The Grid - Extended Edition
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.” Revelation 21:1 My goal with this work was to create an experience of using AI in an architect's creative process. The concept was of architecture possible in the next 200 years, so I created the concept of The Grid. The Grid is basically a virtual universe (like metaverse) where people, voluntarily, decided to abandon their physical lives to live in a virtual universe, where everything is customized and each person lives a reality that directly corresponds to what they most want, like a perfect world, or almost. At the same time, part of society decided to oppose this, isolating itself in self-sustaining cities, where people disconnected from technology and live like we did about 10 years ago. In this way, distributing themselves in a more sustainable way of life and in a way to face the problems and not run away from them. The idea of the Grid acts as an expanded simulacrum of our current reality, where what we see and what we don't see depends on algorithms , where the main selection factor is to make the user spend as much time as possible connected and thus collect data that is later sold. In such a way, it seems natural that in view of an imminent future in this scenario, some opposition to the status quo will arise. I represented it by using Ai images and 3D models in a 3D rendering in Lumion. The text is important to me, as I think I can express myself better by writing. By the same token, I really enjoyed creating images using the AI's because I can use my best form of communication to create images. For this project, I used several AI's such as Mid Journey, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, Coherent (not used in this presentation here) and AI Image Enlarger, after that I polished the images in the Photoshop. At the end of the text, I tell my conclusion about the experience of using AI as a design tool. To carry out this work I used a technique of creating images in various artificial intelligences and then refining them with the Image to Image tool of Stable Diffusion, thus achieving much more realistic and detailed images. (I'm from Brazil so, I want to apologize for my english). This project was conceived for the subject "Project 5 - Building in height", during stage 3, called Utopia, where the teachers encouraged us to create a utopian or dystopian world and imagine how this utopia would affect architecture in the future. The entire project was carried out by me (Matheus Rudo) and was guided by professors Cynthia Nojimoto and Ludimilla Santos, from the University of Brasília, in Brazil. I am a student of the architecture and urbanism course at the University of Brasilia. In this edition of this project, I'll make available the story behind The Grid and all of it's mysteries. Please, enjoy. Note 1: If you don't wanna know the story, proceed to the images.
Tropicália Portal
This project was developed for the subject "Architecture Project 5 - High Rise Building". The project was entirely conceived by the group. Currently (2024), we are architecture students at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Brasilia, in Brazil. The project was carried out during the ninth semester of the course. Group members: Alana Menezes Caldas Daniele Feliciano da Mota Fabiana Bitar Resende Malu Fernandes de Faria Matheus Rudo Antoniassi Pereira de Oliveira Millena de Menezes Dutra Advisors: Ludmilla Santos de Andrade Cynthia Nojimoto The Tropicália Portal is an architectural complex that brings together inspirations from São Paulo and great Brazilian architects. The project is composed of two buildings: the Malfatti Residential Complex and the Tarsila Commercial Complex. The name makes reference to the Tropicália cultural movement, which emerged in the 1960s in Brazil and had as its proposal the mixture of different cultural elements, such as music, art, literature, and politics. The Malfatti Residential Complex was a structural challenge and counted on the inspiration of great names of Brazilian architecture, such as Oscar Niemeyer and Rosa Kliass. Steel cables were used between the balcony beams and the central pillars to provide greater interlock and stability, and to reduce buckling and torsion in that region of the structure. The building is a tribute to Italian-Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi, who designed MASP, the São Paulo Art Museum. The Tarsila Commercial Complex has a much simpler floor structure, without the need for balcony beams. The goal is that the small projections on the balconies are used for vegetation, creating a more pleasant and sustainable environment. The name is a reference to the modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral, one of the main representatives of the Brazilian anthropophagic movement, which also proposed the mixing of different cultures and traditions. The Tropicália Portal project counted on the analysis of three faces of São Paulo: the city we have, the city we want, and the city we will have. The surrounding works were studied to respect the project's implementation, and architectural works that dialog with the project's message were analyzed, representing the architecture and admired sights of the city, such as the Copan building, the cable-stayed bridge, and the exuberant landscape designed by Rosa Kliass in the Anhangabaú valley. The WOHA office was also a source of inspiration. With an efficient vertical circulation system, the project contributes to the city's urban mobility and becomes an integral part of São Paulo's urban landscape. The Tropicália Portal is an example of how architecture can be used to create more functional, pleasant, and sustainable urban spaces.
The Grid
My goal with this work was to create an experience of using AI in an architect's creative process. The concept was of architecture possible in the next 200 years, so I created the concept of The Grid. The Grid is basically a virtual universe (like metaverse) where people, voluntarily, decided to abandon their physical lives to live in a virtual universe, where everything is customized and each person lives a reality that directly corresponds to what they most want, like a perfect world, or almost. At the same time, part of society decided to oppose this, isolating itself in self-sustaining cities, where people disconnected from technology and live like we did about 10 years ago. In this way, distributing themselves in a more sustainable way of life and in a way to face the problems and not run away from them. The idea of the Grid acts as an expanded simulacrum of our current reality, where what we see and what we don't see depends on algorithms , where the main selection factor is to make the user spend as much time as possible connected and thus collect data that is later sold. In such a way, it seems natural that in view of an imminent future in this scenario, some opposition to the status quo will arise. I represented it by using Ai images and 3D models in a 3D rendering in Lumion. The text is important to me, as I think I can express myself better by writing. By the same token, I really enjoyed creating images using the AI's because I can use my best form of communication to create images. For this project, I used several AI's such as Mid Journey, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, Coherent (not used in this presentation here) and AI Image Enlarger, after that I polished the images in the Photoshop. At the end of the text, I tell my conclusion about the experience of using AI as a design tool. To carry out this work I used a technique of creating images in various artificial intelligences and then refining them with the Image to Image tool of Stable Diffusion, thus achieving much more realistic and detailed images. (I'm from Brazil so, I want to apologize for my english).
Asian Studies Center - University of Brasília
The proposal "towards a neo -original architecture" presents the creation of the Center for Asian Studies (Ceasia) as an architectural model based on seven principles that integrate tradition, innovation, sustainability and cultural identity. Developed as a diplomation work at FAU-UNB, The project proposes a critical response to the homogenization of modern architecture, rescuing original constructive techniques - both Brazilian and Asian - to conceive a space that respects the environment, values history and dialogue with the present. The original neo architecture emerges as a new design paradigm, which proposes buildings such as living organisms, deeply rooted in the local and cultural context, articulating sustainable materials, bioclimatic practices and a transdisciplinary appeal. CEASIA, in addition to supplying Neasia's infrastructure deficiency at UnB, seeks to be a symbolic and functional space of convergence between Brazil and Asia, Materializing, through architecture, a cultural, academic and environmental link.
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