Text2Forest | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 This project explores language-based machine learning as a generative design tool, positioning artificial intelligence (AI) not as a means of optimisation but as co-author of architecture. At its centre is a fine-tuned language model that translates weather-based text prompts into tree geometries, each shaped by specific environmental conditions. These forms are not predefined but probabilistically generated, embedding ecological logic into their

Fluidscapes | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 Click To See Thesis The project explores how painting can function as an operational design tool, using computer vision’s probabilistic readings to transform abstract paintstrokes into speculative architectural forms. Blurring the boundaries between author and algorithm, a custom-trained object detection system — trained using machine learning to recognise the author’s paint strokes — interprets these strokes, generating outcomes that are not

The Tacheles Pleasure Platz | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 This project develops a methodology that utilises self-organising maps (SOMs), an unsupervised machine learning technique, to uncover data patterns that resist binary categorisation. Rather than isolating these peripheral clusters, the methodology brings them into active relation with normative data, rearticulating the entangled field of information into new spatial and architectural expressions. Embracing AI’s non-deterministic nature, it produces emergent

The Dripworks | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 The Dripworks is a design project set in YangMing National Park, Taiwan, where geothermal activity, mineral accumulation, and dense atmospheric conditions shape both the physical landscape and cultural identity. This project re-imagines geothermal infrastructure as more than an energy system, it becomes an architectural generator, shaped by environmental data over time. Stones and Leaves: Scattered Across the SlopeThe building is conceived

Choreomata | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 The City of London aims to revitalise the area around the Barbican through the Culture Mile initiative, transforming it into a major cultural and creative hub. Key projects include the Centre for Music, the new Museum of London, the redevelopment of Beech Street into a central cultural axis, and a speculative entry: an artist residency named CHOREOMATA. Movement lines from a motion

The Eavesdropper | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 An encrypted archive, decoding erased histories through modern methods of digitisation and reconstruction. Its geometry does not originate from intention, but from interception — recovered from the ruptured traces of Bernauerstraße. Foundation scars of demolished homes and the residual geometries of overlooked green voids form the encrypted base data. These are processed through an architectural cipher, one rooted in the

SchinkelSuperlativ | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 The Bauakademie, Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1836 Berlin-Mitte landmark, will be reconstructed on Schinkelplatz. Demolished in 1962, its revival creates a sustainable construction lab with exhibitions and research. Using photogrammetry, AI, and algorithms, the design honors Schinkel’s vision, integrating a biodiverse riverfront and educational programs, under the mantra of SchinkelSuperlativ. The SchinkelSuperlativ team will craft ceramics and landscapes, engaging students in construction, setting a new

Exploring Analogue Resolution | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 This project explores the role of pencil drawings within the design process, and aims to understand the resolution of analogue media in architectural development and representation. The development of a drawing machine creates complex time-based drawings as the machine responds to the input of the author. The developed methodology has been applied to the unit’s focus in Berlin, and

Bio/DATA Monolith | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 Bio/DATA Monolith transforms the World War II-era Humboldthain Flak Tower in Berlin into a visionary hybrid of digital infrastructure, ecological renewal, and cultural memory. The project reimagines the monolithic bunker as a data center, seed archive, and public library, fusing historical preservation with cutting-edge computational design. Programmatic zoning-driven by agent-based modeling-organises functions while respecting environmental conditions. Historical research, environmental simulations, and

BLUR-GERBEGEHREN | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025 This project explores how the concept of blur can operate as an architectural tool to mediate between boundaries—public and private, protest and institution. Located on Stallschreiberstrasse, a historically charged site along the former Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, it reimagines the Berlin courtyard as a civic landscape. Using Google Street View panoramas and depth data, a point cloud is generated to form