A WALK IN LATENT CITY

In the realm of architecture and urban design, to what extent can an understanding of machine learning’s latent space provide a new understanding of context and space within the design process? And through what means is that achieved that responds to a designer’s intuitive approach?

 

My project’s objective is to develop a  three-dimensionalized experience utilizing the 3D model and machine learning model Rhee has currently been developing and interfacing with. My proposal to the research question is that a first-person situation, whether it is VR or simply first-person control, interacts with a designer’s more cognitive understanding of space and shape. The goal is to provide a link between a 3D representation of Montreal’s urban landscape and that of 3D latent space of building form data Jinmo Rhee has developed, all under one singular interactive experience.