Project
The search for serenity
Year: 2023
Category: Public Architecture
Skills: Photoshop, Midjourney, Dall-e
The narrative of the project follows the turning steps from the 80/20% concrete/green city of today to the profound blending of nature with the built environment, shown backwards. In the search for optimality, the known shapes of nature enlighten the solutions. With absolute efficiency, the serene geometries define the convergence limit of each intelligent algorithm with the ultimate goal of finding optimality.The project leads the reader to a sequence of images, correlated to stages of evolution towards the greater cause: harmony. Take what you have and transform, both yourself and your home. Start with the roofs, plant seeds, let a forest grow on top of them and turn the underneath building into a vegetal infrastructure. The old buildings, the city we know today, are now the soil and civilization is rising above it, both physically and metaphorically. Plant a tree and then plant your home. Let it grow as a fruit, hanging from the branches. Natural means alive. Nature-oriented architecture refers to buildings that grow, learn and evolve. Let them outgrow the classic term of a building and transform into artificial nature, where artificial means guided by humanity.
Zoom in on living in the nature-oriented cities
In the last phase, profound blending of nature with the built environment is achieved. Shapes derive from leaves, ants and bees structures. The city is an organic colony.
Zoom out on living in the nature-oriented cities
The city and the forest are alike, constantly transforming, blending in an unified image. Home for many species, from humans to birds and insects, the settlements of each life being differ in scale while sharing similar structures. Midjourney prompt: city of Copenhagen with forest on rooftops in a sunny day, realistic, parametric architecture
Living in the nature-oriented rural areas
Cubic houses are hanging as fruits from huge brownian trees branches in rural areas. Midjourney prompt: people living in leaves as ants colonies architecture, superealistic
Changing the contemporary building: forest layer
Start with the roofs, plant seeds, let a forest grow on top of them and turn the underneath building into a vegetal infrastructure. Dall-e prompt: facade with large windows and vegetation, parametric design, futuristic, fantastic, with warm light rays coming in, surrealist, fairytale, mysterious, blending in nature, wood
Intermediary step towards nature-oriented cities
Midjourney prompt: people living in leaves as ants colonies in a brownian tree pattern, city architecture, eye level view, futuristic
Reaching serenity
Midjourney prompt: urban meditation cabin levitating high tech in 2200
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