DELIRIOUS FACADE
LAMAS
R E S E A R C H
DESIGNER
LAMAS
Delirious Facade is a design research project by LAMAS that uses image-processing artificial intelligence as a generator for architectural form and ornament. The project manipulates existing Toronto facades and uses their visual signatures as the material for hybrid facades created with Google’s open-source DeepDream algorithm. In short, the project “face swaps” by asking the computer to hallucinate one
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building in the image of another. The resulting facades are contextual, but they relate to historical precedent in ways that are not tied down to dominant formal narratives: They are equally at odds with modernism and postmodernism. If anything, they are altermodern, forged in heterochrony, in medias res, and embody the present moment in all its delirium.