FundamentAI

FundamentAI views Venice’s distributed foundations as autonomous wetware of the lagoon, giving agency to its complex microbiome in shaping urban evolution. It creates a sense-able aquatic landscape that negotiates the cultural and environmental fluctuations of its surroundings like a living slime mould. FundamentAI integrates advanced micro-3D scanning technologies, pioneers a new autonomous generative AI design platform, and installs a bio-receptive timber foundation system. It creates a synthetic architectural microbiome, evolving collaborative design practices between human and non-human species and bridging the scales of the lagoon and its unique urban microbiome.