At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Armenia presented an exhibition titled 'Microarchitecture Through AI', focusing on preserving cultural heritage via artificial intelligence. Curated by Marianna Karapetyan, the pavilion emphasizes the threats of climate change, conflict, and neglect on heritage sites. Collaborating with various digital innovation and cultural preservation experts, they utilize a generative AI model to create new architectural forms based on the Armenian Heritage Scanning Project. This AI not only documents but creatively reinterprets traditional motifs into physical artifacts carved from tuff stone, thereby fostering dialogue on cultural identity.
The pavilion brings attention to the challenges facing cultural heritage today, particularly loss through climate change, conflict, and neglect.
By using AI to reinterpret architectural heritage and returning those speculative forms to a traditional material, the exhibition challenges assumptions about authorship, preservation, and the permanence of cultural identity.
Together, they examine how cultural memory can be activated and extended through a dialogue between technology and traditional materials.
The AI generates new spatial compositions that reinterpret the forms, motifs, and material logic of endangered or vanished structures.
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