The proposal focuses on the notion of a hybridised architecture, one constructed both physically and digitally. An architecture that is focused on the production of digital outputs through the navigation of physical inputs.

The design explores the use of the facade/skin of a structure as a new medium for production, through the deployment of the conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) pix2pix. The ‘labels’ (training images) will be anamorphically projected across the festival and each viewer (wearing a live-converting VR headset) will become integrated in the process of reconstructing these labels. Their reconstruction will convert imagery of the site’s previous structures. The colour and form become occupational, changeable and dependent on the position of the viewer.

Though the digital often cuts out the physical, the proposal looks to redraw a new relationship between the two. Though chance or accident may mostly reside in the physical, through the merging of the two, one may produce a constantly unique digital space. Through their imbrication one creates a digital world directly linked to, and wholly dependent on, the physical.