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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.
Deep ground structures are studied in prototypical parts to design new systems of sheltering ecologies.
The architectural scale focuses on a substrate based design that allows growth of non-human forms over it.
A site that hints of recent volcanic activity is taken to propose distribution of the topography through previous GAN studies.
This section explores the distribution of different types of microorganisms in the landscape that is partly above the ground and majorly below the 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.
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.
The redesign of an underground strata completely redefines the morphology of the existing landscape in Kamchatka.
A compression moulding system is derived to cast clay enumerating the details of the sectional morphology.
A single component was used to derive a complex structure representing a new topographical morphology.
This morphology supports the coexistence of algae, corals and the non-human species that prefer to coexist with them.
This part of the section shelters ecology supported by underground hydrothermal fluids.
Stylegan is used to generate changes the Kamchatka island goes through as an ecology by collecting satellite earth engine datasets.
Impact of volcanic eruptions are studied in terms of the radius of the local impact.
Coverage of volcanic ash is studied in terms of time and speed.