TRANSFORMING LA CITY HALL

Instructor: Prof. Guvenc Ozel, Benjamin Ennemoser, Gabby Shawcross 

Collabrator: Zhengtao Liu, Risu Na

Location: Los Angeles, US

This project takes the LA City Hall, located in Los Angeles as the experimental object and it is an attempt to apply artistic styles to architectural design by using CNN, which is an artificial intelligence algorithm and it can integrate the artist’s artworks with architectural pictures together. Machine learning technique enables architects to obtain unpredicted results and widely explore the potential of architectural design. 

STYLE TRANSFER MATRIX

AESTHETIC DIRECTION

Original image

Influence Style_Yayoi Kusama

Outcome

Original image

Influence Style_Universal Everything

Outcome

VORONOI SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS

VOLUME TRANSFORMATION

Original model

Boolean Out & Soften

Setback Prototype

VORONOI ON VOLUME EXPERIMENTS

DETAIL DEVELOPMENT

Original Volume

Thicken frame

Frame base

Soften frame

Glass panel

Add hair