the ai edit™ 2

(re)wilding aesthetics

As creatures on this earth, we once lived in harmony with nature; however, somewhere along the way our mass-schema became distorted, perverted ... it's evident in that seemingly endless sprawlscape that surrounds us, Kunstler's Geography of Nowhere. The countryside we were told “is the Future”, and yet it is already a thing of the past, already desecrated in large parts, made room for “architecture”. Where to go from here? Sustainable design claims to have the answer – although, putting a bunch of plants and trees on balconies does not green architecture make.

In this series, we explore architecture that is informed by geological formations and natural processes, an aesthetics of piles and messy informal assemblages, putrid facades and tumorous additions, alveolic interiors and a few remixes of the iconic maison dom-ino. We intend to convey an alternative to the dominant vision of “sustainable design”, one that sheds the often sterile tendencies of contemporary "green" aesthetics for a more septic, bio-inclusive and wild alternative.