A machine designs new Swiss Alpine architecture at the Seoul Biennale

The exhibit at the Seoul Biennale. Hansol Bae/Hanul Lee - The Artificial Swissness exhibit - a larger than life-sized "design brain" developed by EPFL's Media x Design Lab (LDM) - is currently on display at the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, which runs until 31 October 2021. This high-tech machine can generate a virtually infinite number of architectural images of Swiss Alpine cabins. "Our design brain is an experiment about whether machines can design structures," says Professor Jeffrey Huang, head of the LDM. "That is, whether they cannot just recommend music or drive cars, but also create meaningful cultural artifacts, such as architecture with distinct Swiss characteristics." Artificial Swissness will be on display at the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism until 31 October. It was developed by LDM in association with Convergeo, a design agency co-founded by Prof. Huang, and Seoul-based architecture firm SPOA. Infinite architectural images The exhibit is intended to be a continually shifting spatial interface that reveals the inner thoughts of an AI machine trained on 10,000 images of Swiss chalets and Alpine architecture.