{"id":12881,"date":"2026-06-26T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:21:46","slug":"joan-borrell-ribas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12881","title":{"rendered":"Joan Borrell-Ribas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Campo Incompiuto \u2018Unfinished Field | Modena, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Campo Incompiuto \u2018Unfinished Field\u2019 reinterprets Aldo Rossi\u2019s unfinished field of San Cataldo Cemetery through weaving, machine learning, environmental data, and Modena\u2019s identity as an internationally recognised city of media arts. The project begins with craft as a form of inherited intelligence, using weaving to explore interlacing, repetition, deformation, and variation. These logics are translated into a Pix2Pix GAN workflow, where AI is treated not as a replacement for making, but as a system that learns from tradition and extends it into new architectural possibilities.<br>Rossi\u2019s drawings are overlaid, fragmented, processed through the GAN, and reassembled as an evolving tiled field. Each tile becomes part of a larger landscape system, shifting between structure, ground, planting, water, and media intervention. In this way, AI becomes a tool for working with incompletion rather than resolving it. The cemetery\u2019s unbuilt condition is transformed into a civic landscape where memory, preservation, craft, and media arts can coexist.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chatV3.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\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\/1204516925?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"JoanBorrellRibas_Y4_Film\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><br>Through Campo Incompiuto<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:70.63% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1204516941?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479&amp;autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"3-ezgif.com-gif-to-mp4-converter\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><br><strong>Future Tile Expansion Views<\/strong><br>Sequence of renders showing how the tile system allows the project to grow incrementally over time. Each new tile can be added through future funding, sponsorship, or cultural demand, linking architectural expansion to a controlled economic strategy.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:70.73% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1204516953?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479&amp;autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"4-ezgif.com-gif-to-mp4-converter\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><br><strong>From GAN Output to Physical Drawing<\/strong><br>The tiled Pix2Pix outputs are reassembled into a complete site drawing, vectorised into linework, and laser cut at 1:100 scale. The physical test makes the density, perforation, and detail of the AI-generated field easier to read and evaluate.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:70.73% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1204516968?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479&amp;autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"5-ezgif.com-gif-to-mp4-converter\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><br>From GAN Drawing to Excavated Landscape<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campo Incompiuto \u2018Unfinished Field | Modena, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Campo Incompiuto \u2018Unfinished Field\u2019 reinterprets Aldo Rossi\u2019s unfinished field of San Cataldo Cemetery through weaving, machine learning, environmental data, and Modena\u2019s identity as an internationally recognised city of media arts. 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