BECOMING IMPERMANENCIA

Data visualization, 3d print, biomaterials, machine learning

Exhibitions

Museo Urbano Interactivo del Tecnológico de Monterrey | Puebla, Mexico.

COMMISSION

Atentar desde los códigos , Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro MACQ, Querétaro, México.

Festival Internacional de arte y tecnología 404 , Galeria Central del CENART, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Ciudad de Mexico.

DESCRIPTION

The artwork "becoming impermanencIA" is a collection of biodegradable architectural representations and an audiovisual experience, which explores two central concepts

Redefining a significant moment in the change of constructive and social paradigm of the construction of cities (constructive industrialization and the modern movement ) and embrace understanding architecture through the lens of metabolism, where materials and energy circulate and transform, creating architectural representations that mimic the efficiency and adaptability found in natural systems.

The project focuses on representing a condensed version of modern Latin American architecture. Traditional notions of heritage, shaped by mostly Eurocentric perspectives and guided by authoritative bodies, consider factors such as relevance, ingenuity, exceptional conditions and social and political importance, this project challenges these conventional notions by distilling these values into basic architectural elements such as windows . , gates, doors and facade compositions, which were combined throughout Latin America. By training a machine learning model with image data, information was obtained about the predominant types of facades and their similarities in different regions such as Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

WHAT WE DID

This approach goes beyond the traditional understanding advocated by official bodies, and does not downplay the work of conversations between humans themselves that have created many diverse readings of our world, recognizing the influence of historical biases that arise from specific perspectives. . . Instead, the project proposes an alternative perspective based on architectural speculation and fiction with sophisticated data analysis, using the pattern recognition provided by machine learning, these trainings have been able to propose and reconstruct with the most observed elements of this. style.

With hundreds of facades taken from spaces such as docomomo, Instagram and Google Maps, a tour was also made of the neighborhoods where these architectures were most executed, photos were taken not only of the icon, but of other modern architectures with similar elements but that did not have the same relevance. In collaboration with the Argentine architect Juan Agustín Carpinello, we created a series of data sets. While we discussed the parameters of this selection focused on Latin America, we made some rules to leave as much bias as possible regarding what we were going to feed the intelligence. artificial.

"Modern architecture as heritage, its possible conservation and restoration is specifically a controversial case study as it is an oxymoron: two words that came to have practically opposite meanings. “What could be expected from an (orthodox) modernity that placed in the tabula rasa with respect to the past one of its main ideals? In the architecture of the Modern Movement, social and aesthetic criteria prevailed, while aspects of conservation and permanence were secondary.

The Italian futurists of the early 20th century, responsible for important theoretical references of that modernity, defended an architecture that decidedly opted for expiration and transience as opposed to the desire for permanence or durability that had traditionally reigned in the discipline. They did not want to know anything about the past and assured that the houses would last less than them, so that each generation would have to build their own city, thus guaranteeing a constant renewal of the architectural environment, the maximum futuristic aspiration in relation to the city.
Heritage, history and the past go hand in hand, and futurist manifestos call for mercilessly destroying revered cities and sustaining a relentless fight against the cowardly adoration of the past.”

--- Prieto Gonzalez, Jose Manuel. Modern Heritage and Architectural Culture in Monterrey: Keys to a Disagreement. Chapter I Is a Modern Heritage Possible? Editorial Background of Nuevo León. 2014

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