre revolves around landscape investigations, aiming to inform the public of ways to preserve the environment. The information displayed and taught in the building, as well as the concept, stem from the AI methodology, proposing a building that constantly updates itself, morphing around the changing landscape. In order to do so, a machine learning methodology is developed throughout the project, collecting visual imagery data about the site from the past and allowing the AI to make predictions about what it may look like in the future. The building then begins to adapt in accordance with the AI predictions.
In order to learn how the landscape changes, colour-coded maps from the 17th century onwards have been fed into StyleGAN, producing a new series of maps that are then placed on a future timeline. The building then adapts according to these changes.
The isometric renders depict the landscape morphing and the building adapting to it over the span of 40 years. The building’s materiality, as well as its construction system (3d printing crane wasps), allow for changes to occur in the spaces.
Renders show the 3D printing crane wasp structure which allows for the building to adapt, as well as atmospheric renders depicting the programme.
Final drawings depicting the building’s structure and inhabitation alongside the 2023 site.
The final film introduces the viewer to the internal spaces by proposing a process of learning about the landscape. One gradually experiences the building before later seeing its full enclosure morphing alongside the landscape.