Project information

  • Category: applied ai research
  • instructors: benjamin ennemoser
  • contributors: dipinti kapoor | kaushil shah
  • tools: cycleGAN, Pix2pix, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite

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  • Curation of datasets of aerial orthographic images for anthropogenic precedents, unprimed, unorganized free of human conceptual bias.
  • Investigate how to generate speculative visions of cityscapes in a post-anthropocene environment using (supervised) Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
  • Document and diagram the results from the speculative process of the ML. Compare and analyze precedents with generated artificial hybrids. Detect and categorize elements of the hybrid-cityscape and build a taxonomy of architectural archetypes. Further, distill the DNA in terms of scale, density, demographics, topology, materiality and infrastructure.

SYNTHETIC WORLD BUILDING using deep convolution neural networks: cycleGAN and pix2pix to predict a 30-year anthropocene for an Icelandic site. The study involved an urban scale extrapolation through the aforementioned training techniques.

site transition

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synthetic site

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