AI & Architecture
An Exhibit at the Arsenal Pavilion
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has already spread to a number of industries and disciplines, giving them the means to face new challenges and enabling operations that used to be too complex. Its use in architecture is still in its first steps, but the first results are promising, showing the way to many new possibilities.
Designed by Stanislas Chaillou, an architect and researcher, the “AI & Architecture” exhibition takes us through the main stages of an evolution that started from the studies on Modularity, Computer-aided Design (CAD), Parametrics and, finally, Artificial Intelligence. It also explores the current scales of experimentation: plans, elevations, structures and perspectives in which AI could already make a contribution, real or speculative.
This event, produced by the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, showcases for the first time the minds who have initiated a dialogue between technology and discipline. It brings together concrete examples, recent results from various fields of research carried out by university labs and international operators to allow everyone to understand the hybridization of practices.
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- Conference ->
- Exhibit Booklet ->
- on Towards Data Science ->
- on ArchDaily ->
- on Le Figaro ->
- on Le Moniteur ->
Bio Morphosis
Nature × Artificial Intelligence
Nature is home to nearly 400,000 plant species. Grouped into large families, their immense morphological variety constitutes an admirable catalog of forms. It is to the representation of this fantastic herbarium that the photographer Karl Blossfeldt has dedicated his work at the turn of the 20th century. Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows us today to decompartmentalize the natural order. With Bio Morphosis, AI cuts across species and usual classifications by transposing biomorphism into the poetic field.
In 1928, Karl Blossfeldt published his first herbarium, “Urformen der Kunst”. This extensive collection of meticulous plant close-up shots is today a significant landmark in the history of Photography. Our work expands on Blossfeldt's ingenious masterpiece. A fascination for the graphical purity and ornamental variety of vegetal patterns drives our investigation.
Bio Morphosis consists of a series of AI-generated animations, giving life to the herbariums. Trained on some of Blossfeldt’s collections, Bio Morphosis uses Artificial Intelligence to recreate astonishing plant hybridizations. Through this new medium, we capture and reveal our flora’s multiple facets, blend its different aspects into an impressionist synthesis. The resulting dynamic simulations blur the boundary between natural forms, categories and species, to reveal our flora’s formal richness.
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