Authors: Daniel Abraham Gandica Hana Čičević This architectural project explores a future in which plants are manufactured in factories controlled by Artificial Intelligence, as opposed to being grown from seeds. The project focuses on the concept of an almost post-human world, in which plants have taken over three abandoned factories located in different climate zones, and repurposed them for their own use. The design of the factories is an exploration of how plants could inhabit such spaces and how they could be adapted for their needs. The project also looks at how the AI could be programmed to control the environment of the factory, including temperature, light and water levels. The factories and the plants create a symbiotic relationship where nature and architecture not only co-exist, but rather co-depend.

Factory 00352 overtaken by Plants

Factory 00352, located in a boreal climate zone was overtaken by the plants soon after an AI malfunction. The original building was designed in the 1920s for the purposes of car manufacturing. It was later repurposed by the Artificial Greenhouse Project.

Lobby area of the factory 00352

Assembly line of the factory 00352

Factory 00732 overtaken by Plants

Factory 00732, located in a temperate climate was overtaken by the plants after a natural disaster prompted the employees to abandon their posts permanently giving the Artificial Greenhouse Project free reign over the facility.

Lobby area of the factory 00732

Assembly line of the factory 00732

Factory 04407 overtaken by Plants

Factory 04407, located in the tropical climate was abandoned after being damaged during a political uprising. After the Artificial Greenhouse Project took some creative liberties on the floral production of the facility, it became a museum for the people of the newly reformed country.

Lobby area of the factory 04407

Assembly line of the factory 04407