LO 01: Living Architecture: Casa Batlló

Refik Anadol’s ‘Living Architecture: Casa Batlló’
For a long time, works of Refik Anadol has inspired me and makes one think beyond the world of reality. The specific project developed by him named – Living Architecture: Casa Batlló, uses data collected from the environment around Casa Batlló, an architectural masterpiece designed by Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain. Usually, immersive art is projected to the walls within a building, but in this case the artwork I projected on the exterior, bringing life to the built environment. The artwork itself uses machine learning and Artificial intelligence to replicate the city’s mood by real-time data gathering such as climate or local festival.

In one of Refik’s projects named – Machine Hallucinations: Moma, he uses StyleGAN2 ADA to capture the machine’s hallucinations of modern art in multidimensional space. Looking forward towards the future, such techniques and technologies can provide advanced design synthesis in the field of architecture.

Links:
https://www.designboom.com/art/dynamic-nft-gaudi-casa-batllo-refik-anadol-christies-05-12-2022/
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/658
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada