Recycling Intelligences is an installation exploring how machine learning can enhance architectural intelligence in social housing design. Using a GAN model trained on high-quality Spanish housing proposals, Recycling Intelligences taps into a vast, often-overlooked archive of architectural knowledge. This repository offers insights into housing typologies, coexistence models, and design trends, reimagining housing for diverse populations amid climate challenges. The installation features a 12-square-meter table with 370 dynamically backlit 3D-printed layouts—both original and AI-generated— accompanied by explanations of the AI’s processes. Recycling Intelligences fosters critical engagement with synthetic data, blending human and machine creativity to reframe housing design as a space for innovation and reflection.
Participants
LLUIS ORTEGA, ENRIQUE ROMERO, JULIA CAPOMAGGI, AND NIL BRULLET
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Lluis Ortega, Barcelona, Spain, 1972. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Enrique Romero, Barcelona, Spain, 1966. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Julia Capomaggi, Rosario, Argentina, 1972. Lives and works in Barcelona and Girona, Spain.
Nil Brullet, Barcelona, Spain, 1983. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Authorial Collaborators
Angel García (Model Maker and Digital Fabricator); Roger Adam (Graphic Designer)
Technical Collaborators
Jordi Moya, ILM BCN; Andrés Flajszer
Team
Xavier Prat (Model Maker and Digital Fabricator); Cristina Valle; Miquel Oller
Supporters
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Research Project PID2020-116633RB-I00, funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033; UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; UDG Universitat de Girona; PROTO – Projectes: Tècnica i Organització Research Group; LAMA-ETSAV Laboratorio de Maquetas; IDEAI-UPC – Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center AMB/IMPSOL; Delegazione del Governo della Catalogna in Italia; Ajuntament de Barcelona; Institut Ramon Llull
