L’AI ET LOUIS

ARCH 317 | FALL 2021 (3rd year) - TRAITS of Neobaroque PUBLICATION

Role: Research | Design | Representation | Physical Model

Software: Google Colab, Photoshop, Houdini, Keyshot

This project explores the correlation between architecture and graffiti from the perspective of AI and semiotics. The main focus of the study is the facade and its meanings, which we began exploring through the lens of Eisenman’s canonical argument about the architectural sign. Here, the facade becomes a motivator, a mobilizer, and a disruptor changing the architecture in intricate ways and at the same time conveying different relationships. If a facade is inherently a system of signs, and if graffiti is a cultural sign, the two should mix well together. The objects were mainly derived using VQgan, where the text prompts act as the signs of materiality derived from our cultural definition of what a particular object is based on what is available on the internet. The resulting image was three dimensionalized and analyzed through the process of semantic segmentation.