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Installation May 10, 2025
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Type
Installation

Technology
Machine Learning

Date
May 10, 2025 - November 23, 2025

Location
Arsenale Campo della Tana, Venezia
Artwork Description: 

Living Architecture: Biophilia is an AI Data Sculpture that transforms more than 100 million images of Earth’s diverse flora, fauna, and fungi into immersive, hyper-realistic environmental experiences. This installation brings nature to life in a digital realm, allowing visitors to engage with the Earth’s ecosystems in new ways. The project reimagines ecocentric environmentalism by combining the intelligence of nature, humans, and AI. Accounting for these different forms of intelligence is essential in building adaptive architectures and networks that reflect the complexity of natural systems. Nature’s intelligence, with its complex patterns and processes, offers a blueprint for resilience and adaptability. Human intelligence contributes cultural, emotional, and functional understandings of space and place. AI acts as a bridge, processing vast amounts of data to create dynamic, responsive environments that evolve with their ecosystems. This dialogue between intelligences challenges conventional architectural thinking, encouraging us to design structures and networks that are not only functional but also deeply integrated with the environments they inhabit. By blending art, technology, and environmental data, Living Architecture: Biophilia demonstrates how this intersection can help us envision a future where digital innovation informs the creation of sustainable, intelligent ecosystems—both natural and built.


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This biomorphic forest dwelling features a continuous, flowing shell structure, likely requiring advanced construction like large-scale 3D printing with reinforced biocomposites or complex concrete formwork over deep foundations. Its seamless integration with vegetation, large glazed openings within the organic curves, and cave-like interior spaces present significant structural and waterproofing challenges, pushing boundaries between architecture and natural sculpture.

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