Tag: AI

Ioana Drogeanu

Towards a ‘Non-Universal’ Architecture: Designing with Others through Gestures (1:1 Scale) | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024ioana.drogeanu.18@ucl.ac.uk Click To See Thesis The project highlights the collaborative potential of digital tools in creating deeply personal and culturally resonant architectural experiences by integrating intangible cultural heritage into tangible forms. By tracing Spanish cultural gestures at a 1:1 scale in VR, we embed personal traces directly into architectural elements. Co-authorship with

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Austin McGrath

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence Education | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024austin.mcgrath.22@ucl.ac.uk The Institute is an avant-garde approach to participatory design processes. Conceived as a hyper-contextual latent space, the project harnesses the voices of the very visitors that flock to Gaudí’s renowned Sagrada Familia basilica and its adjacent park – a verdant oasis that offers respite from the Barcelona sun pre- and post-visit. Audaciously sited at the periphery

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Alexandros Photiou

Corazón De La Comunidad: Sequential Generation | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024alexandros.photiou.22@ucl.ac.uk Located on the “Aguas Park”, in the sequentially created Eixample district of Barcelona, this project proposes a novel approach to a community centre, in which the programme revolves around the creation of a community centre which supports and facilitates the cohabitation and interaction of children and the elderly. By utilizing a series of modular spaces, the proposal

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Michaelia Zheng

All’s Well That Ends Well | Florence, Italy | Unit 21 | 2023 Inspired by the history of local weather research and development in Florence, the project takes the Fondazione Osservatorio Ximeniano and the Museo Galileo as its main references to envisage a new meteorological observatory, research and meteorological history archive centre on the north bank of the Arno River. In this vision, the centre would serve local residents, tourists,

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Neel Depala

Re – Dressing Florence | Florence, Italy | Unit 21 | 2023 The design process has been disrupted dramatically with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of its most evident applications is text-to-image-based image generation. Furthermore, this can be combined with current procedural and generative modelling methods, such as shape grammars and L-systems. Notably, Mid-Journey is a generative software system capable of creating image art from textual descriptions.

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Jonathan Zhu

Hidden in Stereopsis | Florence, Italy | Unit 21 | 2023 This project investigates the use of computer vision ML techniques to create a piece of architecture on a site and city obsessed with the human act of looking. It proposes a paediatric ophthalmology specialist research and treatment centre open to the public by the 14th Century Torre de Niccolò, an ancient watchtower of the municipality previously as a part

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Natalia Michalowska

Parole Composte | Florence, Italy | Unit 21 | 2023 “Parole Composte” is a project that investigates the possibility, as Junya Ishigami stated, of embodying in architecture what was never considered architecture before, which, in my design, is expressed through words. The aim of the project was to explore the potential of designing through conversation, using scripts that translate words into shapes and engaging in dialogue with ChatGPT. My architectural

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Austin McGrath

Florence Political Forum : Exploring Politics, AI, and the Uncanny | Florence, Italy | Unit 21 | 2023 This project explores how artificial intelligence can be implemented into the design process and aims to play with the weirdness, quirkiness, and uncanny nature of the near-perfect state of AI. It does all of this through the lens of a political education forum within the city of Florence, Italy. Multidimensional Coffee Table

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Chengbin Shou

Veniceland | Venice, Italy | Unit 21 | 2020 Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th Year work Awarded Distinction for Thesis Venezianella Castle, Veniceland 2020 A series of problems, such as natural disasters, over-tourism and self-contradictions, have posed massive threats on Venice. Countless politicians, scholars, and civic organisations have tried to save this historical city, but the future looks bleak. After rejecting the conventional solution, I assume that

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Julian Besems

CreateGalleries.py | Venice, Italy | Unit 21 | 2020 Awarded Distinction for Design & Distinction for Thesis Awarded The Bartlett Medal Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th year work Click to zoom in -> Optimisation through Fragmentation in VeniceThis project is centred around the concept of how technologies that determine the way in which the digital environment is navigated could start to inform the built environment. The primary topic that is taken

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