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DEMO PROJECT









CONCEPT


AltaSea is a public-private ocean institute based at the Port of Los Angeles, focused on marine science, climate solutions, and sustainable innovation. The organization required a new robotics research facility that could support oceanic drone testing, data analysis, and public engagement. The architectural brief included laboratories, flexible office and fabrication spaces, and a public interface that could reflect AltaSea’s mission-driven ethos and industrial waterfront context.

This proposal grounds itself in real operational needs: Robustness, adaptability, and visibility, while leveraging speculative design methods to produce a novel architectural language. The form obscures itself from inmediate understanding by speculating on a plausible drape: A new, strange material that covers the building and acts as a double-skin facade. 



    ANTEDILUVIAN CITADEL


    This Project explores how to code a building into existence. Instead of directly modeling the design, We developed a layered system: Narrative-driven procedurally generating volume, resolving circulation, facade, fenestration, and structure through successive computational steps, making the process infinitely replicable given any context.











      ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS AESTHETIC MEDIATOR


      Throughout, atmospheric and tectonic cues are fed back into the loop via texture-generation models. Further experimentation used SDXL combined with various LLMs (chiefly ChatGPT 4o) to art-direct the evolving project; producing speculative renderings that informed materiality, lighting conditions, and spatial mood. 



        CONCEPT


        AltaSea is a public-private ocean institute based at the Port of Los Angeles, focused on marine science, climate solutions, and sustainable innovation. The organization required a new robotics research facility that could support oceanic drone testing, data analysis, and public engagement. The architectural brief included laboratories, flexible office and fabrication spaces, and a public interface that could reflect AltaSea’s mission-driven ethos and industrial waterfront context.

        This proposal grounds itself in real operational needs: Robustness, adaptability, and visibility, while leveraging speculative design methods to produce a novel architectural language. The form obscures itself from inmediate understanding by speculating on a plausible drape: A new, strange material that covers the building and acts as a double-skin facade.