​This project investigates how organic systems of repair can be recruited to reconstruct or reimagine orders of space and territories rendered uninhabitable. Influenced by Lebbeus Woods' radical reconstruction, this project resists notions of return or preservation, proposing instead a speculative, cross-scale and cross-material ecology in which damage is encoded and transformed into future spatial intelligence.

 

Taking first an intrinsic approach to defining living - that is, working from the molecules of life that allow emergent, extrinsic qualities of evolution and adaptation - I imagine designing a new class of such molecules adapted for interaction and growth with anthropomass.

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Using diffusion-based monocular depth estimation, fragmented landscapes are reconstructed into 3D geometries, which are then used as a catalytic site input for the design of matching proteins, using  a custom backbone generation tool and  SOTA inverse protein folding algorithms (RFDiffusion and ProteinMPNN). Terrains are therefore not restored to their original state; instead, they are reimagined as dynamic, evolving environments shaped by a synthetic order of growth and adaptation. 

 

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