DS02

Latent Dreams of the Future Past


High-resolution generative AI image-making tools are disrupting industries worldwide. Marketed as dream machines, they use datasets of billions of image/text pairs sampled from the internet to explore human creativity. While the internet has become an ingrained part of our lives, its underlying space—the hidden connections between ideas, concepts, and narratives—looms infinitely larger. With the help of AI image-making tools, this latent space can be explored, unlocking ways to think about materials, design, and architecture. Architects are storytellers, using images, drawings, and models to create narratives about ideas. DS2 emphasises making as a critical counterpoint to digital generative design, interrogating and developing AI inspired research through modelling, scripting, and making to test geometry and develop knowledge. The unit aims to explore the latent space this year, in search of "new myths" for architecture. Through fictions and storytelling techniques, they will question the ethics of these AI image production tools, exploring ideas through a visual narrative of images/

  • Adam Holloway

    Elliot Rogosin

    Esther Rubio Madroñal

  • Ran Xiao

    Khaled Al Bashir (Forensic Architects)

    Elliot Mayer (Make)

    Fareed Fareed ( Foster and Partners)

    Aled Evans (Burwell Architects)

    Subrena Chhatwal ( EPR)

    Sonal Veerabhadra ( PLP)

    Haen Suk Yi (PLP)

    Elliot Krause (Wilkinson Eyre Architects)

    Elfed Samuel (Squint Opera)

    Theodora Radcliffe (Design Engine)

    Jack Young (CITA)

    Andrew Evans

    Harry Court

    Michal Maksymiszyn

    Toby Shew

    Mike Halliwell

    Owen Pearce

  • Mohamed Alsehali, Michael Bladen, Patrycja Borak, Allen Chan, Hanna Chitgar, William Dewar, Nurul Rihana K K Sihabutheen, Martha Kanellopoulou, Imrul Kayes, Carlson Hiu Tsun Kwan, Rose Lin, Nicolas Martinez, Neil Nageshkar, Daniel Pal

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan - Resi-Rewilding - A residential rewilding project and a new vision residential prototype of Hong Kong. Imagine walking down the street, surrounded by tower buildings that seem to block out the sun and fresh air. The apartment

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan - Resi-Rewilding - A residential rewilding project and a new vision residential prototype of Hong Kong. Imagine walking down the street, surrounded by tower buildings that seem to block out the sun and fresh air. The apartments inside are small and lack living quality. Despite being surrounded by countryside, it can be hard to feel connected to nature when so many buildings and people are packed into a small area. By integrating nature into the residential environment, this project will provide respite from the hustle and high density of city life.

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan

Carlson, Hiu Tsun Kwan

Nurul Rihana K K Sihabutheen - [H]Arbor Collective - A future-resilient framework for community housing - The housing market has become a competitive sport, whether the winners makes the money and losers are first-time or low-income buyers. As rent s

Nurul Rihana K K Sihabutheen - [H]Arbor Collective - A future-resilient framework for community housing - The housing market has become a competitive sport, whether the winners makes the money and losers are first-time or low-income buyers. As rent soars, more Londoners are taking up residence on the city’s canal which also comes with some downsides. Imagine a new way of living that invests in communities instead of real estate, where houseboat owners have a more permanent place to moor while engaging with different communities, creating a social identity that is adaptable for the future.

- Snippets of Daily Life in [H]Arbor Collective

- Snippets of Daily Life in [H]Arbor Collective

- Public Realm

- Public Realm

William Dewar - Arboreal Euston - Applying biophilic design principles to a sustainable glulam timber structure and experimenting with the application of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion AI in the design process, I have created a forest-like environme

William Dewar - Arboreal Euston - Applying biophilic design principles to a sustainable glulam timber structure and experimenting with the application of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion AI in the design process, I have created a forest-like environment within a mainline railway station in great need of rejuvenation, fusing with Grimshaw’s HS2 design and integrated with the surrounding neighbourhood, creating a sense of arrival, providing garden refuges to reduce the stress of travellers and encourage wildlife, respectful of the station’s grand past and yet looking forward to a biophilic future.

William Dewar

William Dewar

William Dewar

William Dewar

Daniel Pal - Garden of Tethys - The project addresses the decline in tourism in the western oases of Egypt, which has resulted in significant job losses in the local community. The project is designed to provide touristic functions aimed at offering

Daniel Pal - Garden of Tethys - The project addresses the decline in tourism in the western oases of Egypt, which has resulted in significant job losses in the local community. The project is designed to provide touristic functions aimed at offering a unique experience to visitors. The building’s design incorporates modern technology to access the underground aquifer that lies beneath the Sahara, which was filled billions of years ago when the Sahara was an ocean named Tethys. The project’s success is expected to bring economic benefits to the local community by generating employment opportunities and contributing to the local economy.

Daniel Pal - Exterior View

Daniel Pal - Exterior View

Daniel Pal - 3D Section

Daniel Pal - 3D Section

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