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Geological Adversarial Network of Shelters Gan.Os101

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Programme
Research Cluster RC16
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  • B-Pro Urban Design Gold Medal

Gan.Os 101 is a speculative project that proposes to reimagine the intersection of architecture and landscape, the role of artificial intelligence and biological intelligence in re-designing ecologies and existence of humans and non-humans as co-creators of a new fabric.


This project uses the generative, adversarial network models as a methodology to generate new landscape features.


The morphological research spans from studying slime moulds' ability in forming shortest path networks and usage of StyleGan to imagine evolution of the landscape data collected. To build a co-existence, anything outside of human consciousness is conceived as the non-human, that has its own agency of intelligence; deployed to design speculative deep ground structures in the project.


The project is a research based on the Kamchatka Islands of Russia, a volcano active site. Volcano eruptions seem to be an immediate destructive catastrophe but play a large role in fertilising and evolving the existing landscape. Thus, the research proposes to shelter ecosystems found in a volatile environment by redesigning the landscape strata. Volcanic ash from such eruptions act as propagator for growth of microorganisms like algae. This is used to propose architectural spaces as symbiotic sheltering landscape for humans non-humans found on the island.

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Project Overview

Analysis of Kamchatka island

Analysis of Kamchatka island

Generating Landscape Evolution through Style GAN

Generating Landscape Evolution through Style GAN

Prototypical Study - Biofuel Generating Topography

Deep ground structures are studied in prototypical parts to design new systems of sheltering ecologies.

Architectural Scale of the Sheltering Landscape

The architectural scale focuses on a substrate based design that allows growth of non-human forms over it.

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Geological Adversarial Network (GAN) Studies

Slime Mould Growth Network for Shelter Distribution

Slime Mould Growth Network for Shelter Distribution

Process of Generating Point Clouds to Design New Topographies

Initial Topography of Algae Production

Shelter Network Distribution on Volcano Active Site

A site that hints of recent volcanic activity is taken to propose distribution of the topography through previous GAN studies.

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Deep Ground Structures

Prototypical Section I

This section explores the distribution of different types of microorganisms in the landscape that is partly above the ground and majorly below the ground.

Prototypical Section II - Hydrothermal Deep Ground

This ground section explores the ecology that supports hydrothermal fluids, the coexistence of species that live at higher temperatures and the formation of different soil layers and mineral deposition.

Prototypical Section III

This section explores the existence of a structure that is above the water dealing with the ebb and flow of the context, showing how a sheltering system can exist in various conditions of a volatile environment.

Sheltering Ecologies

The redesign of an underground strata completely redefines the morphology of the existing landscape in Kamchatka.

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Architectural Scale of Shelters + Material Experiment

Material Experiment

A compression moulding system is derived to cast clay enumerating the details of the sectional morphology.

Component Combination

A single component was used to derive a complex structure representing a new topographical morphology.

Underwater Structure

This morphology supports the coexistence of algae, corals and the non-human species that prefer to coexist with them.

Hydrothermal Deep Ground Morphological Details

This part of the section shelters ecology supported by underground hydrothermal fluids.

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Analysis of Kamchatka

Layout of Kamchatka Mountains and Volcanoes

Ecological Reading of Kamchatka

Ecological Reading of Kamchatka

Stylegan is used to generate changes the Kamchatka island goes through as an ecology by collecting satellite earth engine datasets.

Impact of Volcanoes

Impact of volcanic eruptions are studied in terms of the radius of the local impact.

Coverage of Volcanic Ash

Coverage of volcanic ash is studied in terms of time and speed.

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