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.
Participants
ECOLOGICSTUDIO
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPE LAB, INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY
URBAN MORPHOGENESIS LAB, THE BARTLETT UCL
LONDON, UK; INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA; TURIN, ITALY
Claudia Pasquero, Moncalieri, Italy, 1974. Lives and works in London (UK), Innsbruck (Austria) and Turin (Italy).
Marco Poletto, Torino, Italy, 1975. Lives and works in London, UK, Innsbruck, Austria, and Turin, Italy.
Authorial Collaborators
Synthetic Landscape Lab, Innsbruck University: Shengyu Meng, Haoyi Chen, Xiao Wang; The Bartlett UCL: Emmouil Zaroukas
Technical Collaborators
Prototyping course, Synthetic Landscape Lab, Innsbruck Univeristy; Students: Aydemir Betül, Alhosin Sara, Braun Anna Maria Monika, Becker Karl David, Chidi-Umeh Jahmin Ikechukwu, Demir Maxim Tesan, Esteba Jenna Celine, Hensel Louis Ben, Hoffmann Julia Rebecca, Heier Julian Mathis, Iderhoff Pia Joana, Juen Laura, Landerer Melissa, Lang Viktoria, Maier Manfred Johannes Kaspar, Mülke Fritz, Malfertheiner Manuel, Medici Maria, Obwegeser Katharina, Peisser Emanuel, Riess Nikolas Alexej, Re Alessandra Clara, Röhm Annika Schirin, Schemmel Daniel, Schmider Philip, Schlöricke Josef Adrian, Streit Florence, Tassotti Giulia, Thaler Benjamin, Thurner Michael
Team
Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto, Shengyu Meng, Haoyi Chen, Jasper Zehetgruber, Beatriz Gonzalez Arechiga, Xiao Wang, Emmanouil Zaroukas, Alessandra Poletto, Francesca Turi, Mika Gabriel Shulz, Micheal Uterberger
Thanks
Peter Trummer, Bo Liu, Maria Kuptsova, Vadim Smatkin, Terezia Greskova
Supporters
Innsbruck University; ecoLogicStudio
