The site is Mission Junction, otherwise known as the North Industrial District. It is north of downtownLos Angeles (DTLA) and bordered and cut off from adjacent neighborhoods by two railways, the Los Angeles StateHistoric Park, and the LA river. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles and, as its name suggests, primarily occupied by industrial warehouses. This neighborhood is beginning to redefine itself as an exciting and upcoming cultural district as artists collectives, galleries, music venues, restaurants and wineries have begun to move there.I chose the factory that sit on the triangle interchange and considered how to engage in this new development by looking, with augmented eyes, for unique moments in this neighborhood and put forward a series of architectural proposals designed fully in collaboration with our AI network partners.

Because these AI networks must be trained with images in order to learn how to “see,” they can be introduced to architecture much in the same way that we study architecture, that is through images, drawings, photographs, etc. In other words, precedents. But, because machine vision appears to misalign or misinterpret precedents in an entirely novel way – one might say absurd, or uncanny – strange and exciting questions about the role of historical influenceon the production of new objects begin to emerge. We exploited these new potentials of precedent as catalyst to accelerate the generation of the new factory.‍The form of the factory is not fully pregiven in a completed plan, nor the elements of the construction in standardized molds to be filled in with inert matter.  The factory is empowered by artificial intelligence with opportunity and capacity to beself-evolving and self-representing. This sort of corrosion rejuvenises thefactory by introducing uncertainty, changefulness, and spontaneity.

Changing the attribute of stone and steel, the burgeoning of corrosion spread out through the site. Although continuous in form, the corroded matters grow across “broken lines.” At each step, their curvature might inflect, or they might bifurcate or merge. it varies and distributes them following the growth of form. Eventually, the factory becomes the repercussion of the corrosion.

Entwining around each other, or changing direction in unisonto avoid entwinement, every inch of the wall is moving and mutating to establish an inextricable, indivisible relationship between the interior and exterior.

All the possible iterations of interior integrate into one result. Rather than adding together as separate segments, they mutually inflect, in a shared movement tending toward (but never reaching) the plane-filling limit, that of the saturation of their shared ontological plane of cross-construction. Harmoniously, a new blueprint of the factory is born.

Exactly how corrosion eventuates is determined by the result of oxidation reaction, influenced by the factory’s material and spatial characteristics. The work of artificial intelligence, in its encounter with the material, becomes an internal growth factor of the design.