the ai edit™ 3: extremophilic

This series argues for the urgent need to rethink our built environment, freed from modernist dogmas including purity of form, cleanliness and sterility. We propose an architecture that is not too distant from the natural world in which it resides. Biological materials and processes inform some of the studies herein, while others portray an architecture that can grow, take in and provide sustenance, and decay. Extremophilic architecture is often messy instead of pure, wild instead of ordered, dirty and even putrid instead of clean and sterile.

While we use generative AI as a means to bypass traditional training as an architect, and the deeply ingrained habits and tenets that accompany such, the tool used is not the message.