LO-11-Women Practitioners

Jenny Sabin Studio, Ada, 2018-2019. 

Ada is a project by Jenny Sabin’s studio for the Microsoft Research Artist in Residence program. The project was named after Ada Lovelace, one of the first computer programmers and a woman as well. This project uses AI and architecture to create an interactive pavilion using responsive photo-luminescence. The project uses 3d printed nodes to connect fiberglass rods, with a knitted main structure that contains the responsive aspects of the pavilion.  

This project was fascinating to me in its manipulation of what architecture tends to be– static. The pavilion constantly changes in response to the clients it is made for–humans. Thus, the pavilion explores the bounds on which architecture can morph in real time as a response to human stimulus and movements. By integrating the light responsive aspect, the pavilion has yet another transformative variable that generates constant new experiences of Ada. The exploration Jenny Sabin does in this project introduces the possibilities of architecture that become fluid and almost free form to an extent using real time data sets that respond to the environment. It is inspiring in the ways Jenny Sabin uses Ada and artificial intelligence to connect humans to material forms and thus forming an intimate conversation between the pavilion and us where we are able to communicate through interpreted data.