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Sovrani, Piero

GPI examines how Post-Internet practices can influence architecture's relation- ship with the image world and rethink the mediation of design through digital technologies. In an era where architects are inundated with visual data, the disconnect between information and authorship has grown larger and larger. In this phase of the project, Post-Internet methods of working with images are studied to understand how digital information's mutability is employed to re- negotiate notions of authorship and individuality. Through this lens, the project proposes an adaptive, curatorial approach to architecture, where meaning is constructed through processes of selection and recombination rather than purely authored creation. GPII builds on the cultural conditions of the web: an endless, mutable database of images in constant states of extraction, repurposing, and proliferation. Concepts such as information saturation, ubiquitous authorship, infinite reproducibility, and attention as currency shape the project's design and aesthetic processes. Vancouver Library Square—designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 1995—is selected as a site, itself acting as a repository of architectural "moments" and stylistic amalgamations. Following a three-phase loop of retrieval, curation, and dissemination, 36 photographs of the library were taken, cleaned, and used to create an image database. Architectural references were extracted using Chat G P T, and a new dataset of 36 images was generated with MidJourney. These synthesized images were then translated into architectural line drawings and 3D models, inserted into a re-imagined plan and section of the existing library. The resulting project proposes a new kind of architectural archive, where the layering of past and new moments creates a saturated, dynamic addition to Library Square.

Graduating Project

eng

2025-05-01

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90931

UBCV

Graduate

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