Solo exhibition by Assistant Professor, Dr. Lamila Simišić Pašić
PORTAL TO (IM)POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE
Venue: Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 25th of February 2022 at 6 PM
Curated by: Nermina Zildzo and Elma Hodzic
Reviewers: Emeritus Professor Stjepan Ros and Prof. Dr. Figen Gul
Portal to (Im)possible Architecture – explores the esthetical potential of the never constructed architectural projects donated to the city of Sarajevo for the city's reconstruction by Alsop, Ando, Himmelblau, Meier, Miralles, Nouvel, Lebbeus Woods, Ros and Rogers, among others. The author used the projects as a data set to understand how they might affect the shape of our built environment.
Generative Machine Learning techniques, consisting of generator and discriminator, are used to generate new instances of architecture that resemble a training set of never-built architectural projects given or designed for city reconstruction. Through the involvement of AI in the process of creation, the architect was able to explore the space of 512 dimensions of brand new architecture with characteristics of never-built architecture. Reviewing latent space in a sample outcome, the architect played the role of curator. The author explored underlying compositional characteristics of one domain by transferring it to another one. By changing the values which flow-through latent space, different details occur. The final product is a moving picture with characteristics of the unknown; something that is not specific to common architectural practice.
This exhibition explores the beautiful experience of what the model learned from the data set, what it sees and represents as possible architecture. The work comprises a hallucinogenic voyage that is picturing an unbuilt architecture, sits between dreams and reality, the virtual and the material.
The exhibition has a documentary and visionary character presented through several video installations.
Projects used for the data set are designed by:
Jean Nouvel, William Alsop, Tadao Ando, Henri Ciriani, Coop Himmelblau, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Richard Meier, Enric Miralles, Dominique Perrault, Boris Podrecca, Christian de Portzamparc, Richard Rogers, Tanja & Stjepan Ros, Philippe Starck, Lebbeus Woods, Urban Future.
