{"id":12250,"date":"2024-06-23T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2024-06-23T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T11:28:05","slug":"austin-mcgrath-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12250","title":{"rendered":"Austin McGrath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>The Institute of Artificial Intelligence Education  | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024<br>austin.mcgrath.22@ucl.ac.uk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 Gaud\u00ed\u2019s renowned Sagrada Familia basilica and its adjacent park &#8211; a verdant oasis that offers respite from the Barcelona sun pre- and post-visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audaciously sited at the periphery of this iconic precinct, much like the onsite workers\u2019 school, the building emerges from a novel methodology. By scraping the web for tourists\u2019 whispers, a corpus of vernacular experiences is synthesised into an architectural form via machine learning. Through backpropagation, an iterative dialogue is enacted between algorithm, visitor, and architect &#8211; a tripartite collaborative model where each agent is regarded as an equal partner. The culminating artifact is a 512 x 512 pixel visualisation that immerses the viewer in an experiential experience. Within this simulated latent space, one witnesses the designer\u2019s authorship, the tourists\u2019 spoken word, and the machinic processes that choreographed their integration. This body of speculative work charts new frontiers for AI-augmented, crowdsourced placemaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/960488218?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_01\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Latent Samples of the Institute<\/strong><br>The video unveils the institute&#8217;s hyper-contextual latent space, where whispers of past tourists linger, shaping the proposed building. Visitors&#8217; transient presence sculpts the urban fabric, their words breathing life into the architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"12256\"  src=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_05.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Model of Spoken Word<\/strong><br>The model depicts tourist site usage via structure heights indicating word volume spoken per area. YouTube vlog transcripts captured visitors&#8217; experiences, informing the architectural intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:177.78% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/960488313?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_02\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Latent Samples<\/strong><br>This video explores how sampling a latent space can be used as a design tool to refine a design as opposed to a traditional design tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12253\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_04.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Hyper-Contextual Latent Space<\/strong><br>The model depicts a Hyper-Contextual Latent Space shaped by tourists&#8217; whispered comments on-site. Their whispers were gathered by transcribing location-tagged YouTube vlogs, capturing transient experiences that informed the architectural intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/960488362?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Bartlett_Summer_2024_MArch_PG21_Austin_McGrath_03\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Orthographic Drawing<\/strong><br>To turn an image into a 3D space, orthographic drawings make up the traditional tool for an architect. How can we design with orthographic drawings while using a latent workflow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Gaud\u00ed\u2019s renowned Sagrada Familia basilica and its adjacent park &#8211; a verdant oasis that offers respite from the Barcelona sun pre- and post-visit. Audaciously sited at the periphery<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn read-more-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12250\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[754,755,277,762],"tags":[632,454,536,734,628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12259,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions\/12259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}